Sasha Velour

Sasha Velour is a drag queen, artist, and author who is the creator and host of “NightGowns”, running for over 10 years in New York City--considered to be one of the best drag shows of all time. She is widely known for being the winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 9.

Since the release of her best-selling book The Big Reveal, An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag (Harpers) in 2023 the "RuPaul’s Drag Race"-winner became a host on HBO’s “We’re Here”, a judge on the world’s first televised Drag King competition, “King of Drag” (Revry), hosted the official Drag Race tour, “Werq the World” on three continents, and brought a stage adaptation of her book "The Big Reveal" to such prestigious theaters as The London Palladium, Folies Bergère, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, La MaMa, and The Wallis. Her beloved NY-based drag revue “NightGowns” celebrated ten years of sold-out shows this past August and in 2025 alone, raised over 50k for LGBTQIA+ mutual aid, immigration, and Gaza.

Her new show TRAVESTY will have its world-premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C. this March.