Originally trained as a brand consultant, a 5-hour meeting with a leading high-street retailer about their toilet tissue range convinced Menno to try and make his way from the boardroom to Broadway.

After a few stints in touring theatre production and as a host at Madam Tussauds, Menno performed in ‘News Revue’ at The Canal Café Theatre, now in the Guinness Book Of Records as the world’s longest running live satirical sketch show. This was also the first time he became involved as a writer, contributing various sketches and songs that ended in the ‘best of News Revue’ run at the end of the year. His sketches and songs have also featured in The Treason Show at the Komedia in Brighton.

On TV he is best known for his appearance on Sky TV’s “Naked Angels In Beach Paradise”. He also starred in Channel 4’s “Meet The Magoons” and BBC Horizon’s “Dr Money & The Boy With No Penis”.

Having been cast more than once as a drag queen, transvestite and transsexual, Menno was keen to ‘just be a guy’, and started performing his own material on the London comedy and cabaret scene. He also began working on his first show, “The Gaydar Diaries”, which premiered in 2006 and played to packed houses in Brighton, London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

He is currently doing his first one-man show “BUTCH – A Queen’s Struggle To Become A King” at the Edinburgh Festival. The show explores preconceived ideas about masculinity, sexuality and gender roles.

Menno is currently developing ideas for a documentary “Straight To Heaven Or Bend For Hell? – The Spiritual Case For Homosexuals”, which looks at homosexuality from various spiritual points of view.