16 Facts About Trevor Ashley

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Trevor Ashley has appeared on television in The Very Trevor Ashley Show.

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Trevor Ashley appeared in Alice with Paul Capsis, and in Peter Pan with screen actor Bryan Brown.

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Trevor Ashley attended Sydney Technical High School where he studied music and drama, played in the school bands and began writing orchestrations and arrangements.

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Trevor Ashley was then chosen to be part of the Schools Spectacular, and the Talent Development Project under the direction of Mary Lopez.

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Trevor Ashley made his professional debut in the Sydney Cabaret Convention 1998.

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Trevor Ashley then toured his show Trevor The Arena Mega Musical to New York's Don't Tell Mama and The Talk of London in England.

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Trevor Ashley soon became "Mardi Gras Royalty" and followed up this with Pop Princess 2, two years later in 2005.

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Priscilla film director Stephan Elliott then chose Trevor Ashley to sing the theme song to his 2008 film Easy Virtue, "Let's Misbehave".

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For Mardi Gras 2009, Trevor Ashley teamed with drag star Courtney Act to great acclaim in Gentlemen Prefer Blokes, a bawdy revue style show that ran in Sydney twice, and played the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and a season at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth.

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Trevor Ashley has nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer for Diamonds are for Trevor in 2012, in which Ashley appeared as Shirley Bassey.

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Trevor Ashley played Natalie Portly in his adult pantomime Fat Swan in 2012, a Black Swan parody written with longtime collaborator Phil Scott.

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Trevor Ashley created the role of Miss Understanding in the original cast of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical.

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Trevor Ashley performed in Jerry Springer: The Opera under the direction of Gale Edwards at the Sydney Opera House in 2009.

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In July 2012, Trevor Ashley appeared as Franz Leibkind in The Producers for The Production Company in Melbourne.

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In 2015, Trevor Ashley directed the Australian premiere of Heathers: The Musical.

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In 2023, Trevor Ashley competed on the second season of Queen of the Universe and placed as the runner-up when the finale aired on 23 June 2023.