Comedy + Poetry Tour
Internationally-acclaimed performance artist Alok Vaid-Menon will perform a series of special live shows across Australia and New Zealand this September. is live in [insert city] this September. Supporting them on their Australian dates will be Travis Alabanza.
Alok Vaid-Menon’s (they/them) work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition.
In 2021 they headlined the New York Comedy Festival and in 2022 they will be headlined the Just for Laughs Festival in Vancouver and will perform at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2022.
They are the author of Beyond the Gender Binary (2020) which has been described as a “clarion call for a new approach to gender in the 21st century” and the poetry books Femme in Public (2017) and Your Wound / My Garden (2021).
On-screen, they recently wrapped the Netflix/Blumhouse feature film ABSOLUTE DOMINION. They have also appeared in the Netflix docu-series Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s late-night sketch series Random Acts of Flyness and the documentary The Trans List.
*Sydney show presented in association with Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
*New late show added in Melbourne due to demand.
🚨 Masks are strongly encouraged and will be provided free of charge upon entry to the venue.