UO Live: Discoland
From comedy to dancing, the intimate to the experimental, there’s something for everyone. Discoland is a community of creatives who value inclusivity, good times, and unique brilliance. Find out more with the founders.
We’re Heather O’Sullivan (she/her) and Sophia Hirsch (they/she), the co-founders of performance and events company, Discoland!
We bring eclectic, electric cabaret shows to intimate spaces and are SO excited to be partnering with Urban Outfitters EU! Our first UO Live show is coming up this Thursday in Camden. The line-up features some of the hottest London-based performing artists working in comedy, music and drag!
Discoland was born just under a year ago – we started off making theatre together in venues across London. As a company launch party, we threw a cabaret night featuring eight performers with unique styles and perspectives. We couldn’t believe the response from our audience and realised we could cultivate vibrant, fun community spaces that connected artists from across disciplines.
Heather is an actor, writer and comedian originally from Dublin. Her love of experimental comedy, mime, clowning and all things comedically alternative is a driving force at Discoland. We believe forms considered “underground” or “alternative” are deeply valuable. Art that pushes formal boundaries asks us to engage with the world in new ways and celebrate our human capacity for difference.
Sophia is an American queer, actor, writer and lecturer whose work aims to disrupt traditional heteronormative forms. They utilise silliness as an act of resistance and create explosive visual metaphors on stage. They embrace failure, experimentation and playfulness in their process and style. Cabaret is a historically queer form, and many queer venues in London are under threat of closure. We work to honour the spirit of cabaret, while contributing to the number of opportunities available for performers, both in traditional cabaret styles (like drag and burlesque) and forms like comedy, music and spoken word.
We believe that nightlife performers should be paid fairly, therefore valued for their work. Pursuing a career in the arts can be equal parts challenging and rewarding. Creating a strong community through Discoland makes us feel supported not only as professionals, but as people. We see the arts community as an ecosystem: when we feed it, it feeds us. We are constantly inspired by the work we see at our shows and in the larger London performance scene.
We believe sustaining a rich and vibrant artistic landscape begins with sustaining artists.
We are a company for artists, by artists.
Discoland is a place to create, express and experience.
Our Line-Up featured the phenomenal:
Lorna Rose Treen
An award-winning character comedian and writer from Redditch as well as Chortle's Best Newcomer 2023 and Funny Women Awards' first-ever double winner (2022). Lorna has written for BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 and is currently appearing on the BBC’s DMs Are Open. She's also known for ITV’s, The Emily Atack Show and her TikTok, @LornaRegionalTransport. "I laughed so much I violently bit my tongue" Independent "Off-kilter energy and unflagging commitment to the silly" Chortle.co.uk
Tania Nwachukwu
Tania Nwachukwu is an Igbo performer, writer and educator, born and raised in London. She is the co-founder of Black in the Day, a member of Octavia Poetry Collective and a Barbican Young Poets alumna. Tania will be joined on stage by Fran Amewudah-Rivers, an actor, composer and musician who was awarded the 2021 Evening Standard Future Theatre Award for Audio Design.
Xenia Garden
When she’s not giving bicycle tours around London, actor-musician Xenia is practising the harp, guitar or trumpet. Her favourite genre of music is “acoustic, sad girl.” Xenia will be performing her own original music.
Paris Grande
Drag icon, legend and STAR. The flippin’ & whippin’ pop princess and UK’s Premiere Trixstress. British-Bajan barbie, lipsync assassin & THAT bitch! Tightest tuck, phattest padded ass, tiniest waist, longest human hair, biggest heels and the highest energy performance guaranteed.
Celya AB
Celya AB is a French writer and comedian. She won the Best Newcomer Chortle Award in 2022. Celya was also a finalist in the BBC's New Comedy Award 2021.
DEJA
Originally from Solihull, Birmingham and now a West Londoner, DEJA’s music is next level. Having grown up in a family of music enthusiasts, DEJA has cherished music for as long as she can remember. Catch her performing three original tracks at our event.
We’re always on the lookout for new artists, of any kind, so if you like the look of our events, want to perform with us, or even just meet new artists over a coffee – DM us!
We bring eclectic, electric cabaret shows to intimate spaces and are SO excited to be partnering with Urban Outfitters EU! Our first UO Live show is coming up this Thursday in Camden. The line-up features some of the hottest London-based performing artists working in comedy, music and drag!
Discoland was born just under a year ago – we started off making theatre together in venues across London. As a company launch party, we threw a cabaret night featuring eight performers with unique styles and perspectives. We couldn’t believe the response from our audience and realised we could cultivate vibrant, fun community spaces that connected artists from across disciplines.
Heather is an actor, writer and comedian originally from Dublin. Her love of experimental comedy, mime, clowning and all things comedically alternative is a driving force at Discoland. We believe forms considered “underground” or “alternative” are deeply valuable. Art that pushes formal boundaries asks us to engage with the world in new ways and celebrate our human capacity for difference.
Sophia is an American queer, actor, writer and lecturer whose work aims to disrupt traditional heteronormative forms. They utilise silliness as an act of resistance and create explosive visual metaphors on stage. They embrace failure, experimentation and playfulness in their process and style. Cabaret is a historically queer form, and many queer venues in London are under threat of closure. We work to honour the spirit of cabaret, while contributing to the number of opportunities available for performers, both in traditional cabaret styles (like drag and burlesque) and forms like comedy, music and spoken word.
We believe that nightlife performers should be paid fairly, therefore valued for their work. Pursuing a career in the arts can be equal parts challenging and rewarding. Creating a strong community through Discoland makes us feel supported not only as professionals, but as people. We see the arts community as an ecosystem: when we feed it, it feeds us. We are constantly inspired by the work we see at our shows and in the larger London performance scene.
We believe sustaining a rich and vibrant artistic landscape begins with sustaining artists.
We are a company for artists, by artists.
Discoland is a place to create, express and experience.
Our Line-Up featured the phenomenal:
Lorna Rose Treen
An award-winning character comedian and writer from Redditch as well as Chortle's Best Newcomer 2023 and Funny Women Awards' first-ever double winner (2022). Lorna has written for BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 and is currently appearing on the BBC’s DMs Are Open. She's also known for ITV’s, The Emily Atack Show and her TikTok, @LornaRegionalTransport. "I laughed so much I violently bit my tongue" Independent "Off-kilter energy and unflagging commitment to the silly" Chortle.co.uk
Tania Nwachukwu
Tania Nwachukwu is an Igbo performer, writer and educator, born and raised in London. She is the co-founder of Black in the Day, a member of Octavia Poetry Collective and a Barbican Young Poets alumna. Tania will be joined on stage by Fran Amewudah-Rivers, an actor, composer and musician who was awarded the 2021 Evening Standard Future Theatre Award for Audio Design.
Xenia Garden
When she’s not giving bicycle tours around London, actor-musician Xenia is practising the harp, guitar or trumpet. Her favourite genre of music is “acoustic, sad girl.” Xenia will be performing her own original music.
Paris Grande
Drag icon, legend and STAR. The flippin’ & whippin’ pop princess and UK’s Premiere Trixstress. British-Bajan barbie, lipsync assassin & THAT bitch! Tightest tuck, phattest padded ass, tiniest waist, longest human hair, biggest heels and the highest energy performance guaranteed.
Celya AB
Celya AB is a French writer and comedian. She won the Best Newcomer Chortle Award in 2022. Celya was also a finalist in the BBC's New Comedy Award 2021.
DEJA
Originally from Solihull, Birmingham and now a West Londoner, DEJA’s music is next level. Having grown up in a family of music enthusiasts, DEJA has cherished music for as long as she can remember. Catch her performing three original tracks at our event.
We’re always on the lookout for new artists, of any kind, so if you like the look of our events, want to perform with us, or even just meet new artists over a coffee – DM us!