heather bandenburg
Professionally unladylike writer and performance artist
heather bandenburg
Professionally unladylike writer and performance artist
About my work
Heather grew up wanting to be a writer, and then accidentally became a lucha libre wrestler aged 21. Since then she has launched herself fully in to a series of adventures, including writing feminist narratives on wrestling; and running an immersive cabaret show called I Need to Cher. This website brings together all of her nonsense using nice fonts.
I Need to Cher
"Like being in someone elses' lucid dream... you've created queer heaven." Graduate of the INTC programme
I Need to Cher is the world’s only immersive Cher-themed informative feminist cabaret night. Using interactive activities; feminist performance; and informative presentations - a menagerie of Chers take the audience through a journey that spans Cher's six decade influence on popular culture.
Unladylike A Grrls Guide to Wrestling
"One of the best wrestling memoirs I've had the pleasure to have read." Mick Foley
Heather's debut novel - her story of becoming an unlikely wrestler and a book about why female wrestlers continue to break bones and stereotypes. Unladylike is a feminist romp like no other and is available now!
Mummy Vs (Work In Progress for 2021)
Working mothers are the sacrificial lambs of Covid, they wrestle every day with exhaustion, childcare, their careers and keeping the whole country from going complete up shit creek. But what would their lives look like if it was an actual wrestling show?
Using Arts Council support, Heather brings together her experiences as a first time Mother in lockdown with the extravagant battles going on in her head. Who will take on the terrifying spectre of Post Natal Depression? Can anyone end the tyranny of Peppa Pig on young minds? A cast of the UK's finest wrestlers and the unadulterated, sleep-deprived, bonkers genius of Heather Bandenburg will meet in a fight to remember.