Le Gateau Chocolat’s work extends beyond the world of drag performance – he has a busy career in the field of contemporary opera and performance.
Le Gateau Chocolat’s work as a solo artist began in 2011 when he debuted his first solo show in Adelaide Fringe which then went on to tour the world as part of different festivals; Edinburgh Fringe and a subsequent run at Menier Chocolate Factory London, Wroclaw in Poland, Christchurch, Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney Opera House. Since then he has worked with an Olivier award winning circus (La Clique/La Soiree) and alongside contemporary composers – specifically Julian Philips (“Varjak Paw” ROH) Jonathan Dove (“Tobias and The Angel” Young Vic), Jocelyn Pook (“Ingerland” at ROH) and Orlando Gough a collaborator on “Black” (Imago, Glyndebourne.)
He has sung at Wigmore Hall and with Basement Jaxx at The Barbican. 3 subsequent solo shows have been made since the first; I heart Chocolat; Royal Albert Hall, ‘In drag’; A Royal Festival hall commission for the Purcell Room, and most recently ‘Black’, a Homotopia Festival commission which has played Liverpool and London’s Soho Theatre. Most recently, he joined the cast of Porgy and Bess at Regents Park Opera directed by Tim Sheader.
He also sang as part of the flotilla for the Queen’s Jubilee, again working with composer Orlando Gough. He is currently appearing in Rufus Norris & Simon Stephen’s reimagining of Threepenny Opera at the National Theatre.