STUDIO PRODUCTION: DRAG QUEEN DROP OUT

At the beginning of the holidays, we had a huge issue which was Oliver, our Drag Queen, had to drop out of the project due to commitments with Education, which left us in a very difficult situation of trying to find someone new. After contacting Felix, she unfortunately had new commitments and couldn't help with the project so myself, Producers, Production Manager and Laura Dagger (Locations Manager) all came together and emailed and called as many different locations, clubs and groups that we could find aiming to find ourselves a new Drag Queen.

Laura ended up finding us a young man called Conor Mckie, 19 year old from Kent who is a Drag Queen. His stage name is 'Sapphire Stonee'. After looking on their Facebook page, their look was ideal.  Lots of colour and over the top make up and nails, she had an ideal look. Laura told us that Sapphire was very keen to come onboard with the project as well.

Also looking on her Facebook page, we found a video of one of her performances which was brilliant. Lots of energy and even the splits (will have to check if she can do that in the studios however.)

Sapphire performance

Once we had contacted her and I'd spoken over Skype we agreed for us to come onboard with the programme. She's made her own outfits and also salvaged, only been doing Drag for a short amount of time but has been styling for years. She can also do the dress rehearsal on the 10th April and the TX date. 

We also received the song which had been produced for this section. Jemma Cotterell mixed it together to make it into a 1 minute performance piece. Below is the edited song: