ALASKA 5000
Gynecia
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Alaska 5000 is a drag performer and recording artist best known for competing in the fifth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and as the winner of the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars. She has traveled the world touring her chart-topping hits from her albums (Anus, Poundcake, Vagina, and Red 4 Filth) and has appeared in television (VH1’s Scared Famous, The Bachelorette) and film (The Quiet Room, The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time). She currently co-hosts the hit podcast Race Chaser with Willam, and continues to inspire the people of Earth with her unmistakable brand of irreverent humor and extraterrestrial glamour.
LEA DELARIA
Basilius
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Lea DeLaria is best known for her break-out three-time, SAG Award-winning role of ‘Big Boo’ in Orange is the New Black. She can also be seen as ‘Professor Mendelson’ in Physical, ‘Queenie’ in Reprisal, and ‘Molly Yarnchopper’ in Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. Lea can currently be heard in the Marvel Wastelanders Podcast, Hawkeye, as ‘Raven,’ and in Audible’s Thriller, The Vanishing Negative. Additional TV credits include Shameless, Broad City, Baroness Von Sketch, Clarence, Californication, Law & Order: SVU, Will & Grace, and Friends. Selected film credits include the voice of ‘Miss Fritter’ in Cars 3, Potato Dreams of America, Support The Girls, and First Wives Club. Lea appeared on Broadway as ‘Eddie/Dr. Scott’ in The Rocky Horror Show, as ‘Hildy’ in the Public Theater’s On The Town (Obie, Theatre World Awards), and in too many Off-Broadway plays to mention. Lea has five records on the Warner Jazz and Classic label; her sixth, House of David, was released in 2015.
@realleadelaria | leadelaria.com
YUREL ECHEZARRETA
The Player
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Yurel is thrilled to be making his Pasadena Playhouse debut! It’s an honor to be working in such a reputable theater alongside amazing artists and creators. Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, Head Over Heels, Aladdin, Matilda, La Cage aux Folles, West Side Story. TV / Film: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (Dec. 2021), The Last Five Years, Alternatino, Odd Mom Out, among others. Grateful to my agents at the Hybrid Agency and Ad Astra Management.
IG | @yurele
FREDDIE
Pythio / The Oracle
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Freddie is a musician and drag performer from Oakland, California. Last year, Freddie released their debut Melanin Monroe EP, which has now amassed over 1,000,000 streams. Now based in Los Angeles, Freddie is making their theater debut at the Pasadena Playhouse for Head Over Heels.
IG | @eastbayvicious
TIFFANY MANN
Pamela
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TV: NBC’s New Amsterdam, NBC’s Rise, and Orange is the New Black. Broadway: Be More Chill and Waitress. Off-Broadway: Jerry Springer the Opera (Lucille Lortel Award), Invisible Thread, and Cabin in the Sky. Other theater: Smokey Joe’s Cafe at The Muny, Dreamgirls, Live from Lincoln Center: Sweeney Todd.
GEORGE SALAZAR
Musidorus
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George was last seen onstage as ‘Seymour’ in Pasadena Playhouse’s critically acclaimed production of Little Shop of Horrors and is beyond thrilled to return to the Playhouse in Head Over Heels. He is best known for originating the role of ‘Michael Mell’ in Be More Chill (Lucille Lortel Award, two Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, and Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Award nominations). Other NY theater credits include Godspell (2011 Broadway revival), The Lightning Thief (Drama Desk nomination); tick, tick…BOOM!; Here Lies Love. TV credits include ‘George Conway’ in Impeachment: American Crime Story; ‘Eric Sosa’ in Superstore; Nancy Drew; Bull; Divorce. Albums: Two-Player Game, Be More Chill, The Lightning Thief, The Jonathan Larson Project, Godspell.
IG | @georgsalazar
EMILY SKEGGS
Mopsa
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Emily is a Tony and Grammy Award-nominated actor, writer, and vocalist. A born and bred New Yorker, Emily was nominated for both a Tony and Grammy Award for their work in the Broadway award-winning production of Fun Home, directed by Sam Gold. Off-Broadway and regional theater credits include Take Me Along and Transport at the off-Broadway Irish Rep, David Cromer’s Our Town at the Huntington Theater Company, and Naomi Wallace’s And I and Silence at the Signature Theatre Company. Film and television credits include WGN’s Salem, Dustin Lance Black’s ABC miniseries When We Rise, and Lifetime’s Love You To Death starring opposite Marcia Gay Harden, the American High feature The Ultimate Playlist of Noise on Hulu, and the anticipated feature Dinner in America, from director Adam Rehmeier, which debuted at Sundance 2020. You can currently find Emily in Los Angeles, where they maintain a small urban food farm. She recently taught her cat to sit.
SHANICE WILLIAMS
Philoclea
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Shanice is an actress, singer, and songwriter best known for her performance as ‘Dorothy’ in the televised live performance of NBC’s The Wiz Live! Recently, Shanice played a recurring role in the NBC comedy Perfect Harmony with Bradley Whitford and Anna Camp and will be seen guest-starring in the upcoming season 4 of The Last O.G., opposite Tracy Morgan and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Shanice is 25 and lives in Los Angeles.
IG | @LuvBeingShanice