About Us
Company
Overview
Vulva Va-Voom & Co. is an innovative performing arts company based in Ybor City-- the historic arts district that was absorbed by Tampa, Florida in the 1920s. We tour the United States, presenting short engagements of award-winning scripted cabaret. Although most productions feature one writer/singer/dancer/actor prominently, our team is made up of brilliant artists and technicians with a variety of behind-the-scenes talents.
Our inimitable "Neo-Vaudeville" style shows tend to incorporate some or all of the following: song-and-dance, scripted narrative, audience crowd-work, stand-up patter, burlesque strip-tease, drag, multi-media projection, puppetry, and unholy pagan ritual.
Artist
Background
Vulva Va-Voom (they/them/their) is a "legit" theater triple-threat gone bad. Very, very bad. The core theme of their work as a playwright is “High-brow culture and low-brow humor need never be contradictory.”
Classically trained for ballet, tap, jazz, modern, pointe, operatic soprano, Broadway belt, Shakespeare, and more, their early career was predictable enough. Once upon a time, their performance resume included every respectable professional company in west central Florida. But somewhere around 2005, they leapt into the underground world of experimental "alt" nightclub cabaret-- burlesque, comedy, drag, and sideshow-- and never looked back.
During their years on the nightclub circuit, they became more deeply immersed in vibrant alt-nerd subcultures where no one cares about strangers' judgments. Among science-fiction convention panelists, Rocky Horror casts, renaissance fest caravans, Gothic-Industrial clubgoers, and the ever-present hot bisexual anime Wiccans, Vulva cast off any remaining expectations of mainstream culture.
They also discovered that performing in bars and restaurants comes with a curse: upscale "white tablecloth" venues understand their material's literary and cultural references, but cannot tolerate filth. Meanwhile, "frat bro" dive bars are thrilled by bawdy comedy, but completely fail to understand the point of many pieces. Vulva still regularly appears as a guest soloist in colleagues' variety shows, but wears the "nightclub producer" hat more rarely.
In 2018, they were introduced to the intelligent, open-minded audiences of the international experimental performing arts festival circuit. ❤️