Jinkx Monsoon was the season 5 winner of RuPaul’s “Drag Race. Her off-Broadway hit “The Vaudevillians” was a critical smash hit, about which the New York Times raved “Straight or gay, everyone leaves this show with sides aching from laughter” and called it “a pure delight,” while other press hailed it as “comedic genius” (Show Business Weekly), “hilarious” (BroadwayWorld), and “intelligent and entertaining” (TheaterMania). Even RuPaul proclaimed the performance “a triumph!” Jinkx is the creation of Jerick Hoffer, a native of Portland, Oregon and a graduate of Cornish College in Seattle. It was at Cornish as a fifteen-year-old theater major that Hoffer traces the early manifestations of Jinkx Monsoon, whom he refers to as a “zany, off-the-wall, irreverent, gorgeous anachronism.” In 2006, Hoffer made the Guinness World Records as lead dancer in the world’s largest drag queen chorus line. By 2012, the young performer was starring at top Seattle theaters - Moritz in “Spring Awakening” (Balagan Theatre), Angel in “Rent” (The 5th Avenue Theatre), and most recently, Hedwig in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” with the Seattle Theatre Group. Extraordinarily real, some audiences have not yet decided whether Jinkx is a woman or a drag queen. Combatting humble beginnings, struggling for social status, raising a homosexual son striving for fame as a comedian, this well-developed character has attained more than acclaim, but a life of her own.