About Meow Meow
Australia
Meow Meow’s (CBA ’25) unique brand of subversive and sublime entertainment has hypnotized, inspired and thrilled audiences worldwide from London’s West End to Lincoln Centre New York, to the Hollywood Bowl, to the Sydney Opera House. Her original music theatre works have been commissioned by David Bowie, Pina Bausch and Baryshnikov amongst others. She is guest artist with Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal and with orchestra she specializes in Weimar and French chanson repertoire as well as jump-cut explorations of Schubert and Schumann. Her album “Hotel Amour” with Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale was ranked in the Times UK Top 100 albums of 2019.
The stage-diving tragi-comedienne has performed her “orchestrated chaos” “Meow’s Pandemonium” with The London Philharmonic, Seattle, Sydney, Bergen, Vancouver and San Francisco Symphonies amongst others. Her theatre credits include on the West End in London, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe, Jenny in Die Dreigroschen Oper with the London Philharmonic in Paris and London, Anna in Die Sieben Todsünden at the Konzerthaus in Berlin and a critically acclaimed Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls at Royal Albert Hall. She has played Pegleg in Tom Wait’s The Black Rider for Orchestra Victoria, and Walton’s Facade and Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale for Melbourne Symphony.
Meow has made numerous award-winning original music-theatre works which have been presented at Southbank Centre London, Edinburgh Festival, Shakespeares Globe, the Sydney Opera House and international arts festivals. She has created “fantastical history” song cycles for crumbling theatres, and bespoke civic events including for the 50 years since Sergeant Pepper in Liverpool UK – involving the city’s brass bands, a “riot” and a requiem in a graveyard. She has performed at Hollywood Bowl, Royal Albert Hall and Berlin Philharmonic with Pink Martini and her most recent original theatre work was presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). In 2024 she had her Carnegie Hall debut with her piece “The Wild Women of Weimar” and then as performer and writer on Olivier Award winning choreographer Arthur Pita’s creation of Kafka’s A Hunger Artist with former Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson MBE for Oxford University, the Royal Ballet and the 100 years since Kafka’s death. “brilliantly embodies a new kind of performance art,” The New Yorker
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