Supervillain Era Activated: Bosco Unleashes Miss Gender for a New Tour

Christine Fitzgerald Wed, April 22, 2026 at 1:47 PM UTC

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Bosco isn’t just stepping into the spotlight; she’s building an entire universe around it. With The Marvelous Miss Gender, her first full-length solo show. In the show, which kicks off on July 8 in Detroit and runs through August 16 in Buffalo with stops across the country (get your tickets now at dragfans.com), the drag powerhouse trades the competition stage for a full-blown theatrical takeover, complete with supervillain lore, campy spectacle, and unapologetic attitude. It’s a maximalist fever dream: part comic book, part burlesque, part stand-up, and entirely Bosco.

Years in the making, the show introduces audiences to Miss Gender, Bosco’s wickedly witty alter ego, while doubling as both a satire of cultural panic and a celebration of queer creativity at its most fearless. Fresh off global tours and a standout rise from her standout performances on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 and All Stars season 10, Bosco is now betting big on herself, taking on the roles of director, writer, producer, and star. The result? A high-octane, hands-on theatrical experience that leans into nostalgia, spectacle, and just enough chaos to keep you on edge.

In our exclusive interview, Bosco pulls back the curtain on the origins of Miss Gender, the challenges of going solo, and why sometimes the best way to fight back is to turn up the camp and take over the world while you’re at it.

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This show feels like your most ambitious project so far. What was the spark that first brought The Marvelous Miss Gender to life?

Well, Miss Gender is a concept that’s lived in my Notes app for a few years we’ve been kind of like playing with ideas, playing with like concept narrative, yada, yada, yada. And then, in December, Murray and Peter (of Murray and Peter Presents) offered me the option to create a solo show. They’re like, “Do you have any ideas? Anything that you want to do?” I’m like, funny you should ask. We’ve kind of been percolating on this for a minute now and now we get to pull the trigger and we’re just going for it.

With this being your first solo show, how does it feel to carry the entire thing on your shoulders?

I’m so used to that, so business as usual. Oh, no, I’m kidding. It’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of stress and it is a lot to undertake. But I don’t know. I feel like at this point in my career, we have to keep on moving upwards if we want to get to where I want to be, and this is kind of the next step. It feels like a really, really big step, but if we do this and it lands and it does everything that I’m know that I’m capable of doing, it’s going to be a really big moment.

Who is Miss Gender really? Is she a villain? Is she your alter ego or is it something closer to you?

She’s my supervillain. Alter ego. Essentially it is just me within a comic book world. There’s not like a particular character study that I’m doing, but she’s a supervillain that’s trying to spread her gender agenda by taking over the world, by turning everybody trans. I’m just trying to find a way to tell all the conservatives that they’re right. Trans people are a problem and we are coming to take over the world.

It’s kind of in response to a lot of the public perception with trans people. A lot of the laws that are being passed, a lot of the things that we’re currently just being inundated every single day in the news cycle. And rather than getting overly morose about it, I’d rather take this opportunity to poke holes in it and laugh and create a little bit of joy out of something that’s causing a lot of us suffering.

Bosco at RuPaul DragCon at the LA Convention Center – Day 1 on May 13, 2022. Credit: Jennifer Graylock/INSTARimages/Cover Images

Now, positioning yourself as a supervillain character, does that unlock anything for you creatively that performing as Bosco doesn’t?

I don’t know if it’s unlocking anything different than where I find Bosco. I’ve always found Bosco to kind of live in a villain-esque type of realm. I’ve always found her to be a little bit of a femme fatale, so it does feel like it’s definitely within my wheelhouse, but I do think having this opportunity to present myself as this is a villain is something that speaks to just like how villains are often queer coded, how trans people are made to be a villain in day-to-day life right now. I feel like it speaks to gay people and it speaks to trans people in our experience, and I think there’s a lot of fun to be mined there.

You’ve pulled from some very interesting like references for the show, like Batman: The Animated Series, Kill Bill and Elvira. Like how do you make all those references like cohesive instead of like chaotic?

There are so many different ideas that are coming into this. I’m trying to find unifying factors that really tie it all together with soundtrack. I’m trying to keep the soundtrack very eighties themed. I’m trying to keep this very nostalgic. I really like finding a way to do something that feels nostalgic yet is brand new at the same time and I feel like focusing in on a soundtrack that all belongs in the same era, even if it’s like remixed and revamped, is really going to help tie everything together and really ground it in one place.

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With this show you’re directing, you’re co-writing and co-producing, like what part of this whole process has challenged you the most?

The logistics of production are insane, like lining up costuming, choreographers, set design props, figuring out staging, figuring out how it’s going to work back of house, as well as what it’s going to look like front of house. It is a really massive undertaking. The logistics of a show are usually the trickiest part, and for me, I always like to make it look like it’s really easy.

Even if you’re doing something really, really hard, while you’re performing, your goal is to make it look effortless. That way the audience feels at ease with you. They feel like, oh, she knows what she’s doing. She’s in charge. We trust her to guide this ship. So, I definitely think the logistics of the backend are the trickiest part of this.

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If someone walked in knowing nothing about drag or even theater, what would you want them to feel walking out of the show?

I would want them to feel joy. I would want them to feel inspired. I remember the first time I ever watched Elvira Mistress of the Dark or Pee-wee’s Playhouse. I just thought feeling so creatively energized and inspired about what is possible when you give somebody with a lot of imagination a budget and allow them to really explore an idea that they’ve had. And with those two projects, you could tell that it was something that both of them had been working up towards for years and years and years and to watch it all kind of fall into place was really, really gratifying. I really hope that people walk away feeling inspired and at the very least, entertained.

You’ve done RuPaul’s Drag Race. You’ve toured globally and your career has moved along so quickly. What has changed the most about how you approach your craft?

I feel like when I was first starting my craft, we were trying to make the best with what we had to work with, so there was a very punk, scrappy, DIY energy behind a lot of my early career, and I do think a lot of that’s still there. I feel like I’m always kind of punching above my weight, so I’m always trying to figure out how to make things work with maybe like less resources than somebody else.

But I feel like since I’ve had all these great opportunities from television, I now have access to different designers, connections with writers, connections with choreographers that I’ve built over the years, and being able to tap those and be able to utilize them regularly has really allowed me to game up and get so much better.

You’ve done so many things already, but is there anything that’s like on your bucket list, something that you haven’t done that you really want to do? Is there a memoir inside of you or something like that?

I don’t know if there’s a memoir inside of me, but I would really, really like to die in a horror movie. I think that would be a really, really fun feather in my hat. I feel really satisfied with a lot of the things that I’ve been able to do, and I think more so than finding like new goals to work towards other than this like one woman show obviously is to have the opportunity to continue doing them. The entertainment industry is so fickle and it moves so quickly, and I just want to be able to do this for as long as humanly possible.

Do you have any Broadway aspirations because so many queens now have gone theatrical productions, you know, like stage plays and musicals. Is that something that you’re striving to do?

I’m not much of a singer. I don’t really have that passion, so I don’t really see that in my future. I really, really love the careers of Sasha Velour and BenDeLaCreme, who both have really cemented themselves as self-producers who are able to write and star in their own work. I feel like I’m getting to do that in this moment, and that’s something that I want to continue to do. I’m a bit of a control freak, so I love being the one that’s in charge of everything.

Bosco performing during RuPaul’s Drag Race ‘Werq the World` Tour at Hard Rock Live held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida on June 26, 2023. Credit: Robert Bell/INSTARimages

You had mentioned horror movies and I have to ask, do you have a favorite horror movie?

Absolutely. My favorite horror movie is also my favorite movie. It’s the original Alien. I think it’s literally a perfect movie from beginning to end, from set design to acting to the very concept of it. I love all the aliens and they get a little bit cheesier and sch luckier as the franchise goes on, and I have time and energy for that. But I think the original Alien is just so genius and moved the needle over and we see its impact in almost like every sci-fi movie to this day, and so many different horror movies.

When the curtain falls on the Miss Gender tour, what do you hope people will say about Bosco?

I hope it just puts me in a league of just like this girl is around to stay. She has the chops to back it up. It’s not a flash in the pan. It’s not something that’s just dependent on reality TV fame. She has the skillset and the vision to be doing this forever.

Tickets for The Marvelous Miss Gender are available now at dragfans.com. Follow Bosco on Instagram, Threads, Twitch, YouTube and on her website.

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