Denice Bourbon

Black-and-white portrait of a person in a black turtleneck against a plain background. The person leans forward, looks directly into the camera and holds a cigarette in their outstretched hand.

Denice Bourbon is a lesbian/queer-feminist performance artist, singer, writer, show host, curator, and stand-up comedian. She uses humour and entertainment as activist tools to draw attention to political issues. For a number of years, she has been working as a freelance artist in both theatre and film. Denice Bourbon has worked with artists such as Katharina Mückstein, Katrina Daschner, Gin Müller, Veza Fernández, Sabine Marte, Stefanie Sourial, Stefanie Sargnagel, Amina Handke, and Nesterval at venues such as brut Wien, WUK, WERK X, Ateliertheater, Kosmos Theater, Spektakel, and many more. Denice Bourbon was a co-curator of Vienna’s first queer performance festival, Straight to Hell(2015, with Denise Kottlett), and co-founder of the queer stand-up comedy club PCCC*, which she has been running alone since 2020 as a presenter, office genius and comedy mother. She was part of the cast for Nesterval’s acclaimed immersive productions The Village (2018) and Die Namenlosen (2023).

Works at brut

SODOM VIENNA REVUE (2023, with Gin Müller, Veza Fernández, Hyo Lee, Denise Palmieri, Stefanie Sourial, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Elise Yuki Mory)
Sodom Vienna (2021, with Gin Müller, Veza Fernández, Hyo Lee, Denise Palmieri, Stefanie Sourial, Alex Franz Zehetbauer)
Out and about with Sodom Vienna (2021)
Volxtoolschule as part of Sodom Vienna (2021)
The Village (2018, as part of the Nesterval cast)