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Charles Busch

Highest Rated: 100% The Sixth Reel (2021)

Lowest Rated: 54% Psycho Beach Party (2000)

Birthday: Aug 23, 1954

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Following in the footsteps of the late Charles Ludlum, founder of New York's Ridiculous Theatre Company, which honed camp and cross-dressing into a comic art in the 1960s and '70s, self-described "gender illusionist" Charles Busch drew inspiration from movie and stage divas of yore and created complex female characterizations, not just a cabaret drag persona. In 1984, he formed Theatre-in-Limbo with a group of friends and began performing his wonderfully-titled plays like "Kiss the Blood Off My Castanets" at NYC's Limbo Lounge. "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" became such a hit there that it moved in 1985 to the historic Provincetown Playhouse, where it played for five years, becoming one of the longest-running non-musicals in Off-Broadway history. A 2000-year-old lesbian in that one, he also scored as Chicklet, a teenager with a multiple personality disorder, in "Psycho Beach Party" (1987), which he would retool for his first screenwriting credit in 2000.

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Highest rated movies

100% The Sixth Reel Watchlist
65% 73% Die Mommie Die!
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54% 66% Psycho Beach Party
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50% A Very Serious Person
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Trouble on the Corner
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% No Score Yet The Sixth Reel Jimmy (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter
- 2021
No Score Yet 50% A Very Serious Person Jan (Character),
Director,
Writer
- 2006
65% 73% Die Mommie Die! Angela Arden (Character),
Screenwriter
$180.3K 2003
54% 66% Psycho Beach Party Captain Monica Stark (Character),
Screenwriter,
Writer
$268.0K 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trouble on the Corner Ms. Ellen (Character) - 1997

TV

Credit
38% 76% Maya & Marty Music Performer 2016
19% No Score Yet Lipstick Jungle Ricardo Bragini (Guest Star) 2008
95% 95% Frasier Mark (Guest Voice) 2002