Peaches Christ | |
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Born | Joshua Grannell January 7, 1974 Washington D.C., U.S.[1] |
Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University |
Occupation(s) | Actor, emcee, filmmaker, performer |
Years active | 1996–present |
Website | http://www.peacheschrist.com |
Peaches Christ (stage name for Joshua Grannell; born January 7, 1974) is an American underground drag performer, emcee, filmmaker, and actor.[2] Peaches currently resides in San Francisco where her Backlash Production Company and Midnight Mass movie series are based.[3] Grannell studied film at Penn State University, where his senior thesis film Jizzmopper: A Love Story, about a janitor at an adult video store, won the audience award at the annual Penn State Student Film Festival.[4] Grannell developed the Peaches Christ character during the production of this film.
Her Midnight Mass road-show and Short Film Retrospective have been on tour and appeared in Seattle, Berkeley, New York City, Brussels, Belgium, and Lausanne, Switzerland.[5]
On September 7, 2007, the San Francisco de Young Museum hosted a "Decade of Peaches Christ Retrospective" called Cattychism featuring artistic contributions inspired by Peaches. The event included ten years of costume design by long-time collaborator Tria Connell and ten years of graphic design by artist Chris Hatfield.[6][7]