Titillating | Festive | Subversive
A beloved San Francisco tradition celebrating an unprecedented 18th year, Katya, A Holiday Spectacular returns to where it all began, the New Conservatory Theatre Center Basement. For three nights only, the Yuletide doesn’t get any gayer, as Katya gifts you songs ranging from classic holiday fare and merry madcap medleys, to full-on disco Klezmer lunacy. Join your Auntie Katya in a night guaranteed to fill you and yours with the intoxicating joy of the holiday season.
Length: 90 minutes plus one intermission
The Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy (star; pronouns “Auntie”) has enthralled San Francisco audiences for a long … long time, with her unique blend of opera, pop, and booze-drenched comedy. Once Eastern Europe’s most sought-after Mezzo Soprano — understudy — the Countess now spends her evenings crooning and drinking her way through the finer theaters, bars, and bathhouses of America. She was named “Best Drag Act 2008” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and winner of the 2019 “Bestie for Cabaret Performer” and has sold out runs at the Razz Room, Feinstein’s, Oasis, Don’t Tell Mama’s, and 18 years of monthly shows at Martuni’s. Katya played Blanche Hudson in Billy Cliff’s film Baby Jane and Mildred in Hush Up Sweet Charlotte. Follow her on TikTok @katyasmirnoff, and Instagram @katyasmirnoffskyy.
J. Conrad Frank (writer/performer; pronouns he/him) has delighted Bay Area audiences and critics alike for nearly twenty years in such productions as The Rocky Horror Show, Sweeney Todd, Clue, Jungle Red, and right here at NCTC in Buyer and Cellar, The Temperamentals, Die, Mommie, Die!, and Red Scare on Sunset, in both couture and pants.