Son of a Tutu

Winner of Best Performance in a Role Beyond the Binary 2023 in Lemon

Son of a Tutu (He/She/They) is an award-winning actor (Iris Prize 2023), award-winning drag artist, activist, and speaker. The 2011 winner of Drag Idol UK since which they have performed/spoken across the UK and Europe in various cabaret venues and settings, films, pantos, at festivals (Pride and others) and, for small, medium, and multinational corporations. They have also appeared at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and hosted online events for Amnesty International, ParaPride as well as hosting Bingo on Victoria Beckham’s Instagram account.

As featured on BBC stories, Tutu was the face of Primark’s national Pride campaign (2019). They also conceived and directed the #YouCanDoBetter (microaggressions) viral video in the wake of the Black Lives Matter uprisings of 2020 and, were featured as one of the subjects in Dan Jones’s book 50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World. They also can be seen in the Everybody’s Talking About Jamie movie, Lemon, a short film currently streaming on All4 also, played Mother Nature in Acid’s Reign at the 2023 Vaults Festival. They were also one of the featured beauties in the Permissible Beauties installation at Hampton Court Palace film, the film element of which is currently showing at film festivals around the world as well as part of the ‘cult of Beauty’ exhibition currently on at the Wellcome Collection in London.


Mae Son of a Tutu (He / She / They) yn actor arobryn (Gwobr Iris 2023), artist drag arobryn, actifydd a siaradwr. Maent yn enillydd 2011 Drag Idol UK ac wedi perfformio/siarad ar draws y DU ac Ewrop mewn lleoliadau cabaret amrywiol, ffilmiau, pantos, mewn gwyliau (Pride ac eraill) ac, ar gyfer corfforaethau bach, canolig a rhyngwladol. Maent hefyd wedi ymddangos yng Ngŵyl Ymylol Caeredin ac wedi cynnal digwyddiadau ar-lein ar gyfer Amnest Rhyngwladol, ParaPride yn ogystal â chynnal Bingo ar gyfrif Instagram Victoria Beckham.

Fel y gwelwyd ar BBC stories, roedd Tutu yn wyneb ymgyrch genedlaethol Primark Pride (2019). Fe wnaethon nhw hefyd greu a chyfarwyddo’r fideo firaol #YouCanDoBetter (microaggressions) yn sgil gwrthryfel Black Lives Matter yn 2020 ac, cawsant eu cynnwys fel un o’r pynciau yn llyfr Dan Jones 50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World. Gellir eu gweld hefyd yn ffilm Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Lemon, ffilm fer sy’n ffrydio ar All4 hefyd, wedi chwarae Mother Nature yn Acid ‘s Reign yng Ngŵyl Vaults 2023. Roeddent hefyd yn un o’r ceinion yn y gosodiad Permissible Beauties yn ffilm Hampton Court Palace ac mae’r elfen ffilm ohoni yn cael ei dangos ar hyn o bryd mewn gwyliau ffilm ledled y byd yn ogystal â rhan o arddangosfa ‘cwlt o Harddwch’ sydd ar hyn o bryd yn y Wellcome Collection yn Llundain.