Feature Friday - Augusta Wind
Name
Augusta Wind
Pronouns
She/Her
Bio
Something Wicked this way Blows 🌬️💨 And it’s a good blow, it’s Augusta Wind! The fiercest singing Diva of Montreal, this theatrically trained META winning artist has been gagging the scene ever since winning Drag Moi, a prestigious beginner drag competition held at Mado, back in 2022. A student of the Theatre, Miss Wind is known for her remarkable lip sync ability, her powerhouse voice, and truly being the hostess with the mostest. She’s famous for her quick wit on the mic, as well as becoming a staple in the community with her street show: The Winds Of Our Lives. Do you smell that? IT’S AUGUSTA WIND🌬️💨
Instagram
@the_augusta_wind
Where in Montreal are you located?
You can most often catch Augusta Wind performing on St Laurent at Club DDs, her home bar. However, she performs all over the island of Montreal, and off island too! She is originally from the West Island.
What do you love about that neighborhood?
I love the available parking everywhere, and the spacious parks and wooded areas where I can connect more with nature and get away from people.
What’s your favourite art space in Montreal and why?
Honestly, up until it closed not long ago, I would have said the Mainline theatre. A lot of incredible works and pieces were born out of that space, and I personally had a lot of remarkable experiences there both working on stage, and seeing many awesome shows. Most notable of my time at the Mainline would definitely be The Rocky Horror show which would happen every year around Halloween, and in which I got to play the one and only Dr Frank n Furter, an absolute dream role of mine. The space may have closed, but the impact it has had on all of our lives will not be soon forgotten.
What do you do on stage? Tell us about your work!
What don’t I do on stage, really? I’m known for quite a few things. Out of drag, I am a professionally trained actor. I graduated from John Abbott College’s Professional Theatre program, and have since gone on to pursue a career in acting. I specialize in musical theatre. I have trained vocally with a coach for years, and have been singing since the age of 12. The idea was always that I would be a performer, but when that pandemic hit and live theatre was at an all time pause, that’s when makeup and drag started to peak my interest. There wasn’t much to do at the time but stay at home, watch drag race, and try on some makeup. It was in the solitude of the pandemic that I started to realize that I needed to do drag. It was a calling. Being that I was from the theatre, I took drag as an opportunity to do anything I’ve ever wanted to do that broke convention. I could play any female part I wanted, I could sing any song I chose, I wouldn’t have to wait for someone to cast me in a show, I can create my own work and produce my own shows. Drag became a way to reclaim my power in an industry that wasn’t easy at the best of times, and certainly wasn’t doing me any favours during the pandemic.
Along the way, I grasped more of my taste and style. I honed in on skills like improving and crowd work, my makeup improved, my wigs got bigger, my looks got brighter, and before I knew it, I grew into the grand dame diva herself: Miss Augusta Wind.
Describe your art in your own words.
My art is love. My art is loud. My art is impactful. My art is beautiful. My art is my self expression. My art is my obsessions from childhood. My art is gay rights. My art is Queer Joy. My art is shared freedom. My art is vicarious liberation.
What have you been working on recently?
Most recently I have been producing shows at my home bar, Club DD’s which opened up in September of 2025. It’s been such a privilege getting to be one of the home Queens of this bar, and getting to produce the shows we do. I have a biweekly Thursday show I do with my good sis Little Star, it’s Called Double D Thursdays, and it’s a night of Drag, live Dj, and dance, of course. Another show I produce monthly at Club DD’s is my musical theatre cabaret Broadway Babies, where the whole joint becomes a Whoopie spot, where the gin is cold but the piano’s HOT! And we perform the night away with incredible cabaret acts that all fall under the musical theatre canon. In addition to these live shows I produce, this year is also the year I created my street show The Winds Of Our Lives. A show where I go around night life in Montreal and interview people to ask how their nights going, and what their favourite things to do in Montreal are. Starting that show has been such a joy, and it’s something that I am continually working on and growing with.
What drew you to the stage?
The stage has always felt like home to me. Ever since I was a child, I was always very different than the others around me. I was more opinionated, louder, more confident, and incredibly misunderstood. People did not know how to interpret me, and really didn’t know what to do with me. But something magical would happen when I was put on stage. Suddenly, it all made sense, suddenly, I made sense. There was an ease to it, like it was what I was meant to do. The first time I ever made an audience laugh, I had never felt power like that before in my life. And it was absolutely addicting, I would chase that feeling for a long time going forward. As the years went on, my relationship with the stage only deepened, and became far more meaningful. As I delved further in my craft, the stage became more of a spiritual place for me. A place where I was being called to share the truth that lived in my heart. And in turn, receive the truth felt by others. It is a place of give and take, and the relationship with an audience is one I have always seemingly been very good with.
Who are some of your favourite stage performers?
Idina Menzel, Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, Freddie Mercury, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Ariana Grande, Madonna, Adele
Tell us about your BEST or WORST performance.
My worst performance was hands down when I tried to sing Let It Go at a talent show in college. I started strong, but the nerves got the absolute better of me, and my voice started to weaken as the song went on, and I absolutely butchered the last notes of the song. It was really bad. Cringy bad. Like, if you were in the audience, you were embarrassed FOR me. Learned a lot from that experience, though.
What’s your favorite Montreal stage and why?
This is a great question. I have different answers for different sentimental reasons, however my favourite stage to perform on specifically in Drag would have to be the stage at Cabaret Mado. It’s just really fierce, and very suited for drag. It has a dramatic middle entrance from theatrical curtains, the lighting is probably some of the best for drag in MTL, and you can see everyone from the stage. You are surrounded on each side too so you can have a lot of fun playing to different sides of the room.
