Drag, clown and cabaret.

I make and collaborate on deliciously deviant drag-clown personas that are alive, fully realised and responsive to the space, place and people I am with. See some of them below…

Oasissy, Cooper giving Biff a piggy back. Dressed identically, monobrows, green parkas, a peek of Union Jack boxers and bear legs.

Oasissy 

Anarchic drag duo Oasissy, aka Kirsty Biff Nicolson and Annabel Cooper, are a riotous cabaret reclamation of their problematic childhood heroes Oasis.

“Batshit bold and fantastically fresh - Oasissy offer up the best of late night satirical comedy at The Fringe”- Binge Fringe

“Monobrowed Mayhem with a lairy twist” - The List

Created with bursary support from Surge and performed on cabaret stages throughout the UK including their flagship fringe night Oasissy’s Late Night Cabaret at Gilded Balloons Patter Hoose. 

Oasissy devised and performed the drag clown theatre show Don’t Look Back in Anger Babes at the Blundagardens, Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

Named “Ones to watch” in The List 2020.

Oasissy create joyful, cathartic and unexpected performance.

Their short film ‘Portrait of Oasissy on Fire” created with Ania Urbanowska was selected by SQIFF and Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival.

Follow us on Instagram @weareoasissy

Photo credit: Tiu Makonnen

t.A .T.u - A tribute

Devised and Performed by Biff and Lars Neupert for Anatomy, Dive Queer Party, Queer Theory and Pollyanna in 2018.

Drag artists Lars and Biff are hand in hand and attempting high femme in school skirts that are ‘too short’. They weave t.A.T.u.’s greatest hits into a choral polyphonyic score. Think a lesbian-fantasy-clown incantation. Think rage, teenage angst, Russian pop and scissoring.

With live improvised vocals, embodied movement, and a swirling soundscape it is a joyous, uncomfortable response to media sensationalism, sexualisation of young queer bodies, and internalised misogyny.

photo credit: Rich Dyson

The Pick Up Artist

“a slick trick dude” - Mary Brennan, Clown Cabaret, Surge Festival

a sleazy drag clown persona created in response to men rights activists and pick up culture. created with support from Surge and Clown Cabaret Scotland.