Thomas Jaspers

Writer, Director & Producer
Kim, Trude, Carlotta, Healthy Harold

‘A national treasure’ – The Herald Sun

Thomas Jaspers first pranced onto the comedy scene fifteen years ago and quickly made a name for himself, just as his father always warned he would. Jaspers has become something of a fixture at festivals all over Australia having performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival, Sydney Mardi Gras, Adelaide Feast Festival, Brisbane Melt, Melbourne Fringe, Perth Fringe, Sydney Fringe, Adelaide Fringe and the Melbourne Writers Festival. He also had the pleasure of opening for Joel Creasy at the New York Comedy

Festival.

Thomas is well known for his work as one of the warped minds behind the cult Melbourne drag comedy trio Granny Bingo in which he plays the miserable but loveable octogenarian Aussie battler Edith Vale. As well as their 10 year run of monthly sold out bingo nights at the Comedy Republic on Bourke Street in Melbourne, the grannies have starred in several of their own comedy shows including A Visit With Nan In A Caravan which won the coveted Golden Gibbo award for it’s inaugural season at Trades Hall for the 2017 Melbourne Comedy Festival before touring to Adelaide’s Garden Of Unearthly Delights and returning to Melbourne for a season at Arts Centre Melbourne. Jaspers can also be heard hosting one of Australia’s highest rating queer podcasts The Gays Are Revolting.

Thomas dedicates his performance to his Grandmother Marg who, when we had our first run of this show, could be found zipping all over the south- eastern suburbs of Melbourne in her electric scooter handing out flyers and of whom he has fond childhood memories, looking tizzy with a with a frizzy perm, standing over the kitchen sink with a cigarette in one hand and wine in the other, catching up on gossip.

Art Simone

Kath, Trude, Frantique

‘One of Australia’s most prominent LGBTQ+ Game changers’ - The Australian.

Logie and triple ACRA Award nominated Art Simone has claimed her position at the forefront of the Aussie entertainment industry and this down-under drag diva is just getting started. Art first stepped into drag in the early 2010s and has gone from strength to strength as one of Australia’s most in demand live performers. From touring extensively to representing Australia on the world stage, Art has brought her quintessential style and humour to literally thousands of events.

Focused on ensuring drag reaches regional Australia, Art has been celebrated for creating safe spaces for the LGBTQIA+ community and ensuring that pride is shared and celebrated where it’s needed most. It is this spirit of adventure that scored Art her own series on WOWPresents Plus - Highway To Heel!

Starring in the inaugural season of Stan’s RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, Art’s talent was shared with a whole new audience and immediately became a fan favourite. Bringing unique looks, showcasing her incredible talent and delivering the ultimate one- liners. As the series’ runner-up, she’s since welcomed her new fans, jumped into international touring, featured on Have You Been Paying Attention, Would I Lie To You, Spicks and Specks, In Our Blood, The Cook Up with Adam Liaw, the Kath & Kim 20th Anniversary Special plus headlined her Australian live show As Seen On TV.

With her podcast Concealed with Art Simone now in it’s fourth season on the iHeart Radio network, debut book Life Is Art as well as the recently released anthology Drag Queens Down Under and digital series Kick-Ons, you won’t have to go far to get your fix, and one thing's for sure - drag will always be ART for the incredible Art Simone.

Jemima Handful

Sharon

Jemima Handful is a drag artist, dancer and choreographer based in Melbourne, Australia with over 15 years of performing under her wig.

She’s performed locally and internationally with the Melbourne Ballet Company, Projection Dance Company and Opera Australia. Moving into the drag industy Jemima’s work has been seen across Australia and Europe including Milkshake Festival in Amsterdam, Drag’d Out in Beechworth, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and iconic Fitzroy drag venue Vau d’vile Drag Cabaret which won her choreographer of the year at the Melbourne Drag Awards.

Jemima is thrilled to be making her Fountain Lakes debut as Sharon, so strap on your mango espadrilles and let’s have a boogie!

Scott Brennan

Brett, Gary, Kel, Con

Scott Brennan has been appearing on Aussie screens and stages for years. He is well known for

his work on the early 00’s program skitHOUSE as well as his appearances on Comedy Inc, Stand Up

Australia, Upper Middle Bogan, Lowdown, Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey, Bogan Pride, Spicks &

Specks, Rove Live, The Secret Life Of Us, Blue Heelers, Stingers, Welcher & Welcher and for his

portrayal of local newspaper editor Josh Burns on Neighbours.

Stage appearances include Spontaneous Broadway, Life - Get it up ya (which was also performed at the Edinburgh Fringe), Code Beige, Glen Bush; Teenage Superstar (for which he received a Moosehead grant) and Very Very Scary. He was a regular panellist on the hit podcast Talking Poofy and spent many years acting as a mentor and director for young comedians through the Comedy Festival’s “LolSquad” program.

He is a member of the cult comedy trio Granny Bingo, who perform sell out shows monthly, as well as touring festivals. In 2017, their Melbourne Comedy Festival show A Visit With Nan In A Caravan won the Golden Gibbo Award. Brennan is also an active voice over artist, appearing in commercials for Hungry Jacks and Coles Supermarkets.

He is a massive fan of David Bowie.

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