Category is — Art on Legs

InaPropriette

Cape Town drag artist, ballroom performer and storyteller. Not a drag show — an entire experience.

  • Cape Town, South Africa
  • Miss Sovereign Western Cape 2023
  • Founder, House of Indecency
  • Available for bookings
Portrait of Ina Propriette
Category is01 — The Artist

Weird, on purpose

Ina Propriette is a born-and-bred Capetonian drag artist and entertainer whose work refuses to sit still. Power ballads. Vogue dips and spins. Classic theatre cabaret. Conceptual drag art. She can travel from pageant queen to opera diva to clown jester to club kid in the span of three lipsyncs — and does, regularly.

She is a storyteller first. Every look is built to carry an idea, and the idea is usually one the room was not expecting. Her early pageant appearances — bare chest, nipple tassels, a silhouette nobody else in the scene was doing — split opinion sharply, which was precisely the point. Boundary-pushing is not a phase of the work; it is the work.

Today she performs across Cape Town's stages, from theatre houses to the city's underground queer venues, and hosts and curates ballroom functions as a multiple grand-prize trophy winner in her own right.

I always tell people that I didn't choose drag — drag chose me. Ina Propriette
Category is02 — Runway & Credits

Tens across the board

  • Ina Propriette crowned Miss Sovereign Western Cape 2023, wearing an orange gown, crown and sash, seated on a gold throne
    2023

    Miss Sovereign Western Cape

    Crowned at the most prestigious drag pageant in South Africa.

    Title
  • Ina Propriette in an elaborate blue headdress and beaded ruff costume, in profile inside a stone cathedral, from Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap
    2024

    Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap

    Cast member on the Showmax Original series spotlighting Cape Town's leading drag talent, told in Gayle with subtitles.

    Television
  • Ina Propriette in an elaborate blue feathered headdress and jewelled gauntlets, from The Blueprint
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    The Blueprint

    Debut solo theatre drag show, presented by HAUS at the Baxter Theatre Centre.

    Theatre
  • Ina Propriette performing a dip on a rainbow-painted runway in a red outfit at The Love Pride Ball
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    Vogue

    Featured as part of the magazine's coverage of the Cape Town drag scene.

    Press
  • Ina Propriette posing with a fellow drag performer at a Sheer Culture event
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    Shared stages

    Has performed alongside Morgan McMichaels, Alaska, Brooke Lynn Hytes and Manila Luzon.

    Live
  • Ina Propriette in a dramatic spiked silver headdress and black gloves backstage at Sheer City
    2026

    Sheer City

    Shared hosting duties for the ballroom programme alongside Cheshire Vineyard, mother of the South African chapter of the House of Vineyard.

    Hosting
Category is03 — The House

House of Indecency

The House of Indecency is Ina's kiki house — her point of view on a Cape Town ballroom scene she watched grow crowded with elaborate themes and elaborate entry fees. Her answer was to build functions around the thing the community actually needed: access.

Tickets to The Nitty-Gritty Ball, the house's second function, started at R60. The house has since staged The Dearly Beloved Kiki Function at The Outlore Base — billed as a ceremony of remembrance, expression and transformation.

Realness, self-expression, and chosen family. Ina, on what ballroom stands for

Home floor

EVOL

Cracked walls, a checkered dancefloor, and a history of housing the city's underground.

Record

Grand prize

Multiple grand-prize trophies and a vogue performance built on whiplash.

Category is04 — The Journey

How Ina got here

  1. 2015
    A dorm room and a brushMakeup started as something to do for fun, with no plan attached to it.
  2. 2016
    Dancing With The QueensFirst appearance in drag, at the debut of a Latin American and ballroom competition. A former dancer had to enter. Ina was born there.
  3. 2017
    Into the pageant circuitFirst steps onto the pageant stage and into the wider Cape Town scene.
  4. 2018
    First show at Zer021 SocialThe start of a continuous performing career.
  5. 2023
    Miss Sovereign Western CapeThe national circuit's most prestigious crown.
  6. 2024
    On screenBeaulah: Queens van die Kaap premieres on Showmax.
  7. 2025
    The house opensHouse of Indecency is founded; The Something Blue Ball is followed by The Nitty-Gritty Ball at EVOL.
  8. 2026
    Still building the floorHosting at Sheer City and curating The Dearly Beloved Kiki Function.
Category is05 — Watch
Category is06 — Bookings

Book Ina

Available for club nights, theatre seasons, pageants and ball hosting, corporate and brand events, Pride programming, private functions, and content collaborations. Cape Town based, and travels.

WhatsApp bookings Email DM on Instagram

Response within 3 working days.
Rates on request — they vary by set length, travel and production.

Include in your enquiry

  • Date, call time and set length
  • Venue, city and stage or floor dimensions
  • Type of booking — performance, hosting, judging, appearance
  • Number of looks or numbers required
  • Sound, lighting and dressing-room provision
  • Budget range and whether travel is covered