Critically acclaimed gender-fluid drag queen, visual artist, speaker, illustrator, and newly minted author Sasha Velour has been a force in the international drag scene long before her scene-stealing, rose-petal-filled win on season nine of the Emmy Award-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race.In April, she published her first book, The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag (Harper), which was heralded as ”a rousing tribute to a revolutionary art form and its practitioners” (Publisher’s Weekly).
A first-of-its-kind book, Velour’s work thoughtfully weaves memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art form, illuminating drag as a unique form of expression with a rich history.
Sasha Velour’sThe Big Reveal Live Show!, a new stage work created
in connection to the book, toured to sold-out houses in the US and
Canada earlier this year. Velour will be one of the new hosts for the
fourth season the Peabody and Emmy-Award winning television show We’re
Here, on HBO. Velour was also recently commissioned by the Tony Award-
winning Tectonic Theatre Project to star in and co-create (alongside
legendary director Moises Kaufman) a new theatrical work which will
premiere in 2024. Velour’s first one-queen drag show Smoke & Mirrors
was called a “spell-binding tour de force” (Forbes) and bewitched
audiences and critics alike, touring from 2019-2022 to over 80 cities
around the world including sold-out performances at the London
Palladium, Paris’ Folies Bergère, antheaters in New York City, Los
Angeles, Chicago, Vancouver, Auckland, Warsaw, and more. Her acclaimed
NYC drag show NightGowns, founded in 2015, has hosted some of the
world’s greatest drag performers and was adapted into a docu-series
directed by Sophie Muller and The Documentary Group in 2020. NightGowns
recently completed a sold-out residency at Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge
and will resume performances in January 2024.
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