About Edalia Day

Too Pretty To Punch (Photo by Elmar Rubio)

About

I'm transgender actor, spoken word artist, animator and theatre maker. Trained at Lecoq and Alra, my performance work is full of energy and theatrical flair and my theatre combines comedy, live music and interactive projection mapping. Collaborators have included Milk Presents, 1623, The Young Vic, Harrogate Theatre and Theatre Royal Norwich, and my work has featured at Sundance Film Festival in the US and Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

In 2020 I upgraded my Animation skills, taking courses with School of Motion (Animation Bootcamp) and Motion Design School (2D Character Rigging and Hand Drawn FX) and now I also do motion design work for businesses and advertising.

Current personal projects

Princess of Suave

1623 Theatre commissioned me to write a modern trans focused show loosely based on Shakespeare's Pericles (formerly titled Queericles).

It follows 3 queer people, Zack, Erica and Sheila over the span of 30 years on a wild madcap adventure across the world, encountering pirates, plane crashes and very weird guy who mounts fish heads on his wall.
I'm evolving how I make my own theatre, inspired by workshops I participated in by John Wright, Told By An Idiot and Gecko, and leaning back into my Lecoq roots. This will be a collaborative, rambunctious show full of joy, playful projections and stellar 3 part harmonies.

Trans Barbershop Quartets

I'm nurturing two trans barbershop quartets into being, one in London currently called The Transposers, and the other, Music to my Queers, based in Norwich.

We're singing a mix of classics, modern pop arranged in the barbershop style and comedy rewrites of old songs with a trans twist.

Let People Like You

Premiering in June 2025 is my latest spoken word show, Let People Like You. It's based on two poems that i love to perform together, Let People Not Like You, and Let People Like You and follows my journey of finding myself in Paris in 2010, wearing a dress for the first time and getting locked out in the rain, feeling like your being baptised by the universe, and the ensuing journey of self discovery, spirituality, and heart hugging joy.

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