Brendan de la Hay

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.