Lola the Vamp

Lola the Vamp, also known as Lola Montgomery and Meghann Montgomery, is an Australian scholar and performance artist who is part of the neo-burlesque movement. Her PhD research at Griffith University included her burlesque performance, and she is a senior lecturer at the SAE Creative Media Institute in Brisbane. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Arts, with majors in Theatre and Visual Art at Griffith University.

Her academic work includes presentations at Tease-o-rama conferences in 2003 and 2005, at Australian National University as part of the Canberra Fringe Festival in 2009, and The Beyond Burlesque Symposium at the La Trobe University Australian Centre for the Moving Image in 2010. in Creative and Performing Arts at Griffith University. She incorporates various props and costumes into what she has described as a "performance of the fetish." the Woodford Folk Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a tour of the east coast of Australia. She began performing at the Australian Burlesque Festival in 2010, and was a headline act in 2013. She performed at Tease-o-rama in 2005, and was a headliner in 2008 with Cirque Du Soleil, Catherine D'lish, Dirty Martini and Kitten on the Keys. She also performed in Vamp & Burn at the Wonderland Spiegeltent with Desert Blues Cartel. A 2013 review in The Examiner described her headpiece as a "bejewelled shroud of feathers" with a "matching showy neckpiece," stating she "seems to be the embodiment of traditional burlesque" and "Her face and personality, and how she uses them, are all just as important as the magnificent costumes."

In 2010, she operated Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School in Brisbane, a franchise owned by illustrator Molly Crabapple.