Mama Alto

Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva. She is a transgender and queer person of colour, living with disability, who works with the radical potential of storytelling, strength in softness and power in vulnerability. Her solo performances are critically acclaimed and programmed at venues and festivals including Melbourne Recital Centre (South Australia), Adelaide Cabaret Festival (South Australia) and Festival of Voices (Tasmania). She has collaborated with artists and queer figures including Finucane and Smith, Declan Greene, Brook Andrew and Taylor Mac. Alto is the co-creator of the variety cabaret “Gender Euphoria”, Australia’s largest ever entirely trans and gender diverse main stage production. Additionally, she has worked as a writer, playwright, diversity and inclusion specialist and advocate, and received multiple arts and community awards including from the Australia Council and Creative Victoria.