A Place to Make Things
Together, we:
- ♦ Develop creative ideas from the ground up
- ♦ Explore voice, music, text, movement, drag, character and performance
- ♦ Build creative and performance skills
- ♦ Try unfinished work at heart-centred studio Cabarets
- ♦ Support one another in seeing our creative visions come to life.
There is room for technique and room for instinct. Loud or quiet, polished or messy, playful or serious, familiar or completely out of the box.
How the Studio Works
Biweekly Office Hours
This is where we make things.
Bring whatever you're working on—or the beginning of an idea you don't quite know what to do with yet. Together, we can explore structure, storytelling, music, voice, character, staging, performance, creative blocks, or simply work out what comes next.
Monthly Cabaret
Part performance. Part gathering. Part creative ritual.
Each cabaret takes on a theme—an invitation to play with what we're carrying, and what we might be moving toward. Performance, reflection, celebration, and simple shared rituals through an evening of creative art sharing. The work doesn't have to be finished. But it gets to be alive.
Creative & Vocal Tools
Exercises, prompts, warm-ups and practical tools support the work between gatherings & office hours. Oceana's background in voice means technical vocal support is always available when it's useful—but voice is one tool within a much bigger creative toolbox.
Community
Making things is different when other people are making alongside you. The studio is a place to exchange ideas, find collaborators, celebrate experiments and become part of a community invested in one another's creative lives.
Your Creative Facilitator
Oceana Dix
Oceana Dix is a voice educator, drag artist, filmmaker, and creator of Out There Singing.
With a Master's degree in Musical Theatre from the University of Surrey (UK), professional performance training, contemporary vocal pedagogy, and experience creating work across music, theatre, drag and film, Oceana brings a wide creative toolkit into the room.
Their work is rooted in helping people take their creative impulses seriously—offering craft, practical support and space to explore an idea without prescribing what it should become.
The Cabaret Studio is queer- and trans-affirming, sex-positive and consent-based. Work can be personal, playful, intimate, provocative, traditional, experimental—or something else entirely. We approach what people bring with curiosity, while respecting the consent and boundaries of everyone sharing the space.
There is room for the work you want to make here.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happened to Drag Out Your Voice?
It's still here! Drag Out Your Voice was always meant for more than drag and voice alone. Cabaret Studio is the next chapter: the same spirit of experimentation and community, with more room for all the different things people want to create. Drag remains very welcome—alongside singing, acting, writing, music, storytelling, movement, interdisciplinary work and things we don't have a category for yet.
Do I have to perform at the cabarets?
No. The cabaret is an opportunity, not an obligation. You can perform, experiment, witness, connect, or simply spend time around other people making things. Though I would absolutely recommend attending the cabarets, it is perfectly OK for your voice to develop in the biweekly office hours.
Do I need professional experience?
No. Bring the experience you have. We can work with craft and technique at many different levels. Curiosity is enough to begin.
What can I bring?
Whatever you're interested in developing. The studio is designed to make room for a wide range of identities, experiences and forms of expression. We talk openly about consent and boundaries so that people can express what they want to while everyone in the room remains part of deciding what kind of space we're creating together.
Join the Studio
Cabaret Studio is intentionally kept small enough for people to know one another, receive support, and have room to make things.
Membership is $99/month.
Membership includes biweekly office hours, the monthly community cabaret, creative resources, community space, and reduced-rate individual sessions with Oceana.
JOIN THE STUDIO