Millicent Binks | |
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Occupation(s) | Writer, performance artist |
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Millicent Binks is an English writer and performance artist. She wrote a column about her life in The London Evening Standard. [1]
Binks grew up in Suffolk, England. Her father is a nuclear physicist and her mother is a linguist.
When Binks first moved to London she enrolled on a Creative Writing degree which she dropped out of after three months to pursue a burlesque performance career, but kept writing for her own pleasure.
In April 2011, the London Evening Standard approached her to be their new sex columnist. Her writing style is tongue-in-cheek and humorous, whilst documenting her and her friends' sex lives in London regularly commenting on fashion and lingerie, with a readership of up to 2 million every week. [2] In October 2018 she was on the cover of The Sunday Times Magazine for a piece she wrote about chatting up men in different personae. [3]
Fascinated with the performance art and burlesque she came across in London, she decided to try it herself, combining her love of costume, dance and characterisation. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Costume Interpretation from Wimbledon College of Arts. [4] She performed her English Rose show at The Gentry de Paris Revue, who Binks is greatly influenced by. [5] She has performed all over Europe and had a monthly residency in Istanbul. [6] Binks has performed for British BAFTA Award-winning Artist Alison Jackson. [7]