Nando Messias is a founder member of the Eat Your Heart Out Collective and has been working as a performer and as a movement director for the Theo Adams Company, with whom he has performed in Tokyo, at the ICA in London and in Austria.  In 2009, Nando appeared alongside Vaginal Davis in Bruce La Bruce’s theatrical production of The Bad Breast in Berlin. Messias graduated from the Central School of Speech&Drama, London, where his research focused on the intersections between the social and the performance elements of the sissy body, abuse and space. Since moving to Britain, he has worked extensively in the East London cabaret scene.