Teatro ZinZanni announced that award-winning comedian and RuPaul’s Drag Race alum BenDeLaCreme will be a special guest performer and creative consultant for its summer show May 30 through July 19.
BenDeLaCreme already has a connection with Chicago. Before she toured and became a star on two seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race, DeLa got her start on the Chicago scene as a drag and burlesque performer while she pursued a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The drag performer said in a statement, “I had my first ZinZanni experience as an audience member in Seattle 15ish years ago—and the magic of that night still electrifies me when I think of it. I had only moved there from Chicago a few years earlier and I had never seen anything like it; it perfectly aligned with everything I love about entertainment. To be reunited with this company in this city is such an amazing cacophony of formative life experiences.”
Teatro ZinZanni’s new show debuted April 25 and is an ode to all things summer in Chicago. Kevin Kent directed the new show and stars as Doily through May 25. The summer show also features LiV Warfield as Madame Z, hula-hoop artist Vita Radionova, aerial straps and capoeira artist Raphael Nepomuceno, Chicago-based trapeze duo Duo Rose and the hair aerialist artist Danila Bim.
Teatro ZinZanni—which recently announced a permanent residency in Chicago—is located on the 14th floor of the Cambria Hotel at 32 W. Randolph St., in the Loop.