RuPaul's Drag Race star, Peppermint sat down to chat with Corey Crockett of Channel Q to talk about starring in A Transparent Musical, remaining booked and busy, and flipping the narrative in her comedy special.
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Kicking the interview off by giving Corey a realtor style tour of her home, they quickly bonded over how rough the apartment hunting scene is in New York.
With a week of shows under her belt since opening day of A Transparent Musical, she said "it's been going great." Something she hadn't consider was the return to theatre post-pandemic. "it's been really interesting to get back into theatre after a few years and see live theatre, again, post-pandemic, like how that settles in and now there's people in the seats with and without mask which is a consideration and a thought, something that didn't even occur to me before," she said.
"A busy gal" she calls herself, she remains booked and busy. In addition to doing film and television for several years she revealed that she "has a really great team of people" who help her keep things together. And as busy as she is now, she always knew she would be-- recalling on the earlier parts of her career she talked about working the club scene and she'd "famously double-book" herself where she would go from one club to another and for at least three years she would work nights seven days a week.
Her latest solo project, a comedy special titled So-SIGH-ety Effects aired in April and puts a comedic spin on her journey as a Black transgender woman. "I had never written comedy and certainly hadn't approached it from the stand point of doing a comedy special, I didn't know what I was doing," she said. Telling jokes has always been a part of her as an entertainer but it's different doing it in a comedy special.
When talking about her inspiration behind the project, she said "I was thinking you know if other comics who are millionaires, who get millions of dollars to do comedy specials where they tell poorly written jokes about trans people its about time that we have trans comics speaking our own experiences," she continued, "because if not then we have other people framing the narrative and saying who they think we are and it always come with a bit of bias."
Listen to the full interview above to hear the entire conversation between Miss Peppermint and Corey.
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