Pangina Heals
Pangina Heals atRuPaul's DragCon in 2022
Born	Pan Pan Narkprasert (1988-07-22)July 22, 1988 (age 36) Bangkok,Thailand
Education	University of California, Los Angeles (BFA)
Occupations	Drag queen model
Known for	Drag Race Thailand RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World (series 1)

Pan Pan Narkprasert (Thai:ปันปัน นาคประเสริฐ; born July 22, 1988), known asPangina Heals,^[1] is a Thai drag queen and judge onDrag Race Thailand, who later went on to compete on thefirst series ofRuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World (2022).^[2] She has been described as one of the most popular drag performers in Asia, and is often called theRuPaul of Thailand.^[3][4][5] Narkprasert founded the Bangkok drag venue, House of Heals.^[6]

Narkprasert was born to a Thai father and aTaiwanese mother in Bangkok. He was a student atShrewsbury International School andHarrow International School Bangkok. He was bullied by his peers and battled depression and bulimia.^[7] He later lived in Los Angeles for four years, where he studied fine arts at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles.^[8]

After graduating, Narkprasert returned to spend a year navigating Bangkok’s art scene. He entered his first competition, aLady Gaga lookalike competition, in 2010 and won a trip to New York City to see her perform in concert.^[7] Eventually, with the help of local drag performer Sira Soda, he learned how to dress and put on makeup.^[7]

Pangina chose their drag name as a reference to the drag queenOngina and the super continentPangaea.^[9] By 2011, Narkprasert has made a name for himself as Thailand'swaacking queen,^[6] and he would go on to win T Battle 2014, Thailand’s first reality TV drag competition.^[10] Pangina Heals continued to hone his craft by hosting a weekly LGBTQI+ night in Bangkok at the upmarket cabaret bar Maggie Choo's.^[8]

Pangina Heals made her acting debut after joining the main cast of the play,The Lisbon Traviata, written by American playwrightTerrence McNally and produced by English-language multicultural theatre group Culture Collective Studio, where she portrayed Mendy.^[11][12] Pangina Heals opened for Tube Gallery's 20th anniversary fashion show.^[13] She was a part of the lineup for Melbourne’s Drag Exp in 2020.^[14] In June 2021, she hostedQueer Got Talent, an online talent competition.^[15]

In 2020, Narkprasert opened House of Heals, a drag bar in Bangkok.^[6]

As Pangina Heals, Narkprasert participated on Thailand's version of Lip Sync Battle and won the competition with a rendition of Lady Gaga's "Telephone".^[16] She competed in and wonT Battle, a Thai reality show where 13 local gender benders competed in singing, dancing and impersonation challenges.^[7] She also competed onThailand Dance Now.^[8] In 2018, she was announced to co-hostDrag Race Thailand, a Thai spin-off ofRuPaul's Drag Race, produced byKantana Group.^[17]

In January 2022, she was announced as one of the nine contestants on thefirst series ofRuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World,^[18] making her the first ever contestant to have judged an iteration of the show before entering the competition.^[19] In the premiere episode, Pangina Heals won the episode after beatingJimbo to a lipsync to "Say You'll Be There" byThe Spice Girls, and chose to eliminateLemon from the competition.^[20] In Episode 3, Pangina won for the second time after beating Dutch contestantJaney Jacké in a lipsync performance to "We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)" by theVengaboys and eliminated Jimbo.^[21] Pangina Heals was eliminated in the following episode, theSnatch Game, byBlu Hydrangea, after her performance asMariah Carey in the Snatch Game, which she did not react well to.^[22]

Pangina Heals has a drag "daughter", Felicia Heals, who appeared in the casting special for thesecond season ofDrag Race Thailand, becoming the firstcisgender female queen to appear in the franchise.^[23]

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