59 min
S2 Episode 7- Victoria Falconer Company
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- Performing Arts
IT’S OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! And no better way to celebrate than to have the iconic cabaret artist and musical director Victoria Falconer on the show. We dive into Victoria’s career as a cabaret artist, travelling the world with her feminist power trio, her flavour of musical direction and the incredible People of Cabaret initiative. Join Tiana as she rides solo this week (Giorgia was busy being a superstar in Cry Baby rehearsals!), and hear about the lady who can seriously do it all!
A little bit more about Victoria:
Victoria Falconer is a cabaret artist, multi-instrumentalist, theatre maker and musical director. Her most recent projects include co-creating and hosting Smashed: The Brunch Party, a femme-fronted, fiercely diverse drag cabaret show that received 5 star reviews and won a Pick of the Fringe Award for its debut season at Adelaide Fringe, whilst concurrently performing in The Boy Who Talked To Dogs, a co-production by Slingsby Theatre and State Theatre South Australia for Adelaide Festival 2021. She is co-creator & performer with acclaimed feminist firebrands Fringe Wives Club, whose debut show Glittery Clittery has been presented on stages including Southbank Centre, Soho Theatre (London), Griffin Theatre (Sydney), Darwin Festival, Bats Theatre (Wellington) and at Edinburgh Fringe, where it received the Spirit of the Fringe Award in 2018.
Victoria is a founding director for The People of Cabaret, an initiative formed in 2020 to amplify and advocate for artists who identify as Indigenous and/or Bla(c)k and/or people of colour working in cabaret, circus, burlesque and associated disciplines. In their first six months of existence, they have curated a two week residency of shows at Darlinghurst Theatre Company, presented an online extravaganza for Melbourne Fringe (winning their Spirit of the Fringe Award), and hosted/produced their first Sydney Festival show We Are Here. Victoria also leads the Mentorship Program, empowering and upskilling IBPOC artists across the country.
She has twice received the Best Cabaret Award at Adelaide Fringe (2018 & 2011). In 2019 she was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award (Once, Darlinghurst Theatre Company) and a Green Room Award (Glittergrass, Malthouse Theatre) for musical direction. Other MD credits include Insane Animals (HOME Manchester), Courtney Act’s Under The Covers (Underbelly, London) Unroyal Variety (Hackney Empire), Sasquatch The Opera (Summerhall, Edinburgh) and Oklahoma! (Black Swan State Theatre Company).
If you would like to follow Victoria’s work, you can find her @victoria_falconer on instagram, Victoria Falconer on Facebook, or at www.maestramusic.org/profile/victoria-falconer for her artist page. Additionally this is the link to the mentorship program with People of Cabaret https://www.thepeopleofcabaret.com/the-mentorship
We'd love to hear your thoughts from this episode on our instagram @companypod, or Facebook Company Podcast.
Hosted and Created by Giorgia Kennedy and Tiana Catalano
Edited and Produced by David Duketis
Music by David Duketis
Graphic Design by David Duketis
IT’S OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! And no better way to celebrate than to have the iconic cabaret artist and musical director Victoria Falconer on the show. We dive into Victoria’s career as a cabaret artist, travelling the world with her feminist power trio, her flavour of musical direction and the incredible People of Cabaret initiative. Join Tiana as she rides solo this week (Giorgia was busy being a superstar in Cry Baby rehearsals!), and hear about the lady who can seriously do it all!
A little bit more about Victoria:
Victoria Falconer is a cabaret artist, multi-instrumentalist, theatre maker and musical director. Her most recent projects include co-creating and hosting Smashed: The Brunch Party, a femme-fronted, fiercely diverse drag cabaret show that received 5 star reviews and won a Pick of the Fringe Award for its debut season at Adelaide Fringe, whilst concurrently performing in The Boy Who Talked To Dogs, a co-production by Slingsby Theatre and State Theatre South Australia for Adelaide Festival 2021. She is co-creator & performer with acclaimed feminist firebrands Fringe Wives Club, whose debut show Glittery Clittery has been presented on stages including Southbank Centre, Soho Theatre (London), Griffin Theatre (Sydney), Darwin Festival, Bats Theatre (Wellington) and at Edinburgh Fringe, where it received the Spirit of the Fringe Award in 2018.
Victoria is a founding director for The People of Cabaret, an initiative formed in 2020 to amplify and advocate for artists who identify as Indigenous and/or Bla(c)k and/or people of colour working in cabaret, circus, burlesque and associated disciplines. In their first six months of existence, they have curated a two week residency of shows at Darlinghurst Theatre Company, presented an online extravaganza for Melbourne Fringe (winning their Spirit of the Fringe Award), and hosted/produced their first Sydney Festival show We Are Here. Victoria also leads the Mentorship Program, empowering and upskilling IBPOC artists across the country.
She has twice received the Best Cabaret Award at Adelaide Fringe (2018 & 2011). In 2019 she was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award (Once, Darlinghurst Theatre Company) and a Green Room Award (Glittergrass, Malthouse Theatre) for musical direction. Other MD credits include Insane Animals (HOME Manchester), Courtney Act’s Under The Covers (Underbelly, London) Unroyal Variety (Hackney Empire), Sasquatch The Opera (Summerhall, Edinburgh) and Oklahoma! (Black Swan State Theatre Company).
If you would like to follow Victoria’s work, you can find her @victoria_falconer on instagram, Victoria Falconer on Facebook, or at www.maestramusic.org/profile/victoria-falconer for her artist page. Additionally this is the link to the mentorship program with People of Cabaret https://www.thepeopleofcabaret.com/the-mentorship
We'd love to hear your thoughts from this episode on our instagram @companypod, or Facebook Company Podcast.
Hosted and Created by Giorgia Kennedy and Tiana Catalano
Edited and Produced by David Duketis
Music by David Duketis
Graphic Design by David Duketis
59 min