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Miss Understood |
Miss Understood continues to act as
Mistress of Ceremonies at East Village hot spot Lucky
Chengs |
| Born |
Alexander Heimberg
New York
City |
Miss Understood (born Alex
Heimberg, is an American drag artist originally
from Levittown, New York, who has been based in New York City
since the late 1980s. She was a prominent figure in the East Village drag scene of the
early 1990s which revolved around the legendary Pyramid Club and Wigstock, an annual open air
drag festival. Her film and television appearances include The
Brenda and Glennda Show, To Wong
Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, HBO's
Dragtime, TLC's Faking It, Wigstock, The
Movie, Project Runway, and Sex and the
City. In Josh Kilmer-Purcell's New York
Times Bestselling Memoir I'm Not Myself These Days, one of the
first competitions that Kilmer-Purcell's enters is one of Miss
Understood's, in East Village's Lucky Chengs.
Screaming Queens
Entertainment
Miss Understood stopping a bus in the middle of
1st
Avenue
In 1994, Miss Understood started a drag queen booking agency
called Screaming Queens Entertainment, for which she acts as "CEO
and Spokesmodel."[1]
The company was developed to showcase some of the outrageous
personalities Miss Understood encountered in her early days. "When
I first went clubbing, I was stunned by what I saw: a whole world
of surreal looking characters that never left their homes before
midnight. I had seen people dressed in drag before, but in New
York, drag meant something totally different. It wasn't necessarily
about passing as a woman, but about looking outrageous, feeling
fabulous, and getting attention." Prominent events for which
Screaming Queens provided entertainment include George
Stephanopoulos's bachelor party,[2]
Blaine Trump's Valentines Day dinner, Barbra Streisand's Farewell Concert
VIP dinner, the Hugo
Boss Christmas party; and New York
Magazine's 30th anniversary, amongst others.[3]
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