Dylan Mulvaney to Make Her Off-Broadway Debut in Solo Show The Least Problematic Woman in the World (Exclusive) Dylan Mulvaney is about to ...
Dylan Mulvaney to Make Her Off-Broadway Debut in Solo Show The Least Problematic Woman in the World (Exclusive)
Dylan Mulvaney is about to reveal a side of herself that isn't very well known.
Mulvaney, who describes herself as a 28-year-old 'actress-influencer', is generally very light-hearted on social media compared to most people. According to a comment she recently got on TikTok, she has been a 'wonderfully positive' person online. Mulvaney avoids displaying any hints of darkness or malice in her on-camera persona, so if she faces the camera, she is much likelier to smile than frown. People take note of her when she tells a risque joke (''queefinator'', anyone?) or frowns.
However, this is only the top of the ice berg. Mulvaney is hoping to show the rest of it in a theatre production at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City this September.
Mulvaney, who is originally from California, has been involved in some type of performing arts for a very long time. She is most widely known for being the mastermind behind The Least Problematic Woman in the World a one-woman show which will have a limited run in New York. This show was originally called ''Faghag'' and according to an exclusive interview with a PEOPLE magazine rep, the girl cannot wait to get the show on stage. According to her, she has a much darker sense of humour than some people know.
According to the exclusive report from PEOPLE magazine, the actress is almost always cheery on camera, but in reality her real humour is 'much darker'. "The show is a lot more adult than anything I've ever produced," Mulvaney remarks about the Tim Jackson-directed show. "There is a raunchy edge to it that you might not expect from me." It is not that she has held back about her personal choices on social media for the last few years. 2022, to be exact if that's when her "Days of Girlhood" hits became a hit on TikTok. Mulvaney donated her fortune to "Days of Girlhood" and Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer, her memoir which she co-authored this year.
Then why has she "toned it down" in her TikTok videos? Well, Paper Doll is written a tinge differently from Other Problems, as Mulvaney acknowledges. "I think the new thing that I'm writing is more of a drama and a lot darker than anything I've written, but there are still some laughs in there," she suggests.
The date when Paper Doll is set is what makes it exceptional for him. "It's all really dumb, but the national don't mess with the U.S. and democrats themes don't seem as popular as terrorist support currently," he remarks. "Beergate" originated in 2023, following the release of a Bud Light-sponsored video by the actress. The Republicans condemned other contributors to the creation of the video, who were open about their workings as a transperson, and they called for a boycott. Some set fire to beer cases to demonstrate their losses. "Afterwards, I was like,' Oh my gosh, I need to get back on stage, and it's really hard to get cast as a trans person right now in theatre.' I was like,' I need to write something," the artist remembers.
"Originally want the show to be something that was kind of unrelated to my transition,' she concedes, "but I feel that as I started writing it, I was just like,' when I place this on stage, I really want it to be a one-person play, and I really want to tell a story that only I can tell,' and for me, that is a wacko experience transitioning and becoming a public figure at the exact same time – they depend on each other." "Like a therapy for me," she mused about writing the work, as she had made a New York presentation the next step. "Now that I've done some healing privately when it comes to the traumas of what I experienced the last few years, I feel like I'm in a place to share that," she stated, "and to help other people laugh with me and not at me."
While Paper Doll is "very vulnerable and raw," Least Problematic is a "fever dream" alongside being somewhat humorous and mostly based in Mulvaney's experiences. Also, the triller claimed, "there are plenty of things that people don't know yet and that I haven't shared in those other spaces that I think [audiences] will be really excited about."
"Hopefully," she says, Least Problematic will "show them a holistic version of who I am" — and that's a task made difficult by social media users' innate nature to categorize creators. "I think often when you go viral for one specific thing, which happened to me with basically my transition, people then forget that you can do other things," she related.
Mulvaney said she buries the labels she put in episode and had an actual "twink funeral" at one point, dance on the grave and bravely representing the individuals who continue to use them. "There's times," the star disclosed, "when you almost figure out who I'm talking about or who I'm mocking, but then I'm the one playing that character. And it has been really powerful, especially with individuals who have been pretty, you know, critical of me in very negative ways — maybe we call them the haters – to be able to reclaim some of my power over them and represent them." Being such fun of Lucille Lortel, Mulvaney tells me, "I don't imagine, like, conservative news anchors or downtown country rock stars showing up. But, you know, if they did, I would be so, so grateful they were there," Mulvaney adds. "Because I think for me, so often, when we're talking about gender and sexuality and race, the people in the room tend to be just a little chasm of humans who think that way."
"I bet most of the house will be made up of my followers and fans in the trans community, and that's who I'm so excited to share this with," Mulvaney says, "but I also just want to make sure that if anyone's on the fence, or they don't know a trans person yet, I would love to be a friendly, zero-intimidation face for them to connect with, so they don't just have these one-dimensional depictions of what they're seeing in the media."
No matter what the topic, Mulvaney says, "I always say that, like, my experience of transness is probably the most privileged, version of it that there is. And so if someone comes to see the show, like, I hope they find five other amazing trans people to follow and five other pieces of theirs to see, and, hopefully, doing this show in New York will get lots of people excited to see more theatre by amazing trans people – and maybe I'll get to play some iconic Broadway women and roles one day."" She said, "But really, it's an opportunity in a time that feels so dark for our country to have an f---ing laugh about the trauma."
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