15 April - Jacob Mallinson Bird, Academic, Dramaturg, Drag performer

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS ... Jacob Mallinson Bird

Dr Jacob Mallinson Bird (MA, MSt, DPhil) is an academic, dramaturg, and drag performer. As an academic, he is Lecturer in Music at The Queen’s and Somerville Colleges, University of Oxford; Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge; and Praeceptor in Music for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His doctoral research centred on drag lip-sync performance, focussing on ethnographic fieldwork on five London-based drag performers; his research has been published in Sound Studies, Contemporary Music Review, and Riffs and an upcoming monograph to be published with Bloomsbury Academic. His current research explores the intersections of noise theory and queer theory in contemporary noise music scenes. As a dramaturg, he worked on the one-man version of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (directed by Dustin Wills) at New York City’s Little Island, as well as the Paris Opera’s 2026 production of Satyagraha at the Palais Garnier. As a research assistant he has also worked on Opera Philadelphia’s 2024 production of The Listeners and Anthony Roth Costanzo’s upcoming book Countertenor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). As a drag performer, Jacob regularly performs under the pseudonym Dinah Lux, with residencies at Roses of Elagabalus, The London EDITION, and Festival d’Hyères, as well as performing at Classical Pride, Wilton’s Music Hall, and on the Venice-Simplon Orient Express. He has been featured in Vogue, Dazed, Another Man, i-D, GQ, and been an Attitude cover star, as well as being photographed by Nick Knight and Tim Walker. As a male model, he has walked for JW Anderson and Raf Simons, and has walked London, Paris, New York and Tokyo Fashion Weeks. 

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Doors open at 6pm, the event begins at 6.30pm and ends by 7.45pm. Then we have until 8.30pm to chat with our guest, mingle & drink & enjoy the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café.

Tickets are non-refundable