Maddy Morphosis | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Maddy Morphosis atRuPaul's DragCon LA, 2023 | |
| Born | Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Television | RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14) |
Maddy Morphosis is an Americandrag performer most known for competing onseason 14 ofRuPaul's Drag Race. Maddy Morphosis is the show's first contestant to identify as a heterosexual.[1][2] Since 2023, Maddy Morphosis has hosted the talk show web seriesGive It to Me Straight.
Maddy Morphosis is fromFayetteville, Arkansas and worked atTarget before appearing onDrag Race.[3] Maddy Morphosis dropped out of college.[4]
Maddy Morphosis has been doing drag since 2017 and describes her persona as "Arkansas's most overrated drag queen".[5] The name is a play on the word "metamorphosis".[6] Maddy Morphosis competed on season 14 ofRuPaul's Drag Race as the first heterosexual,cisgender male contestant to appear on the show. Maddy Morphosis started doing drag after high school because it was "a safe space ... to explore my own gender identity". Maddy Morphosis has also said, "For anyone saying that I'm representing an underrepresented group, I appreciate you, but straight men are not a persecuted and excluded group within the drag community."[1]
Maddy Morphosis's entrance look on the first episode ofDrag Race was inspired byGuy Fieri.[3] Sam Damshenas ofGay Times wrote "Maddy immediately won over viewers due to her sheer respect for drag and LGBTQ+ culture, as well as her jaw-dropping runway presentations."[7] Maddy Morphosis received the Golden Boot award during the reunion episode,[8] and wore anElvis Presley-inspired outfit during the season finale.[9][10]
AfterDrag Race, Maddy Morphosis launched the talk showGive It To Me Straight on their YouTube channel and then later published on podcast-streaming services through the Moguls of Media network created by fellowDrag Race queensAlaska Thunderfuck andWillam Belli. The talk show features interviews with drag queens from theDrag Race franchise as well as other drag queens and other queer media personalities, and gives more in-depth discussions on her interviews in the talk show compared to other mainstream interviewers. Maddy Morphosis quotes, "I think people involved in the drag scene know the questions that we’re tired of answering. (...) No shade to the drag interviews out there, but I feel like a lot of the drag fans don’t really care about that. They want to know deeper stuff. They want to know what your thoughts and opinions are. They watch my show, they want to know where you came from, what happened.”[11]
Maddy Morphosis's partner Jennifer Standridge is a former drag performer, known as Miss Liza.[3][12] Maddy Morphosis identifies as heterosexual and cisgender,[13] and uses the pronounsshe/her when in drag. Maddy Morphosis has said, "I identify as a cisgender straight man, but I'mgender non-conforming in my presentation."[14]
| Year | Title | Role | Place | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14) | Herself | Contestant (10th place) | [15] |
| 2022 | RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked | |||
| 2023 | RuPaul's Drag Race (season 15) | Special guest; Episode: "Reunited!" |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Whatcha Packin' | Herself | Guest | [16] |
| Drag Us Weekly | [17] | |||
| 2023 | Give It to Me Straight | Host | [18] | |
| Death, Drag, and Decadence (withBombae andEvah Destruction) | [19] |
| Year | Title | Artist | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | "GAGA" | Grace Gaustad | [20] |
| Year | Award-giving body | Category | Work | Results | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Critics' Choice Real TV Awards | Best Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series (Shared with theSeason 14 cast) | RuPaul's Drag Race | Won | [21] |
