Performer - Mistress Mae
Writer/Producer - Meg van Wyk
Director - Dara Beth
Musical Director/Accompanist - Garreth Robertson

Mistress Mae Aisitahn-Yafais a self-proclaimed ‘dommedienne’, knows how to dominate a scene and hold an audience in the palm of her hand.
With cabaret roots stemming from The Mercury Cabaret in Hong Kong, Mistress Mae has been performing shameless chanson and hosting raunchy repertory since 2018 and is delighted to add her unique flavour of debauchery to the melting pot of South Africa’s alternative entertainment scene. Mistress Mae produces Eat Your Heart Out - a bi-monthly variety show for the kinky and curious, and has featured some of the hottest acts in Cape Town since its inception in 2024. She looks forward to introducing audiences to her solo cabaret titled s'il vous plaît in 2025.

Dara Beth is an angry Jewish feminist and award-winning writer-director. Their main focus is to provide an audience with a language and vocabulary to explore new worlds. Dara has written and staged multiple original works for various festivals and theatres such as Nasty Womxn, Just A Song And A Dance, Lolly, and all my ex-lovers are dead to name a few. Dara has been nominated for Fleur du Cap, BroadwayWorld, and Kanna awards. When not producing their own work, Dara often works as a facilitator, director, designer, and producer. In 2025, Dara is set to direct their first feature film and a host of new theatre productions, including s'il vous plaît.

Garreth Robertson currently works as an accompanist, répétiteur (classical & musical theatre), and chamber music lecturer at Rhodes University. Deeply passionate about piano education, he regularly supports the piano department as a sabbatical replacement piano lecturer.

Passionate about performance, Garreth has collaborated extensively with a range of nationally and internationally acclaimed musicians and has frequently collaborated with members from the Wits Trio and the Odeion String Quartet. In 2017 he, alongside Soprano Emma Farquharson received the Encore Ovation award for a production of Opera and Musical Theatre works titled “Opera Found”.  Garreth has also appeared as a concerto soloist with several prominent orchestras, including the Buffalo City Municipality Orchestra (BCMO), Rhodes University Concert Orchestra (RUCO), Free State Youth Orchestra (FSYO), Nelson Mandela University Symphony Orchestra (NMUSO), and the Makana Community Orchestra (MCO). Notably, in 2023 he premiered Emil Hartmann’s piano concerto in South Africa, which was also the second performance of the work world wide.

Garreth completed his Bachelor of Music (Honours) and Master of Music (Performance) degrees, both with cum laude at Rhodes University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in chamber music performance and thesis.

Meg van Wyk is the founder and director of Fruity Lix Productions (Pty) Ltd and the creatrix of the characters Pichi Keane and Mistress Mae. They have written and produced award-winning cabarets such as Ripe 'n Ready (Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award, 2023) and Freshly Squeezed (Standard Bank Ovation Award, 2024).