Iestyn Edwards is an Olivier Award winning, Guildhall trained opera singer. While there, he created his cabaret persona, Madame Galiana Ballet Star Galactica… so, they asked him to leave. Today he is the best-selling author of ‘My Tutu Went AWOL’, an international cabaret headliner and is much in demand as an after dinner speaker.
Without giving too much away, his talk includes excerpts from his west end shows and he will explain how he accidentally went on tour dancing ‘Sugar Plum’ around the war-zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, raising the morale of British troops, in a tutu. The MoD reports described it as an honourable exchange when a fuming Royal Marines Commando hoicked him offstage by his tutu under-wiring, to stuff him into the hull of a tank, just as the insurgents began shelling.