RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9 star, Valentina, will make her Broadway debut as Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show. She becomes the first trans Mexican American featured in a principal cast on Broadway.
Rocky Horror is led by Luke Evans as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, alongside Rachel Dratch as the Narrator, Andrew Durand as Brad, Stephanie Hsu as Janet, Amber Gray as Riff Raff, Harvey Guillén as Eddie/Dr. Scott, Josh Andrés Rivera as Rocky, and Sherie Rene Scott as Magenta.
Valentina competed on RPDR in 2017. Though she didn’t win the crown, she earned the “fan favorite” queen. Most famously, Valentina wore a bedazzled face mask during a lip-sync because she didn’t know the words (prompting her now-iconic plea, “I’d like to keep it on, please”).
She returned to the Drag Race universe in 2018 for All Stars 4. In 2023, she debuted as the inaugural host and judge in season 1 of Drag Race México.
Valentina made her acting debut as Angel Dumott Schunard in 2019’s Rent: Live opposite Brandon Victor Dixon, Vanessa Hudgens and Jordan Fisher. Other screen credits include Netflix’s The House of Flowers, AJ and the Queen, La Usurpadora: The Musical, and the big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights.
Tickets for The Rocky Horror Show are now on sale.
