Nancy Nutter – Life's a drag, and the worlds a stage

Nancy is a theatre maker, singer, and community organiser

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Nancy’s artistry expands through visual, performative, musical realms. She is one half of the piano cabaret duo THE DAMES, the lead vocalist of trans-femme punk band THE BRICKS, and head of performance at TRACEY. She co-creates TREASON cabaret club night, and co-curates the performance stage at WHOLE FESTIVAL.

Nancy teaches gender performance in various workshops, including the EMBODIED DISRUPTION series, KÖNIG, and at ARTHAUS. They are a costume maker, makeup artist, and drag star. A graphic designer, film maker, tattoo artist, and a painter.

Performance

The stage is ritual space for manifesting new reality, and the whole worlds a stage.

Nancy performs in drag, as a singer, and as a dancer, in club nights, theatrical shows, and cabarets. For as long as she has been performing on stages, she has been organising stages on which to perform. Nancy developing her practice, Nancy has also developed a comprehensive theory of drag and pedagogy for teaching about gender performance.

Visual

Alongside performance, Nancy practices a wide range of visual arts. She has been painting for as long as she could hold a brush, which has since flourished into various forms of visual creativity.