Sasha Velour is a gender-fluid drag queen known for her stage spectacles, fierce activism, and boundary-breaking scholarship. Sasha is the founder and director of the acclaimed NYC drag revue NightGowns. Her first one-queen show, Smoke & Mirrors, toured to 90 theaters around the world from 2019-2022, including the Folies Bergère and the London Palladium. She recently released a best-selling book, The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag, which outlines the untold history of drag alongside her own life’s adventures (Harper, 2023). She is currently on tour with a stage show of the same name.

In 2017, Sasha won the 9th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and the long-running competition won its first Emmy! In 2020, she executive produced and starred in a short adaptation of NightGowns directed by Sophie Muller and co-produced by The Documentary Group, which received the 2021 RealScreen Award. In 2023, Sasha joined the cast of HBO’s We’re Here (Season 4 Coming Soon). In summer 2024, she will debut her newest theater piece, co-created with the Tony Award-winning Tectonic Theater Project and director Moisés Kaufman.

As an illustrator and designer, Sasha has produced several comic books, including a series about the Stonewall uprising (2012-2019) and an anthology about drag called Velour (2013-2018). She drew the Google Doodle for Marlene Dietrich in 2018, and created a self-portrait for the cover of The New Yorker in 2023.

Sasha lives in Brooklyn with her partner Johnny Velour and their dog, Vanya.

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