Jinkx Monsoon desires to play an iconic feminine assassin. (Getty)
RuPaul’s Drag Race legend and Physician Who villain Jinkx Monsoon is wanting forward – and dreaming of enjoying manifesting a blood-thirsty murderess.
Along with being the one Drag Race queen to take house the crown twice and being the primary to star in a number one position in BBC sci-fi collection Physician Who, the trans-femme performer can also be making big waves in New York’s theatre scene.
In 2023, she gained the a part of Mama Morton in Chicago on Broadway, a job she’ll briefly reprise on the finish of June. Since then, she’s starred as Audrey within the queer favorite, off-Broadway adaptation of Little Store of Horrors, to rapturous applause
As her Little Store of Horrors stint ends, and along with her time because the Physician’s campest nemesis of all time, Maestro, now over, Jinkx has her eyes set firmly on the following position she desires.
“It has at all times been [my dream to play] Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd,” she advised Paper journal earlier this week. Whereas I’d by no means say no to enjoying her within the present operating revival manufacturing, with the intention to have this dream fulfilled, I’d wish to originate a efficiency of her.
“I gotta say, I really like taking up roles. It’s a extremely enjoyable and distinctive problem as an actor. I really feel able to put my stamp on a personality earlier than anybody else does.”
Sweeney Todd is presently being staged on Broadway, with two-time Tony-Award-winner Sutton Foster enjoying Mrs Lovett, the barber’s murderous pie-making spouse. Till earlier this month, Heartstopper star Joe Locke was enjoying Tobias Ragg, the apprentice to Todd’s rival Pirelli.
And if the present finally ends up making a return to the UK’s West Finish, then casting administrators ought to know that Jinkx is their lady.
Talking about her profession to date, Jinkx stated her household at all times knew she would find yourself as a star of stage and display.
“I got here out of my mom queer and a performer, ask anybody in my household,” she stated. “It’s in my child guide as one in every of my first sentences.”
She not too long ago opened up about how enjoying cisgender girl Audrey in Little Store of Horrors had been a “great” and “affirming” expertise for her as a trans girl.
Earlier this yr, Jinkx revealed that she had undergone facial feminisation surgical procedure and adjusted her off-stage title to Hera Hoffer.
She will probably be enjoying Mama Morton in Chicago from 27 June to 12 July. Tickets can be found now.