Lauren ‘Lolly Dolly’ Thiel

Passionate Bites

Lauren ‘Lolly Dolly’ Thiel – Passionate Bites – Adelaide Fringe 2021 – Ep 17

Lauren Thiel is founder of boutique accounting firm, The Real Thiel. A Chartered Accountant, with a passion for the arts, Lauren is on a mission to educate, empower and motivate creative small business owners.

Lauren has a double degree in Tourism and Event Management, and Commerce, with a major in accounting, and spent her early years in the industry with KPMG Adelaide. She founded her first Company, a dance school, at just 22, and today continues to contribute to the arts through her role as Treasurer, Board member and Festival Producer of the Cabaret Fringe Festival.

Her passion for dance & burlesque can occasionally be seen on stage, which she returned during Adelaide Fringe 2021. Lauren may very well be the only accountant we know who can also do the entire “single ladies” dance routine.

Passionate Bites Podcast is our short form version of Things People Are Passionate About. Quick little podcast episodes around current topics, ideas, events or people.

Lauren Thiel Passionate Bites Podcast Adelaide Fringe 2021

Late Night Dynamite – Click for tickets

Set your Fringe-Fuse alight with Katie Wright Dynamite and her wild late-night variety show. Jaw dropping circus, hottest of the hot burlesque, legendary stand up and twisted sideshow freaks – all unleashed back on the stage where they belong. Explosive artists ready to blow you away! BOOM!

“Katie Wright Dynamite, a cross between a juggler, a burlesque performer and someone who would befriend you in the line of the ladies toilets” – Upside Adelaide.

“I have engaged Kate to perform her hilarious comedy show at many corporate and arts events. Kate is always the crowd favourite winning over audiences with her great Australian sense of humour and unique circus skills” – Greg Clarke, Former Director and CEO Adelaide Fringe Festival.

“As a female performer, Kate has avoided the clichés and well trodden routes of others and instead dared to take risks in her shows – risks which have led to much more interesting journeys for the audience.” – Will Chamberlain, Artistic Director of Festival of Fools, Belfast.

“She’s gorgeous and funny- the real deal!” – Jodi Wright, Director Christchurch World Busking Festival (2012).

“Great character comedy and first rate circus skills. Stage or street Katie Wright is a charismatic and versatile performer who always delivers’ – Brendan Coleman, Festival Director of Fremantle Street Arts Festival (2012).