Ahead of her 2024 Spoleto debut, Sasha Velour will join the fourth season of the Emmy-winning unscripted series We’re Here. The gender-fluid drag queen is known for her performance artistry, fierce activism, and boundary-breaking scholarship. Sasha will present an immersive evening of drag, storytelling, and live art on June 6 at the Charleston Gaillard Center. Get your tickets now and look out for We’re Here season 4 coming to HBO on April 26.
ABOUT WE’RE HERE
The Emmy®, Peabody, and GLAAD award-winning series We’re Here follows renowned drag queens, Sasha Velour, Priyanka, Jaida Essence Hall, and Latrice Royale, as they continue the show’s mission of spreading love and connection through the art of drag across small-town America. This season, the queens work with participants in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as in surrounding towns, and take an in-depth, immersive look at recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, and the effect it has had on the community.
ABOUT SASHA VELOUR
Sasha Velour is the founder and director of the acclaimed New York City drag revue NightGowns. Her first one-queen show, Smoke & Mirrors, toured to 90 theaters around the world from 2019-2022, including the Folies Bergere and the London Palladium. Her best-selling book The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifest of Drag outlined the untold history of drag alongside her own life (Harper, 2023).
In 2017, she won the 9th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the year the show won its first Emmy. In 2020, she executive produced and starred in a docuseries adaptation of her show NightGowns, which won a RealScreen Award. In Summer 2024, Sasha will debut her newest theater piece with the Tony Award-winning Tectonic Theater Project and director Moises Kaufman.
THE BIG REVEAL LIVE SHOW
Sasha Velour is on the road with The Big Reveal Live Show, a new 90-minute show that will present an immersive evening of drag, storytelling, and live art, featuring iconic new performances from Velour herself in a show that will have you screaming with laughter at the start, and openly weeping by the end.
Velour is known for her emotional, thoughtful, and crowd-shaking reveals and The Big Reveal Live Show! is no exception! The crowd can expect to be truly surprised in a way they never thought possible. Whether the reveals are physical stage reveals or emotional ones that catch one off-guard, Velour has set a new bar for today’s drag. A true chameleon when it comes to form and style, Velour’s musical selections range from Stevie Wonder to Britney Spears, Steven Sondheim to Deep Purple and her performances take on different forms throughout the evening: drag performances, artful oration, childhood film, video art, and more! Don’t miss this exciting evening of drag from one of the world’s foremost practitioners!
The Big Reveal Live Show will run for 90 minutes with no intermission. Get tickets here.