Olympian cabaret artist scores crowd-funding gold

The Australian diver’s campaign to raise funds for his inaugural cabaret show made over $5000 in six hours.

2 Dec 2013 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Photo by John McRae

Australian diver and Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham is set to make his debut as a cabaret performer in 2014, with an original show based on his recent autobiography, Twists and Turns.

Funding for the show has been raised through the crowd-sourcing platform Pozible, with unprecedented success.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts