Want a Dynamite Drag Performer for your next event? Look no further, as the highly glammable POLLYFILLA is here. With a performance style that will blow your mind, Pollyfilla will bring any house down, with her insane high energy - high camp routine! Also Bette Midler, Liza Minelli , Cher and Marilyn Monroe, just to name a few in her repertoire. With a career spanning 7 years, Pollyfilla has a great depth of experience as a performer and designer, and her career highlights illustrate this to a tea!

Pollyfilla has performed in a number of prestigious shows including the ‘Glammie Awards’ and opening night shows for both The Out Takes Queer Film Festival in 2001 and 2002, and MC for 2003. Her work as a theatrical costume designer has been highly regarded and displayed at numerous exhibitions including the Museum of New Zealand and The Dowse Art Museum, as well as winning The Wellington Cup Avant Garde Fashion Contest for three years in a row! With a profile such as this, you know only to expect a talent of the most extrodinary professionalism, and most importantly fun and excitement!.

Pollyfilla (Performer/Designer)

Height 6 ft 6 inches (in heels) 7 ft minimum (with hair)

Most Popular Hair Colour Blonde, Pink and Purple

Length of Experience 6 years

Drag Personality Highly Glammable! Camp with an Ironic Edge

Favourite Songs to perform to 12 days of Christmas/ Your love is lifting me higher/ Liza with a Z / Roses Turn

Family Dee Za Star (Great Aunt once removed - to Auckland) Tammy Ponn (Sister/Daughter, also in Auckland), Various other illegitimate Daughters...

Drink of Choice Raspberry and Coke

Favourite Actress Bette Midler

Favourite Actor Tie Between Hugh Jackman and Vin Diesel

Favourite Movies Beaches, Minority Report, Pufnstuf, Mommie Dearest, Star Wars Series , X men, Final Destination 1/2, anything with Vin Diesel or Hugh jackman!

Impersonations Bette Midler, Liza Minelli, Marilyn Monroe, Geri Halliwell/Ginger Spice, Joan Crawford, Cher

Current Work Pound Nightclub (Wellington NZ) Fridays and Saturdays - 2 am shows

Career Highlights

• Glammie Awards 1997, 1999 and 2000 Shows
• Dowse Art Museum Design Season - Opening Night Show 2001
• Out Takes Queer Film Fest 2001 Opening night show - " Mommie Dearest"
• Out Takes Queer Film Fest 2002 Opening night show - " Somewhere over the wizard of OZ"
• Out Takes Queer Film Fest 2003 Opening night MC as "Queen Lizzie"
• Te Papa - Museum of NZ - "Dolly does Devotion" - Mixed Media Handbag
• Bowerman Design School Fashion Show 2000
• Dowse Art Museum - Design Season 2001
• "VERSACE - The reinvention of material" Exhibit - Te Papa 2001
• Guest Performer - Fringe NZ Closing Night parties 2001/2002/2003
• Costumed Lillith LaCroix (worn at 2002 Mardi Gras launch - Sydney Opera House)
• Mary Potter Hospice "Hollywood" Fundraiser 2002
• "Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers" Australasian Premiere 2002 - Red Carpet Entertainment
• Red Ribbon Day Collector (NZ Aids Foundation) 2001/2002/2003
• Wellington City Council "Big Night Out" New Years Eve 2002/3 Celebrations - Civic Square
• "GLAMARAMA" - 90 minute show for Wellington City Council Summer City Twilight Concerts Programme 2003
• Judge - Best Costume - Wellington Gold Awards 2003 - "A Day at the Races"
• MC - Mr Gay Wellington & Miss Drag Wellington 2003
• Cancer Society Undersea Ball 2003

Theatre

• "38" (a cow) - "Butter Loving" - Young and Hungry Festival - BATS 2001
• "Vanity Insanity!" - Theatre show at BATS Theatre - part of Fringe NZ festival February 2002
• "POLLYWOOD! - drags to bitches" - Theatre show at BATS Theatre December 2002

TV/Film

• "The Irrefutable truth about Demons" - First Sun Productions
• "Stickmen" - Stick Films "The Strip"
• (TV Series) - Gibson Group
• "The Mens Room" - Short Film
• "The Drag Bitch Project" (co - wrote/directed) - Short FIlm

Awards

• Winner Best Show Glammies 1999
• Wellington Cup Fashion Contest - Winner- Avant Garde Section 2001 - "Millenium Madam"
• Wellington Cup Fashion Contest - Winner - Queen of the Carnival Section 2002 - "Roses"
• Wellington Cup Fashion Contest - Winner - Queen of the Carnival Section 2003 - "Peacock"
• Belle of the Ball (Best dressed) - Golden Stilettoes (Auckland Drag Awards) 2003