Themme Fatale is is an award-winning drag, sideshow, and circus performer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
An accomplished performer and producer, as well as a published visual artist, writer, speaker, and mentor, Themme Fatale (pronounced like Them Fatale) has made a name for themselves both locally and internationally for their unique blend of art, activism, and advocacy.
They are known for works that foster riotous Queer joy (with an emphasis on riot), serving high skill, high camp circus absurdism and dangerous sideshow stunts, and bravely proving that hot people can be funny too. Offstage they advocate for accessibility in the performing arts, and for the rights and safety of LGBTQIA+ people.
Offstage, Themme Fatale swaps out dangerous stunts for dangerous ideas, like advocating for accessibility in the arts. Not just chronically ill but a chronic over-achiever as well, they are also a published visual artist, writer, speaker, and mentor, and since being disabled by Long-COVID, spend much of their time making educational content alongside their cat Raoul.
They are the founder of Clean Air Naarm, a project that provides free access to air purifiers for artists, in order to make the performing arts a safer and more accessible place for both artists and audiences.
Themme Fatale is a graduate of the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), the co-creator of multi-award-winning Le Freak and KillJoy, producer of the perpetually sold-out Saddle Qlub, founding cast member of Gender Euphoria, and have featured onstage as part of Dark MOFO, YUMMY, Blunderland, and all over the festival circuit. They were the recipient of The Women*s Circus Still I Rise Artist residency, a contributor to the Melbourne Pride Generations Project, and recently the Transgender Victoria Community Development Fund for their durational project Trans Day of Rest.
They were a featured speaker on drag and gender for Sydney World Pride 2023, and their work has been featured in the Museum of Contemporary art, Melbourne Fashion Week, the NGV, Arts Centre Melbourne, the BBC, Archer Magazine, Frankie Magazine, numerous independent galleries, academic texts, and twice shared on social media by Adrienne Maree Brown, which they always insist on including.