Vashti Hughes

Performer

Vashti Hughes is a Sydney performer who works in theatre, cabaret and music. She trained as a performer at Theatre Nepean. After completing the course she worked with a Sydney schools T.I.E. company performing Shakespeare, where she met and worked with Liesel Badorrek.

In 1998 she put together a group called the Vashti Hughes Ensemble which consisted of four actors and a jazz band, the pianist being Leonie Cohen. They performed The Wild Party, a 1920’s jazz poem which they adapted as a jazz theatre piece. This played a four week season in Sydney and then went to the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Vashti then went to the Czech Republic and toured a version of The Pied Piper of Hamlyn in primary schools with a children’s theatre company called Toye Grasny.

She co-created Schnecke Nudel with Liesel and Leonie for the Darlinghurst Theatre which then toured to Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong. She performed in Monkeyshines with the same group last year at the Darlinghurst Theatre.

She is well known in the Sydney cabaret scene for her Mavis Brown work and Euro Techno show with Ross Johnston.

She is currently employed at Randwick Children’s Hospital as a clown doctor.