Lucinda Shaw
Actor
Lucinda Shaw is an Actor, Vocalist and Collaborative Theatre Maker known for playing dark and compelling roles with a strong sense of presence. Having performed at QPAC, La Boite, Brisbane Powerhouse, Metro Arts, Judith Wright, Chapel Off Chapel, and many music venues and festivals, Lucinda is well noted for recent performances as an actor in Dragspeare, A Midnight Visit, Love Lust Lost and The Sound of a Finished Kiss. Lucinda is the lead vocalist and lyricist in Silver Sircus.
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Lucinda Shaw has a long and varied career as a Theatre Maker, Actor, Writer, Lyricist, Composer, Director and Arts Educator. Having played Medea in The New Dead directed by Kat Henry at La Boite, Drusilla in Caligula with The Danger Ensemble at Judith Wright Centre, and Calpurnia in Julius Caesar at the Brisbane Powerhouse, their reputation for embodiment of powerful, intense and intriguing roles has also been celebrated in immersive theatre experiences, playing the menacing King in A Midnight Visit and the seductive queen, Salacia in Love Lust Lost, both by Broad Encounters. Lucinda performed in Matilda Award winning work, The Sound of a Finished Kiss (Kate Wild/James Lees) at the Brisbane Powerhouse as well as shows interpreting the work of Bowie, Kate Bush, Lou Reed, and the sound track of Twin Peaks, all by Electric Moon alongside some of Mugandjin’s most dynamic performers.
With a passion for co-creating new work that celebrates human diversity, visibility and connection, Lucinda has collaborated with other queer cultural creatives and artists with disabilities building recent cabaret theatre works, weaving together comedy and insight into deep human feeling: Dragespeare (Drag Kings do Shakespeare) at Metro Arts and Sex and Other Philosophies, an original work picked up by North Australia Festival of the Arts and Adelaide Fringe Festival. As a song-writer, vocalist, and recording artist with Silver Sircus and Isis, themes of love, sexuality, death and deep human emotion are explored and expressed through poetic lyricism and engaging performance, recordings can be heard on all streaming platforms. Lucinda has created sound track elements for The Between, a new musical with Folly Games and Woodford Folk Festival, and for shows with Vulcana Women’s Circus, and Voiiid Collective.
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And then there is Lucinda Shaw as Madame Pace, who arrives like a gypsy diva from another planet. Her costume is fabulous, her presence is deliciously heightened, and her appearance injects a jolt of colour and theatrical excess into the otherwise shadowy world of the Characters.
Stage Buzz Brisbane | Read More
“There is a brilliant scene where the flamboyant Madame Pace (the wonderful Lucinda Shaw) is conjured onto the stage, enticed by the placement of a few theatrical props.”
Beth Keehn - Stage Whispers | Read Review
“In latter sections, lighting and sound design work together to sustain a stylised mood of existential horror, memorably enlivening the linger of the flamboyant Madame Pace’s (Lucinda Shaw) dramatic entrance to enable a crucial encounter between the Father and Step-Daughter.”
Meredith Walker - Blue Curtains | Read More
“Lucinda Shaw’s Salacia was a highlight…equal parts seductress, lost soul and manipulator….join her in her dungeon you are in for a treat.”
Ads J - Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane | Read Full Review
“An experienced cabaret, theatre and drag quintet …deftly took the audience on a journey, laughing, squealing and applauding through their repertoire. Lucinda Shaw’s voice in particular is absolutely mesmerizing.”
Ophelia Novak - Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane | Read Full Review
“It was wonderful to see Brisbane Performers amongst the cast, including Lucinda Shaw as a larger-than-life, temperamental King… excellent and should be commended for their focus of their interaction with audience members… passionate commitment throughout.”
Meredith Walker - Blue Curtains Brisbane | Read Full Review
“Are friends Electric…Genteel, floating on a carefully prepared cloud of dreams, with a feeling of being transported to a plane of deep reference. We cannot go past Shaw’s vocal performance. Powerful, evocative and never trying to emulate Numan but rather forging her own print…elegance and a wonderful dark polish.”
Adele Sinnamon - Onyx Music Reviews |Read Full Review
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THEATRE CREDITS
2021 - A Midnight Visit (Immersive Theatre) Board Encounters, Actor
2021 - God is in the House (Cabaret) Brisbane Powerhouse, Actor, Director
2019 - Julius Caesar (Theatre) Brisbane Powerhouse, Actor
2018 - We Will Not kiss touch frighten You in the Dark (Theatre) Danger Ensemble, Actor
2025 - Cut Off My, Metal, Down in the Park, (Film Clips) Actor / Co-creator
2025 - DragSpeare, (Cabaret Theatre) Metro Arts, Actor / Musical Director
2025 - Dirt, The Voiiid Collective, Vent Space, Performer
2024-2025 The Voiiid Collective The Wasteland, Vent Space, Woodford, Performer
2024 - DragSpeare, (Cabaret Theatre) PIP Actor / Director / Musical Director
2022-2025 - The Between (Musical) Woodford Festival, Actor / Musical Director/ Composer
2022-2024 Sex and Other Philosophies (Cabaret Theatre) Judith Wright, PIP, NAFA, RPAC, Adelaide fringe Festival, Actor/ Co-Writer
2023 - Sand (Creative Development) Belloo Creative, for QPAC, Performer
2022 - Love Lust Lost (Immersive Theatre)
2017 - Young Hearts Run Free (Rock Masquerade Concert) The Tivoli, Performer
2017 - The Sound of a Finished Kiss (Music Theatre) Brisbane Powerhouse, Actor,
2016 - Transformer (Cabaret Theatre) QPAC, Performer/Vocalist
2016 - Ziggy Stardust (Cabaret Theatre) Brisbane Powerhouse, Tivoli, Chapel Off Chapel, Performer/Vocalist
2014 - Caligula (Theatre) Danger Ensemble, Judith Wright Centre, Actor
2011 - Grave Effects of Notable Women (Circus Theatre) Vulcana at Toowong Cemetery, Musical Director / Performer
2010 - The New Dead: Medea Material (Theatre) La Boite, Actor
FILM CREDITS2000 - Rubber Gloves (Film) Actor
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2024 - Masterclass, Clowning, Andrew Cory
2022 - Masterclass series, Acting for Camera, The Factory, Sean Lynch
2020 - Masterclass series, Reflective Practice / Linklater / Suzuki , Jo Loth, Jeremy Neideck
2017 - Masterclass series, Acting, Helen Howard
1998 - ACAP, Grad Dip Counselling
1990 - Griffith University, Bachelor of Arts
1986 - KG QUT, Grad Dip Teaching Theatre, Art
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Winner Original Music Video West End Film Festival for Metal by Silver Sircus Collaboration with Rhys Tyack with Lisa O’Neill 2025
Nominated for Performer of the Year Queens Ball 2019
Matilda Award for Best Cabaret or Musical 2018 for The Sound of a Finished Kiss by Kate Wild
Rubber Gloves by Anthony Mullins and Kris Kneen
Finalist Aspen Film Festival 2001
Selected for St Kilda Film Festival 2001
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Freelance