MeowMeow

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Hailed “the Queen of Chanson” by Berliner Zeitung, the post-post-modern diva’s unique brand of subversive and original music theatre has hypnotised, inspired, and seduced audiences across the globe, from London’s West End to Carnegie Hall, to the Hollywood Bowl and the Sydney Opera House. Her award-winning works have been curated by David Bowie, Pina Bausch, Mikhail Baryshnikov and numerous international arts festivals.The stage-diving tragi-comedienne has performed her ‘orchestrated chaos’ with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony amongst others. A frequent guest and collaborator with the ‘little orchestra’ Pink Martini including at the Philharmonie Berlin, Royal Albert Hall and with the LA Phil, Meow Meow specialises in Weimar and French chanson repertoire as well as jump-cut explorations of Schubert and Schumann and contemporary and original work. She toured internationally with Barry Humhpries, the Australian Chamber Orchestra in their acclaimed Weimar Cabaret which had an extended season at the Barbican.Recent highlights include her Carnegie Hall debut with ‘Sequins and Satire, Divas and Disruptors: The Wild Women of the Weimar Republic’, with Broadway World calling her a “tornado of talent” who “set Carnegie Hall on fire”. 2025 saw a series of performances of her new show ‘It’s come to this’ at London’s Soho Theatre, and she has just completed a new work ‘Meow Meow’s Red Shoes’, the third in her HC Andersen trilogy with director Kate Champion of DV8 and Force Majeure. It was nominated for six Green Room Awards and took home the awards for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Composition and Sound Design.She is guest artist with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal and theatre credits include Titania in Emma Rice’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe, Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with the Royal Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall, La Maîtresse – a role created for her in Michel Legrand and Kneehigh’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in London's West End, and Jenny in Die Dreigroschen Oper with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.Meow Meow is a Fellow of New York University’s Center for Ballet.

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  • Sweeney Todd (Mrs Lovett)

    Birmingham Repertory Theatre
    Jul 2026 - Aug 2026
    • Offsetting such fury is Meow Meow as landlady Mrs Lovett, a witty study in venality and opportunism. That she has a cartoonish swagger is not to underestimate her singing which, as it is for the whole cast, is tremendous throughout.

    • Her remarkable voice showcases incredible versatility on numbers such as a particularly phenomenal ‘The Worst Pies In London’ and a truly spectacular rendition of ‘A Little Priest’. Over-the-top, erratic and exaggerated, Meow Meow is a force to be reckoned with on stage. Her chemistry with Karimloo made for an intense but always captivating dynamic, but Meow Meow proved scene-stealing no matter who she shared the stage with. An utterly outstanding performance, Meow Meow proves to be one of the best things in a brilliant production.

    • As Mrs Lovett, Meow Meow blew me away with a really fresh take on such an iconic role. She perfectly juxtaposed a hard, sinister exterior with many moments of utterly brilliant dark humour; a real favourite of the audience throughout the night. Her tenderness with Tobias was believable and yet she was clearly ruthless in her chase of Todd and dreams of the future. Wicked in the best way possible!

    • The unexpectedly knockout turn here though comes from Meow Meow as Mrs Lovett, bringing echoes of the great Angela Lansbury to her ditzy demented baker and turning in a genuinely brilliant performance. The Australian actress, dancer and cabaret artist wrings every drop of humour from the role, while also conveying the twisted villainess that lies beneath and flipping between wacky and wicked in the blink of an eye, creating some genuinely chilling menace.

    • Meow Meow is fabulously unhinged as Mrs Lovett. Now, we know Meow Meow is eccentric (everyone expects that already!), but the beauty here is that she changes the temperature of the show. Without her, Sweeney Todd risks becoming entirely bleak with no breathing room. She’s chaotic and unpredictable in that ‘kamikaze cabaret’ style we love her for...