Entertainer
Drag Aerobics
Burlesque Artist
Host & Compère
DJ
Cabaret Producer
Corporate & Private Events
Creator
About Dolly Trolley
Find her up and down the aisles or going rusty upturned in a ditch, Dolly Trolley is a Yorkshire-born drag queen based in London who is completely bonkers, utterly delightful and always at 100mph. Since debuting in early 2017, she’s become a household name of the UK drag and cabaret scene known for her high energy performances, sublimely ridiculous comedy acts, ferocious dance moves, hilarious parodies, and rip-roaring hosting. She’s a versatile performer full of surprises, commonly reviewed: “I’m exhausted just from watching”.
Not only a regular feature of the UK’s top cabarets and drag shows, Dolly is the creator, producer and host of a London’s deep & full-bodied draglesque show: Cabaret Sauvignon. She placed 2nd in Miss Burlesque UK 2019, has performed in burlesque festivals around the UK, Europe and Australia, and in summertime is often found entertaining at Prides and music festivals, including Green Man Festival where she is Associate Artist for their infamous Wishbone stage.
Dolly Trolley is the world’s leading drag fitness instructor (unofficially self-titled but unchallenged) with Drag Aerobics, which she created in Shoreditch in February 2019, a dancercise party workout event, and took the class online when coronavirus hit the UK in March 2020 where it became a global internet phenomenon and continues to be a favourite weekly online event.
In 2025, Dolly was awarded the Freedom of the City of London, in recognition of her contributions to the city as a drag performer. She grew up in a working class and single parent family in Leeds, performing alongside education or work since her early teens. Before embarking on full-time performing, she had a data analytics career in the airline and tourism industry after graduating from Oxford University with a masters degree in Mathematics.
Cabaret & Performance Credits include
Hebden Bridge Burlesque Festival
Leeds Cabaret & Burlesque Festival
Oslo Burlesque Festival
Hamburg Burlesque Festival
Glasgow Festival of Burlesque
Boylesque Drag Festival Berlin
Perth Fringe Festival
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Brighton Fringe Festival
Green Man Festival
Boomtown Fair Festival
Underbelly Festival
Royal Greenwich Together Festival
Pride in London Cabaret Stage
Berlin Pride Christopher Street Day: Kollonadenhof
Peacock Lounge Leicester
Wales Millennium Centre
Albert’s Schloss: London, Manchester, Liverpool & Birmingham
York Theatre Royal
London Lovecraft Festival
The Drag Circus
The Shard
Cheek Of It Burlesque
Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
Oxphwoard
Hooray Cabaret
Luscious Cabaret
100 Watt Club
Alberts Schloss
Clapham Grand
Revenge Bar Brighton
National Student Pride
West London Queer Project
The Curtain
The Londoner Hotel
SITU Live, Westfield
Science Museum, London
Woolwich Works, London
Betty & Joan’s, London
Boomtown x Elrow at Drumsheds, London
Art in Flux at Barbican Cinema
& more
Clients have included
Google
TikTok
Mondelēz: Cadbury, Oreo, Belvita, Toblerone
Condé Nast
Tapestry Inc.
BRIT Awards
EasyJet
TCS
Lush
Samsung
Linklaters
Hootsuite
Apple TV
WeWork
Havas
Bauer Media Group
EY
Diageo
McCann Enterprise
Aviva
Josh Wood Colour
Sweaty Betty
Oddbox
Grant Thornton
Leeds Law Society
Law Business Research
Eaton House Studio
National Grid
Mosaic LGBT+ Young Person’s Trust
Anthony Nolan Trust
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Hootsuite
Clink Hostels
Optimove
BVCA
Porter Novelli
Popcorn PR
Bristows LLP
Recipe Advertising
Leeds Law Society
British Small Animal Veterinary Association
Los Angeles Librarians’ Guild
NHS England
Highways England
Islington Council
Imperial College London
Queen Mary University of London
University of the Arts London
& more
She has appeared on
BBC One, Live on BBC Breakfast
SkyOne's Rob & Romesh Vs Drag
BBC Radio 1
Youtube channel of The Sidemen
She has featured in PR campaigns and events for
Asos
Jaguar Land Rover
Fitbit
Very
Lululemon
The Perfume Shop
Halo Top
Her work has received coverage from media such as
BBC Radio 1
BBC News
Good Morning Britain
GQ magazine
TimeOut
Rock N Roll Bride Magazine
London Evening Standard
New York Magazine
Yorkshire Evening Post
& more