My Grandfather was a Drag Queen!

Cabaret • Music

World Premiere

Paige Mulholland never met her grandfather, but she hears that they're a lot alike -- except that he was a drag queen, one of Australia's first openly gay millionaires and part of Sydney's organised crime scene, and she's just a drag groupie with a love of sequins. But they share a talent for falling in love with gay men, & that's something, right?

After a successful run in Platform Academy's Brief Encounters in Adelaide Fringe 2018, My Grandfather was a Drag Queen returns this year with more songs, more salacious stories, and more sparkles than ever!

Mixing true stories of her family history and queer culture in the 70's with cheeky wit and plenty of camp, musical fun, Paige's My Grandfather was a Drag Queen is an unmissable cabaret by Adelaide's own Paige Mulholland and Platform Academy.

Presented by: Platform Academy

Platform Academy was founded in 2013, by the highly acclaimed teacher and performer, Kim Spargo, to develop a unique interdisciplinary and collaborative program to expand the opportunities and experience of emerging artists in Adelaide. Since then Platform has gone from strength to strength establishing annual involvement in Adelaide’s Fringe Festival, workshops with Industry professionals, high-level courses in Audition Preparation & Music Industry, Music Theatre Classes, Individual lessons in vocals, dance, drama, stagecraft, song-writing, theory and full-scale stage productions and performances. Brief Encounters is the newest project we have developed. This opportunity to enables students to create a small show of their own while being supported/mentored by industry professionals.