Shea Couleé: The Lipstick Ball

Shea Couleé is a non-binary, internationally-renowned drag superstar, recording artist, model, and actor, known for their fashion-forward editorial looks, expanding their artistry and brand into many different spaces, and their consistent use of the art of drag and costuming as a medium for larger storytelling. Couleé is the Season 5 winner (2020) of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, and finished a finalist on Season 7 (2022), the special all-winners edition where they became the first queen ever to wear haute couture on the show’s runway. Couleé will star as a series regular in next year’s Marvel/Disney+ series, Ironheart, becoming the first queen to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Couleé recently released two singles, “Let Go” and “Your Name” from their debut album via their label HausDown Records, expected early 2023. This follows several successful singles, “Collide,” “Rewind,” “Crème Brûlée,” and their 2017 EP “Couleé-D” that gave us “Ride,” “Cocky,” and “Feeling So.” In February 2023, Couleé will join pop sensation Betty Who on the BIG! Tour, opening for her at shows across the US. Widely celebrated as an activist focused on uplifting LGBTQIA+ individuals and the BIPOC community, they have countlessly shared how important it is for them to harness their career in drag to inspire, calling their drag a “love letter to Black women.”