Vonni

Vonni’s first stage experience was in 1975 when she worked in a cabaret style burlesque club as a striptease artist in Adelaide.

In 1978 she joined the Melbourne touring show of Les Girls all Male Revue touring throughout all major cities and country Australia and New Zealand touring in a bus and actually worked in all the pubs and Alice Springs Lasseters Casino that were in the original movie and musical Priscilla Queen Of The Desert.

In 1983 she received an invitation from Carlotta to join the world famous Sammy Lee’s Les Girls in Kings Cross Sydney as their resident stripper.

In 1984 she appeared in a pop video clip for Stephen Cummings smash hit Another Kick In The Head which then lead to in 1995 she was asked to appear as LOLA the stripper in the Channel 9 TV mini series SHOUT the story of Johnny O’ Keefe. In 1987 she left KingsCross Les Girls and worked in a chain of KingsCross strip clubs owned by gangsters and mafia type groups . 

In 1996 she left Sydney to live in Adelaide where she still lives.

For 17 years she was the manager of Australia’s longest running strip club The Crazy Horse Revue.

She also co wrote 5 live shows that toured S.A and in 2008 one of those shows “The Girly Side of Butch” went to Dublin for 5 sell out shows at The Dublin International Gay Theatre. 

She was absolutely thrilled to be back working with her long time friend and ex house mate Carlotta in 2022 at her musical debut in the leading role of Bernedette in Matt Wards Production of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT directed by the multi talented Trevor Ashley. 

She has lived the life of Bernedette and is honoured to have been the first transgender woman in Australia to play the role of Bernedette at Star Gold Coast and only the 2nd in the world. Then in 2023 she played the same role in her home of Adelaide for The Gilbert & Sullivan Society Of SA at The Arts Theatre.

These days she works as a freelance entertainer hosting shows, bingos and even dabbles as a DJ with no intention of retiring anytime soon.