Charles Busch
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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Charles Busch
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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100% | No Score Yet | The Sixth Reel |
Jimmy (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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A Very Serious Person |
Jan (Character), Director, Writer |
- | 2006 |
65% |
|
Die Mommie Die! |
Angela Arden (Character), Screenwriter |
$180.3K | 2003 |
54% |
|
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 | ||||
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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 |