About
" Fatt Butcher is the moment "
– Instinct Magazine
" Full of wonders"
– The Times
Fatt Butcher is an award winning cabaret artist, vocalist, and professional hot mess.
Heralded by critics as an ‘incredible vocal powerhouse’ (West End Best Friend) and ‘the accelerating decline of humanity’ by trolls on twitter, they recently gained internet notoriety after creating a ‘landmark television moment’ (The Metro) as the first person to sniff poppers live on national television.
Fat icon, fashion influencer, and delusional character actress, Fatt is the illegitimate love child of Elton John and Pam St. Clement, their work has been described as ‘anarchic campery’ (Reviewsgate) and ‘a tender moment of queer celebration’ (lastminutetheatretickets.com).
A rising star of the UK cabaret scene: Fatt is the 2022 winner of Drag Idol UK, the creator and host of Fatt Butcher’s Disco Bingo, and a regular performer on the UK’s cabaret, festival, and pride circuits.
Fatt has featured in a number of television and theatrical productions across the UK, they have also written features for Attitude Magazine and The Metro. Recent credits include The Voice UK (ITV), A Christmas Carole, Southend Palace Theatre (Trafalgar Entertainment/Tuckshop), Ginny Lemon & Friends (Garrick Theatre), Fister Act (The Turbine Theatre), Send In The Clowns (Old Joint Stock Theatre), More More More How You Lycett, How Do You Lycett (National Tour), Joe Lycett’s Big Pride Party (Channel 4), Come Dine With Me: The Professionals (Channel 4, upcoming), and Britain’s Got Talent for about 2 seconds (ITV/Thames TV).
Fatt is the creation of artist, producer and cultural activist Adam Carver (they/them).
Adam is the founder and Director of Fatt Projects Ltd. a Birmingham based non-profit focusing on advancing queer joy and liberation through arts and culture. To find out more about the work of Fatt Projects here.
Adam’s work has been commissioned by the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, Birmingham Hippodrome, Cambridge Junction, DanceXchange, Marlborough Productions, Home Live Art, Greenwich Docklands International Festival, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Jerwood Arts, and Arts Council England amongst others.
They are interested in what it is to celebrate queerness in a world without shame, where shame itself does not (and has not) existed. They are interested in what queerness has to offer the world, and actively creating a new way of viewing and navigating the world (rather than moving away from an old one). To do this they play many roles; producer, community organiser, curator, artist, provocateur, drag queen, consultant, developer, creator, vocalist, and sweaty mess.
Adam is a former Jerwood Arts Creative Bursary recipient, researching sustainable socially engaged queer performance practice, and an arts council DYCP grant recipient.