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Brendan de la Hay

Birth Place: Sydney, Australia

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Award winning entertainer, tv personality, performance artist, costumier and fashion designer. Recent works include: Love Ball 3 (Susanne Bartsch, New York), All Together Now (Judge, Channel 7/Endemol Shine), Candide (Production Design, Sydney Phil Choirs/Sydney Opera House), The Philosopher’s Strip, A Harry Potter Burlesque (Host, Oxford Art Factory), Funny Girl (Costume Design, SSO/Sydney Opera House) CAKE (Production Design, Adelaide Cabaret Festival), Lola Montez (Costume Supervisor, Riverside Theatre), Bridal Variations (Wearable Art Installation, Sherman Centre for Culture & Ideas/Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences), The Bleeding Bride (Performance Art, Art Gallery NSW/Queer Art After Hours), Secret Garden Festival (Headliner), Vogue Australia (Stylist, cover shoot & editorial), Alice in Wonderland (Stylist, Sydney Festival), Miracle City (Art Department, Sydney Opera House), Menzies Research Centre 75th Anniversary Dinner (Event Design, Old Parliament House), BENT 101 (Art Director, 7Plus), Guilty Pleasures Cabaret & Burlesque Festival (Performer), Mardi Gras Sydney (Costume Design), Egyptian Mummies (Costume Design, British Museum/Sydney Powerhouse Museum), Cosi Fan Tutte (Costume Design, Sydney Conservatorium of Music), Into The Woods (Costume Design, Australian Institute of Music), Paul in Kiss Me Kate (Performer, Squabbalogic, Everest Theatre), video clip Pattern by Nocturnal Tapes (Performer), Spectrum Now Festival (Roving Performance Artist), Wonderful Town (Production Design, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs/Sydney Opera House), Risqué Revue (Costume Design, Slide Sydney), Into the Woods (Costume Design, Australian Institute of Music), Victoriana! (Production & Event Design, St Paul’s College), Little Black Dress Exhibition (Stylist, Sydney Fair), Rodeo Queen (Prop Stylist, Peter Alexander), The Original Grease (Costume Design, Squabbalogic), Vaudevillia (Performer, Rocks Village Bizarre), Grey Gardens (Costume Design, Squabbalogic), Of Thee I Sing (Production Design, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs/Sydney Opera House), El Circo Blanc (Costume Design, Slide Sydney), Hair: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical (Director & Designer, Exclaim Theatre Company), Man of La Mancha (Costume Design, Squabbalogic), Australia’s Got Talent (Finalist, Channel 9/Fremantle Media).

In 2019, Brendan is based in Berlin, with performances and design work in galleries and festivals around the world. Brendan is also featured in a book by photographer Richard Hedger, Telling Tales, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras through celebrated individuals and their stories and can be seen painted on Australia’s most iconic queer strip, Oxford Street, in a large celebratory mural by award winning Australian stencil artist E.L.K.

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12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards; Seymour Centre Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards; at Riverside Theatres Leads Best Ensemble Performance!


The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Standings Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards; Seymour Centre Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

First Stats Released For The BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards; SIX Leads Best Musical


The first live standings have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Cast Announced For Immersive Theatre Experience, THE GREAT GATSBY


The talented performers who will inhabit the famous roles from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Sydney's newest immersive theatre experience were announced today. THE GREAT GATSBY, an original, immersive production Inspired by the novel and supported by The Arts RISE Grants, will open next month in a specially designed, stylish labyrinth at Wonderland Bar, Potts Point.

Sydney Will Experience An Immersive THE GREAT GATSBY in February 2022


Led by an ensemble of brilliantly talented Australian actors, GREAT GATSBY will offer audiences the opportunity to experience the story of Gatsby as they have never seen it before. Expect secret rendezvous, dramatic confrontations, bootleg gin and a party that only Gatsby could throw.

Cast Announced For Australian Premiere Of HEAD OVER HEELS


The cast has been announced today for the Australian Premiere of the hilarious ground-breaking Broadway hit musical HEAD OVER HEELS. Playing at Hayes Theatre Co from 18 February 2022, HEAD OVER HEELS is a bold new musical comedy set to the music of the iconic 1980's all-female rock band The Go-Go's.

Winners Announced For The 2020 BroadwayWorld Sydney Awards! SIX Wins Best Musical!


Winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Sydney Awards - which were back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade!

Trevor Ashley's SHOWQUEEN Returns


After selling out in just two hours, Sydney's most iconic cabaret night returns with a stellar lineup of local talent throughout October. Hosted by the inimitable Trevor Ashley, Showqueen returns socially distant, but still as fabulous as ever. Moving down the road to the Paddo RSL Showroom, we continue with new shows on Sunday 4, 11 and 25 October

NY Theatre Artists Rally In Effort For Australian Bush Fire Relief With Benefit Performance Of THE DAY THE SKY TURNED


New York theater producers and artists have come together in support of relief and recovery from the bushfires still sweeping across Australia. The 'CODE RED' campaign is a larger fundraising effort spearheaded by New York's theatre community that will be launched with two performances of the critically acclaimed play THE DAY THE SKY TURNED at THE TANK in New York City. Tickets are available at TheTankNYC.org.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE Comes to Belvoir Street Theatre


At only 25 years old Anchuli Felicia King has already had her work produced in London, New York and Melbourne. This October, the Thai-Australian artist makes her Sydney debut downstairs at Belvoir's 25A. For the premiere of her new play Slaughterhouse, King will not only be working as a playwright but also as the Video and Sound Designer.

BWW REVIEW: Leonard Bernstein's CANDIDE Is Presented In A Brilliant Staged Concert By Sydney Philharmonia Choirs at Sydney Opera House.


The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Sydney Youth Orchestra and a stellar cast of performers join to present a wonderful expression of Leonard Bernstein's CANDIDE under the baton of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' Artistic and Music Director Brett Weymark and theatrical direction by Mitchell Butel. 

BWW REVIEW: The Sydney Symphony Orchestra's Stage Concert of FUNNY GIRL Breaks The Mold Of Traditional Musical Theatre In Many Brilliant Ways


Director Mitchell Butel has gathered a wonderful group of women, and one man, to deliver a captivating expression of the life of Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL THE MUSICAL, presented in concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

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