Varla Jean Merman

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Varla Jean Merman

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Bear Week Diaries
1h 14m
Movie 2024

Bear Week Diaries

LGTBQ romantic love story set in the reality of Bear Week in Provincetown. Shot in the magical setting of summer in Cape Cod.

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2h 0m
Movie 2020

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a celebration of the lives lost to AIDS told in free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score.

The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special
1h 8m
Movie 2020

The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special

The story of two queens who set out to create a classic Christmas TV variety show, but just can’t agree on how. DeLa tries her hardest to uphold the cheery Christmas traditions of her childhood. Meanwhile, Jinkx is much more interested in bawdy jokes, cute boys, and boozy libations.

Wig
1h 29m
Movie 2019

Wig

Spotlighting the art of drag, and centered on the New York staple Wigstock, this documentary showcases the personalities and performances that inform the ways we understand queerness, art and identity today.

Hush Up Sweet Charlotte
1h 35m
Movie 2015

Hush Up Sweet Charlotte

While defending her family’s historic plantation from destruction, Charlotte, a reclusive Southern-belle spinster, calls for help from her cousin Melanie, but Melanie's arrival sparks a chain of melodramatic events that send Charlotte into madness.

Biography

Varla Jean Merman is the drag persona of American drag performer, actor and singer Jeffery Roberson. Varla's fictitious pedigree boasts that Ernest Borgnine is her father and Ethel Merman is her mother. Along with her co-stars, Roberson shared the 'Best Actor Grand Jury Award' at Outfest 2003 and 'Best Actress' honors at both the 2003 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and the 2003 Aspen HBO Film Festival for his role as Varla/Marla in the film 'Girls Will Be Girls'.

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