altimate.SHOWDOWN is the genre-spanning competition unapologetically celebrating everyone who is different and uniquely fierce, with a focus on showcasing diversity and local performers.
NAARM, WE ARE BACK BABY!!! Get ready for Season Three in 2025 - we are ready to make an even bigger splash of loud positive noise with you and couldn’t be more excited!
Performers from all across the underground performance worlds of Drag, Burlesque, Sideshow, Comedy, Music, Performance Art, Dance entertainers (AND MORE!) will battle it out to earn the title of Champion and walk away with a juicy grand prize! CHAMPIONS from Season Two of both Naarm & Magandjin walked away with a prize pack of over $10k each... So stay tuned for this years prizes.
Taking place across 5 nights in May and June in the heart of Brunswick at Stay Gold, each night will be hosted and judged by local legends of Naarm’s fringe entertainment world.
Our collective first four seasons in Magandjin and Naarm were incredible community bonding, camp, masterclasses in diverse artistic talent and queer excellence night after night.
So, what are you waiting for? C U @ altimate.SHOWDOWN Naarm Season 3
GET TO KNOW HOW IT WORKS
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Your votes really do matter each night, so be sure turn up for the onslaught of talent.​
MEET THE CONTESTANTS
HEAT ONE
HEAT TWO
HEAT THREE
HEAT FOUR
SEE WHAT'S IN STORE
First time at an alt. or altimate.SHOWDOWN?
Have a gander at our previous seasons by clicking the images. Loaded with photos and video footage, it might prepare you for what you're in for...
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But who knows what chaos Naarm has for us this year
THE PANEL
TILLY CAPULET - HOST
Tilly Capulet is the Mustached Mistress of Melbourne. A double nominee in the 2024 + 25 Melbourne Drag Excellence awards, Tilly exudes an eclectic mix of fashion and camp with a touch of stupidity. The immaculate Capulet has a stage presence that’s second to none, she’s your hostess with the MO-stess, actress extraordinaire and a star-crossed diva ready to Capu-let you have it.
RUBY SLIPPERS - HEAD JUDGE
A high-femme kaleidoscopic cyclone of extroversion and light perversion, Ruby Slippers lives by the motto that you’re either Dorothy, or you’re the twister. She's campy yet vampy, a clown-in-a-gown, burlesque supervillain and drag disruptor. A serial name-dropper, she’s shared the stage with Amanda Lepore, Brooke Candy, Pabllo Vittar, The Boulet Brothers and Boy George, and Michelle Visage has called her work “incredible”. Enough said.
SAINT EVE - GUEST JUDGE HEAT ONE
Saturated with sass and swag, Saint Eve is an international cabaret, burlesque, dance and fire artist superstar. Starting off their career as a contemporary dancer at Brent Street, they have danced on the West End at the PALLADIUM, danced for Strictly Come Dancing, for RuPaul herself as well as well as UK tours with USA and UK queens, appeared in Vogue for dancing at Italian Mens Fashion week, to doing stunt work for an international cheese commercial. Saint Eve defines the term chameleon and knows how to blend in and stand out.
ROXY RAWHIDE - GUEST JUDGE HEAT TWO
Strap in and strap on - it's Roxy Rawhide! Naarm's favourite ex-boyfriend and crowned Feral! Prom King 25, Roxy is a force of queer audacious chaos, where the sex appeal of a confused, chronically online queer collides with the unfiltered comedy of that one weird uncle your family uninvites. Roxy is Naarm’s premier cosplay king, bringing to life our favorite characters and celebrating all the best and most overhyped bits of white boy mediocrity. His performances aren't just diverse - they are neurodiverse!
JUSTIN TELIQURE - GUEST JUDGE HEAT THREE
Justin Teliqure is Naarm's drag king pretty party boy. He is a triple threat entertaining audiences with his dance moves, comedic routines and smooth vocals. Voted Mx Congeniality in the MEDEAS 2024 and a Judge in 2025, Justin loves to spread positive vibes in any space he takes up and is a staple on Naarm’s biggest drag stages!
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KITTY OBSIDIAN - GUEST JUDGE HEAT FOUR
Fierce, fat and FAborigional! Kitty Obsidian is a proud Wiradjuri/Gamilaroi trans performer specialising in slow seduction, ferocious fetish & sickening sideshow! Hailed as aggressively queer, Kitty is a teacher, mentor, producer & father of Haus of Obsidian - an all BIPOC queer burlesque & Drag house.
Titled VIC NAIDOC LGBTIQ+ person of the year 2022, GLOBE VIC winner for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts 2023, TG VIC Creative of the year 2024 & Trans person of the year 2024; Kitty loves to bring their award winning brand of activism & art together.
LAZY SUSAN - GUEST JUDGE GRAND FINAL
Winner of Drag Race Down Under Season 4, Lazy Susan is known for her zany sense of humor and kooky drag aesthetic, captivating audiences with her unpredictable runway looks and comedic timing. A drag queen and filmmaker, Lazy Susan has enjoyed sold out shows at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, performed alongside Charli XCX, appeared in a Troye Sivan music video and is a standout figure in the Australian drag scene.
JOHNNY GASH - REIGNING CHAMPION JUDGE GRAND FINAL
The king of theatrics and hysterics, Johnny Gash is Naarm's toxic, mediocre, rock n' roll ex-boyfriend. Your favourite wet mess, he's here to vibrate his vocal folds and your lower folds. Johnny Gash was birthed against his will in 2021, and has been performing nationally and internationally since. Notable credits include their mainstage musical theatre debut as Anatole in “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812” with Darlinghurst Theatre Company in 2023, being crowned Naarm’s altimate.SHOWDOWN Champion in 2024, and headlining Hakuba Gay Ski Week in 2025. Gender bending and gender ending, he’s the red flag that makes you gag, Johnny Gash!
IRA LUXURIA - SEASON ONE CHAMPION JUDGE GRAND FINAL
Bringing the full range of masculinity, femininity and sheer audacity, draglesque dandy Ira Luxuria is a cabaret menace and a fanatic of filth, frivolity and f*cking about. Ira was crowned Naarm altimate.SHOWDOWN Champion 2023 and produces and performs with The Pelvic Thrusts - Melbourne's smuttiest Rocky Horror shadow cast. Come for the concept, stay for the seduction, and give in to The Original Sin Themself – IRA LUXURIA.
MIDSUMMA - MAJOR SPONSOR JUDGE GRAND FINAL
A representative from Midsumma, to be announced. Midsumma is Australia's premier queer arts and cultural organisation, bringing together a diverse mix of LGBTQIA+ artists, performers, communities and audiences. Known for their primary event Midsumma Festival, The Midsumma Festival program comprises a curated Midsumma Presents line-up plus the community-driven Open-access stream, to share with you the lived experiences of those voices at the margins, the expression of queer history, and the celebration of new ideas and stories that come to life through world-class art and performance. We are beyond excited to have this powerhouse of queer art sponsor altimate.SHOWDOWN.
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