Hilda Eusébio is a performance artist who devises and performs for the theatre, cabaret and queer scenes. She is best known for her hard-hitting, humourous one-woman shows ('Jack: Evolution of a Drag King' and 'Ego-Cum-Love') that have been taking venues by storm and generating interest from all walks of life. Fusing comedy with live performance essay, Hilda's work can be shocking, funny, occasionally offensive but always well-intentioned.
Born and raised in Toronto, she decided to pursue her love of absurdist and physical theatre and moved to her family's native Portugal. In Lisbon, she spent most of her time in her room but would occasionally brave the outside world to catch a bus and rehearse with Ávila Costa's notoriously surreal and highly acclaimed GTL Theatre Company. She subsequently joined João Meireles and Mário Trigo to found Focus Theatre Company and co-starred in their début production, Almada Negreiro’s 'The Myth of Psyche'.
Struggling to find a cure for her depression, Hilda decided to move to London, find a man, get married and have children. Naturally, she came out, instead.
With this new identity came a new way of performing. She became a deviser/performer for the award-winning Mapping4D ('Little English', 'Vertigo', 'The Pink Bits' and 'Slender') and teamed up with Mimi Beaufort to create queerlesque acts ('The Tale of Dr. Ludvig von Kastratoff and The Sex Creature Supreme' and 'Dallas: The Censored Episode'). She then proceeded to purchase a three-piece suit.
Creating an alter-ego known only as Jack, Hilda devised live at Tim Redfern's Pas de Piaf Cabaret and Bar Wotever to create her politically charged, drag king comedy show 'Jack: Evolution of a Drag King'. Not the comedy scene’s traditional show, insidecomedy.com described ‘Evolution of a Drag King’ as ‘grab(bing) the audience by the scruff of the neck and sh(aking) it wildly…a highly charged set …polished…funny… aggressive and shocking’. (insidecomedy.com) Jack has performed for Shunt, Duckie, Transfabulous, BFI's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Bar Wotever and the RVT's Hot August Fringe.
Her new one-woman show, ‘Ego-Cum-Love’, has been applauded in venues in Brighton and London and is back by popular demand. Examining society's addiction to power and hierarchy in the context of Britain today, Hilda uses her trademark combinination of dark comedy, sharp commentary and stark vulnerability to leave audiences both entertained and moved.
Hilda has dragged it up and queered it out for Duckie's Gay Shame, Wotever World's Modern Music Hall, The Modern Times Club, Whoopee! Club, Glam Slam, Stranger than Paradise, Cochrane Confidential, the ICA, Bristol's The Big Tease, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Café Royale, The Cobden Club, The Bethnal Green Working Men's Club and more.
Hilda has never been happier. Her one remaining dream is to find true success as a reincarnation of James Spader's and Barry Manilow's love child.








