LE GATEAU CHOCOLAT

Le Gateau Chocolat’s work spans drag, cabaret, opera, musical theater, children’s theater, and live art. His previous works include Le Gateau Chocolat (2011), I Chocolat (2012), In Drag (2013 Royal Festival Hall comission) and BLACK (2014 Homotopia commission), which toured with music ensemble Psappha in 2017. His children’s show Duckie was included in the Guardian’s Six of the Best Shows for Children of the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His production ICONS toured to Sydney Festival, Wales Millennium Centre, Soho Theatre, and Underbelly Southbank, and was presented with accompaniment from the Little Coco Orchestra (an ensemble formed entirely of women of color). THEATRE: Rufus Norris’ Threepenny Opera (National Theatre); Feste in Emma Rice’s Twelfth Night at the Globe (2017); The Gate Theatre and ENO’s Effigies of Wickedness (2018); Daddy Brubeck, Sweet Charity (Donmar Warehouse, 2019); Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The First Act (London’s Barbican Theatre, 2019); featured cast member of cabaret and circus La Clique and La Soiree. OPERA: with Julian Phillips (Varjak Paw, Royal Opera House and tour); Jocelyn Pook (Anxiety Fanfare, Wigmore Hall and tour); Orlando Gough (Imago, Glyndebourne); Porgy & Bess, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. He appeared in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival in 2019, attracting global headlines for the reaction to his participation as a black drag artist.