Here's the tea: if you like RuPaul's Drag Race and love theatre (the overlap there is... not small!), you'll be happy to know that many of your favorite Ru girls are trodding the boards these days.

Below are 10 Drag Race stars who have taken their fabulousness out of the gay bar and into plays and musicals, henny! Start your engines, and go see these queens the next time they're on the stage.

1. Latrice Royale

An alum of the fourth season of Drag Race along with the first and fourth seasons of All Stars, Latrice Royale is one of the franchise's most beloved and prolific queens. She's also one of the few on this list with very little connection to the theatre before her drag stardom, but that hasn't kept her from joining our world all the same. In 2020, Royale made her West End stage debut in Death Drop, a drag spectacular at Garrick Theatre (rumblings of an Off-Broadway transfer have been powerful, but are yet to materialize). And last year, she starred as the devilish Audrey II in Ogunquit Playhouse's Little Shop of Horrors. And thankfully, though that character is usually portrayed by a puppet with its vocals handled by an offstage actor, the theatre deemed Royale's glamor too fabulous to hide and re-imagined the role to be visible onstage throughout. Don't goop the plants, mama!

2. Sasha Velour

This queen showed us that she wasn't exactly your typical drag artist at the finale of her season. In a final lip sync performance that instantly became the stuff of true legend, Velour brought her flair for more avant garde performance art to the stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, lifting her wig and shaking it as rose petals fell from inside and onto her newly bald head. The coup de theatre handily won her that ninth season of Drag Race, and she's since made that flair for performance art her calling card. While she certainly brings that energy to her more traditional drag performances, too, Velour debuted a multi-disciplinary theatrical piece titled Velour: A Drag Spectacular at La Jolla Playhouse in 2024, with The Laramie Project co-creator Moisés Kaufman at the helm. And it looks like she wants to keep that up. She'll be in Chicago at Steppenwolf Theatre August 1–3, in a new show called The Big Reveal, inspired by her book The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag. Then next year, she'll debut another theatrical show, titled Travesty, at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. The work is reportedly "a tribute to the disruptive and political power of drag," according to press notes. That almost certainly means it will run afoul of a certain presidential D.C. resident's crusade against so-called "woke" performances. But we doubt that'll deter Velour in the slightest, and we love to see it.

3. Bianca Del Rio

Known for her sharp and sometimes caustic wit, season six winner Bianca Del Rio has always been a theatre girl. She has a long history working as a costume designer, and even began her drag career in a Louisiana production of Pageant. Years after winning Drag Race, Del Rio made a triumphant return to the theatre as a performer in West End favorite Everybody's Talking About Jamie (a production that also featured Drag Race judge Michelle Visage during its run). And now, we can all look forward to another stage return stateside: Del Rio is going to be starring in New York Theatre Workshop's upcoming Off-Broadway revival of Tartuffe, part of an all-star cast that also includes Matthew Broderick, Francis Jue, and Amber Gray.

4. Jinkx Monsoon

If you're following Broadway news at all, you knew two-time Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon would be on this list. Unabashedly a theatre girlie, Jinkx has never been far from the stage even after becoming a reality TV star. One of her first gigs after winning season five was starring as Velma Von Tussle in a Seattle concert staging of Hairspray. She made her long-awaited Broadway debut in 2023, shortly after winning Drag Race All Stars, starring as Matron "Mama" Morton in Chicago and sending the long-running revival's grosses pretty much through the roof. Since then, she's also made stage returns as Audrey in Off-Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors, and her current gig, as Ruth in Pirates! The Penzance Musical on Broadway via Roundabout Theatre Company. And just a few days after Pirates! finishes its limited run, she'll be right back on the boards as the newest star of Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum. Broadway can't seem to get enough of Jinkx Monsoon, and neither can we!

5. Marcia Marcia Marcia

Before Marcia Marcia Marcia became a Drag Race sensation infamous for her lack of makeup, she performed as Marty Lauter, and mostly in musical theatre. This Drag Race star's stage performances aren't a post-RuPaul development so much as they are Lauter going back to his bread and butter! Before Drag Race, Lauter had a brief stint in Broadway's Kinky Boots and the first national tour of Hello, Dolly!, plus a role in the Off-Broadway encore run of Kinky Boots. And after Drag Race, Lauter got right back to it, joining the ensemble of Broadway's current revival of Cabaret and understudying the role of the Emcee. That last bit has made Lauter the ever elusive understudy star, giving the production a chance to have another recognizable face on even when their above-the-title name is out for a performance or two. Marcia Marcia Marcia is still doing drag performances, and also runs her own makeup brand—Marciax3. But given Lauter's devotion to musical theatre, it looks like she'll never be too far from the stage.

6. Peppermint

Season nine runner up Peppermint made herstory when she originated a role in Broadway's Head Over Heels, becoming the first openly trans actor to do so on the Main Stem. She has a history on the stage that goes back to children's theatre and a college journey at AMDA—she even performed as Angel for a time early in her drag career, after playing that character in a production of Rent. Despite her Broadway bow, Peppermint has been mostly sticking to drag these days, but we can probably expect her to make stage returns from time to time. She last starred in the world premiere Transparent musical with Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles in 2023, playing the role of Davina (played by fellow trans Broadway actor Alexandra Billings in the television series).

7. Milan

This season four competitor is something of anomaly. As Dwayne Cooper, he performed in national tours of Show Boat and Smokey Joe's Café, and made his Broadway debut in 2007 in the ensemble of Hairspray—five years before he competed on the fourth season of Drag Race as Milan. In drag, Milan placed ninth on the reality show. But in the years since, that drag persona has laid dormant. Cooper, on the other hand, returned to Broadway in Motown the Musical in 2014, and again in Sweeney Todd in 2023. And just this last season, Cooper was in the ensemble of Lincoln Center Theater's Broadway premiere of Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's Floyd Collins. Unlike most of these Drag Race stars, Cooper is really a stage talent who makes brief forays into the world of drag.

8. Alaska Thunderfuck

Season five runner-up and All Stars season two winner Alaska hasn't just brought her acting talents to the stage—she's writing, too! As early as 2013, she starred as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a Texas production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and she followed in the high heels of her Drag Race sister Peppermint in 2021 when she sang in Pasadena Playhouse's Head Over Heels. But her biggest theatrical work has been with DRAG: The Musical, an original musical she co-wrote with Tomas Costanza and Ashley Gordon. After premiering in Los Angeles in 2022, the show, about rival drag bars fighting against each other and financial hardships, had a limited run Off-Broadway at New World Stages earlier this year. And as you can imagine given the subject matter, Alaska wasn't the only Ru girl in the cast. Jan Sport, Jujubee, and Lux Noir London all played supporting roles. Queens supporting queens! Though the show has closed, the Drag cast album can be streamed on all music platforms.

9. Rosé

Season 13 third runner-up Rosé (aka Ross McCorkell) is another gal who fell into drag after living in the world of musical theatre. And like several of her sisters before her, she's spent much of her post-Drag Race career getting right back to it—we even did a whole photo shoot with her imagining all of her musical theatre dream roles (see her above as Miss Hannigan)! Her first big musical bow after starring on the show was in Off-Broadway's Titaníque, starring as Victor Garber in 2022. The following year, Rosé was Glinda in an all-LGBTQIA+ production of The Wizard of Oz at New York's Geva Theatre Center. And McCorkell already has a follow-up on the books, playing J.M. Barrie in a production of Finding Neverland at Rochester, New York's OFC Creations this fall, performing September 25–October 19.

10. Nina West

Season 11 competitor (and Miss Congeniality winner) Nina West, aka Andrew Robert Levitt, has a degree in theatre, but made the bulk of his career doing drag. Drag Race stardom allowed Levitt to get back to those roots, though, starring in the drag role of Edna Turnblad in a 2021 national tour of Hairspray. And he's kept that up ever since. Levitt starred in the not-drag role of the Witch in a benefit production of Into the Woods in Ohio earlier this year. Then this past February, he combined Broadway icon and Tony winner Carol Channing with Magic Mike star Channing Tatum in the irreverent new musical Channing/Tatum at The Green Room 42.