Steakhouse Live is a DIY platform for radical performance practices. It’s rough. It’s raw. Unprofessionalism is embraced. Work cuts across performance art, theatre, visual art, cabaret, sculpture, dance, drag and participatory performance.
We are an independent artist/producer collective founded in 2013, which grew out of a frustration at seeing artists who were making challenging and provocative live work not getting supported and shown in the right context in London. Since then Steakhouse Live has produced and curated over 50 events across the UK.
We have programmed performances in parks, streets, fields, art galleries, fetes, yards, abandoned warehouses and artist studios. Along with our many one‐off events we independently produce the Steakhouse Live Festival of Live Art.
We are currently on a hiatus but may be back in the very near future….
Steakhouse Live is a member of Live Art UK, the national network of Live Art promoters.
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Who we are…
Katy Baird is a London based artist and activist who often finds herself in uncomfortable situations of her own making. Her work is intimate and autobiographical in nature, reflecting on gender, class and sexuality.
Mary Osborn is a freelance producer, dramaturg and Artist Advisor. She currently works as Creative Development Producer at Battersea Arts Centre. and has recently begun a new curatorial collaboration with Copenhagen based producer Emma Møller.
Aaron Wright is a curator and producer of Live Art. In 2023 he was appointed Head of Performance and Dance at the Southbank Centre.
Aaron co-produces club night Knickerbocker at The Yard Theatre and also performs across the UK and internationally as his alter ego TRACEYEMINSOUNDSYTEM.
Alex Lawless is Executive Producer at SME podcasts/ Somethin’ Else.
He’s a DJ and promotes queer dance party Knickerbocker with Aaron Wright.
He has previously produced pantomimes and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Past Members
Louise Orwin is an award-winning Live Artist, researcher, writer and performer and co-founded Steakhouse Live in 2013, producing the annual Steakhouse Live festival until 2015.
Lucy Hutson was associate artist at Steakhouse Live from 2013-2016. Lucy is a London-based artist; making work since 2008, her work engages with capitalism and gender. She works with found objects and unloved artefacts.
Valeria Tello Giusti helped with Steakhouse Live social media in 2015. Valeria is a Peruvian artist and producer working in physical performance, live art and dance.
Johanne Hauge helped with Steakhouse Live in 2016. Johanne is a Norwegian live artist who makes messy, personal work. She plays with gender, failure and ‘realness’ and loves being bossy, dancing and google translate.
Edythe Woolley co-produced Steakhouse Live events in 2018 and is a performance artist who enjoys confusing the glamorous and the grotesque, and dismantles societies gender constructs to give the patriarchy a good old slap in the face.
eleanor fogg co-produced Steakhouse Live events in 2018 and makes live experiences with performance, video and sound. she likes to keep things visceral as well as visual, and she’s interested in transformation.