TransMasculine Cabaret, Starring Vulva Va-Voom

WINNER:
- New York City Fringe 2024: Touring: Venue "Audience Choice Award"
- Asheville Fringe Fest 2023: "Artist That Pushed Boundaries Between Art Forms"
- Tampa Int'l Fringe Fest 2023: "Venue Choice Award"
- Tampa Int'l Fringe Fest 2023: The "Social Good" Award

NYC REVIEWERS SAID:

"Smart and provocative show [...] Packs a wallop [...] Fiercely unapologetic [...] This cabaret is indeed a VIP experience!"
- Lavender After Dark

“A wonderful performer […] beautiful and talented […] The most powerful voice we've heard […] A poignant personal story […] Go for the heartwarming story, stay for the sheer talent of a performer that will bowl you over…”
- Young-Howze Theater Journal

PLOT DESCRIPTION:

"TragiComic trans-identifying confessional" and "obscene, maniacal song-and-dance burlesque comedian" seem incompatible, but Vulva Va-Voom (They/Them) has combined stranger, stickier elements onstage. The gritty nightclub headliner inhabits bizarrely imaginative world-building...but that world is impacted by politics.

Who gets to define whether someone’s a drag queen, king, or in-between? Vulva has mostly appeared onstage as femme—spirit-gummed beards and nipples are harder to scrape off at 4am—but does femme presentation invalidate nonbinary credibility?

As Vulva executes a live “female drag to male” makeover, they explore labels, identity, and their dire real-world experiences when “laughter as a constant coping mechanism” fell short. More intimate than their usual off-the-charts raucous debauchery, this piece combines vulnerability with absurdity, and— as usual— absinthe with uppers. Hardships, meet hilarity.