Carnegie Hall

Jinkx Monsoon is a Broadway star, recording artist, and two-time winner of the Emmy-winning reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race. She made her highly anticipated Broadway debut in 2023 as Matron “Mama” Morton in Chicago, breaking box office records during an extended 10-week run. She later returned to the show in 2024 for a two-week encore and broke her own single performance gross record. Also in 2024, she played Audrey in the Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors opposite Corbin Bleu and made a jaw-dropping Doctor Who debut as the new fan-favorite villain Maestro. She will next star as Ruth in the upcoming production of Pirates! The Penzance Musical, marking her first time originating a role on Broadway.

Jinkx has toured the world, performing original cabaret shows with music partner Major Scales, including the hit Off-Broadway sensation The Vaudevillians, as well as six international tours of the wildly successful The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show with longtime collaborator and RuPaul’s Drag Race alum BenDeLaCreme. In 2023, she embarked on her first major concert tour, Jinkx Monsoon: Everything at Stake, which she performed with a live band in sold-out theaters in 44 cities.

Jinkx’s accolades include the Gregory Award for her portrayal of Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and a MAC Award for the original show The Ginger Snapped. As a recording artist, she has released three critically acclaimed albums of original music written by Major Scales: The Virgo Odyssey, The Inevitable Album, and The Ginger Snapped.

As a voice actor, Jinkx has voiced characters for animated shows such as Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (Lemongrab), Steven Universe (Emerald), Helluva Boss, Mighty Magiswords, Bravest Warriors, and more.

Jinkx first garnered an international fan base following her win on season five of RuPaul’s Drag Race (2013), and continued her winning streak on season seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (2022), where she was crowned “Queen of All Queens,” winning the competition against all previous winners. She remains the first and only drag queen to be crowned twice.

Jinkx dedicates this evening’s performance to the women who raised her: Nana, Mama, and Mimi.

Will Van Dyke is a Grammy-nominated music producer, songwriter, music supervisor, orchestrator, and arranger working in theater, television, and film. His musical Writing Kevin Taylor (written with Josh Halloway) has played Seattle’s Village Theatre and Meadow Brook Theatre in Michigan. His musical fuzzy (written with Jeff Talbott) receives its world premiere this July at the Barrington Stage Company; it was also a 2024 National Alliance for Musical Theater Finalist.

Projects that are currently in development include Magnificent Climb (written with Rick Elice); and collaborations with Jeff Talbott: Ten Brave Seconds, Imagine Harry, Wintersong, The Circle and the Wheel, and Seven Broken Hearts. He is also working on the theatrical adaptation of his album Chasing the Day. Will penned the scores to The Lehman Trilogy, The Messenger, Ass, and i at Pioneer Theatre Company. Other composition credits include The 64 Keys (written with Jeff Talbott and produced as a short film for Cleveland Play House), The Gravedigger’s Lullaby (Off-Broadway), Straight (Off-Broadway), and The Lion King Experience titles (Disney), among others.

Will was executive music producer of the film Theater Camp. Most recently, he was music director of Swept Away on Broadway, for which he won a Helen Hayes Award. He also serves as music supervisor, orchestrator, and arranger of the hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors, for which he received a Grammy nomination for producing the cast recording. In addition to being orchestrator and arranger, Will continues to supervise the musical adaptation of Pretty Woman, first on Broadway and now worldwide. Other credits include The Heart of Rock and Roll, Fly, Kinky Boots, Rent, The Addams Family, Grease, and Wicked.

Will was a finalist for the 2019 Fred Ebb Award and the 2021 Kleban Prize. He is a founding partner in Joy Machine Records, a record label dedicated to new musical development and preservation. He has a band and has recorded numerous EPs and albums, including A View of the River, The Mayor, and Forks Don’t Break, among others. Visit willvandyke.com for more information.

BenDeLaCreme is an award-winning theater and film producer, comedian, director, writer, and global drag icon who continues to reshape and build the drag industry on a major scale.

The producing powerhouse first rose to international acclaim following superstar runs on RuPaul’s Drag Race (2014) and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (2018), during which she broke multiple series records and earned a spot among the show’s “15 Fan Favorites of All Time.” Harnessing that energy, BenDeLaCreme took her career where no queen has gone before, founding her own production company, BenDeLaCreme Presents, under which she went on to write, produce, and direct multiple sold-out international tours of The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show (2024 Queerties Award for Best Live Theater), as well as her critically acclaimed, award-winning solo works Terminally Delightful, Cosmos, Inferno A-Go-Go, and Ready To Be Committed, and the cult classic film The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special. She’s also the director of Monét X Change’s one-woman show Life Be Lifin’, which premiered at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023.

DeLa is a comedian known for her quick wit and sharp mind, as well as her work as a puppeteer, live singer, choreographer, production and costume designer, and ravishing beauty. She strives to make politics, philosophy, science, and literature all more accessible through entertainment. Forbes said it best: “Keeping you entertained while making you think about your place in the world is all a part of the BenDeLaCreme experience.” Billboard says DeLa “soars past entertainment and into the realm of theatrical art.” TheaterMania calls her work “spectacular … helping to redefine what cabaret can be: an intoxicating cocktail of high, low, topical, and timeless”; and The New York Times has hailed her as “self-possessed and chameleonic.”

Major Scales is a professionally trained musician, composer, writer, and performer who is based in Seattle. His songs have been performed everywhere from RuPaul’s Drag Race to Wigstock to streaming television series. He co-created the long-touring musical comedy The Vaudevillians with Jinkx Monsoon, with whom he continues to tour the world in performances of their original cabaret works.

Major last played in New York at Kings Theatre for the North American tour of the concert musical Everything at Stake with Jinkx. Recently, he finished a run with Jinkx in their musical comedy Together Again, Again! at Seattle Rep. He also composed original music for the touring version of The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show and the filmed version, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special.

For the past three years, Major has performed in the annual holiday show Scott Shoemaker’s War On Christmas at Seattle’s Theater Off Jackson. He last worked with BenDeLeCreme on their radio play/podcast WQUR: Queer Quarantine Radio along with Peaches Christ and Jinkx. An accomplished recording artist, he has recorded several albums with Jinkx: the ongoing The Virgo Odyssey, The Ginger Snapped, and The Inevitable Album.

Major thanks his mom, as well as his blood and chosen families. Find him online on Instagram and Letterboxd @TheMajorScales.