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After three captivating seasons, DRAG HEALS is back for its highly anticipated fourth season ready to dazzle audiences once again with its unique blend of heart, soul, and fabulousness. DRAG HEALS will make its season four premiere on April 19th at 9:30pm ET/PT on OUTtv, OUTtv.com and the OUTtv channel on Prime Video and AppleTV+. The series has recently been nominated for two 2024 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Lifestyle Program or Series and Tracey Erin Smith for Best Host. DRAG HEALS invites viewers on an unforgettable journey into the transformative world of drag, offering anintimate look at the lives of drag artists as they embark on an intensive month-long workshop to craft their own mesmerizing shows. Drag Heals is based on a process that host and show creator Tracey Erin Smith developed that helps people excavate raw material from their lives, and using what she calls "Theatrical Alchemy." So whatever kind of form of drag a person is interested in doing, they combine that with their personal narrative into a short one person show and then at the end of this process together they perform live in front of a stage audience.  In Drag Heals, the cast isn’t just performing a lip sync, they’re grabbing hold of the mic and saying something important.  Over the course of the intensive workshops and story crafting, the participants dive deep into their personal lives to unearth lessons learned and bring them back to the audience as a gift. The resulting stories are emotional and cathartic, both for the drag artists and the audience who share in the experience.

Thank you for Tracey Erin Smith for joining us for this episode of our podcast. IT'S TIME TO TAKE OUR POWER BACK. IT'S TIME FOR OUR STORIES. Tracey Erin Smith is an award winning and world renowned teacher and performer, a spiritual comedienne who believes in crazy-wisdom and practices reverent irreverence. On January 20, 2017, Tracey led a bus of 54 women (and one man) to Washington on the "Soulomobile." It was one of 5 buses that travelled from Toronto to D.C. that day, and the only one that was essentially a storytelling workshop on wheels. Women are powerful drivers of economic growth, and their economic empowerment benefits all nations. Women’s March Canada supports the dismantling of economic barriers that obstruct women’s full and equal access to local, national, and global economic systems. Follow Tracey Erin Smith on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TraceyErinSmith MISSION STATEMENT Inspiring, uniting and leading the charge for the advancement of women across Canada. VISION STATEMENT Making the equality of women in Canada the new norm. Website: http://www.womensmarchcanada.com.

Tracey Erin Smith, award-winning solo performer and founder of SoulOTheatre, is interviewed on "Daytime Toronto" on September 13, 2012.

A one-women comedy about a female Rabbinical student who teams up with exotic dancers and becomes the world's first stripping Rabbi called The Burning Bush.

Interview on Rogers' "Daytime Toronto"

The SOULO Theatre Festival is Toronto's annual One-Person Show Festival that celebrates the best of Solo Theatre with top notch workshops and panels that teach people how to create their own solo show. SOULO Theatre won NOW Magazines BEST OF TORONTO 2014 - Small Theatre Category! SOULO Theatre is powered by the passion of volunteers and helps hundreds of people each year to tell their stories. In addition to our annual International Festival and we offer workshop and courses in Toronto and around the world. www.soulo.ca | info@soulo.ca THE SOULO TEAM Tracey Erin Smith - Founder / Artistic Director James Alan - General Manager Franny McCabe-Bennett - Front of House / Box Office / Producer Debra Bennett - Marketing Rosemary Doyle - Theatre Management Natalie Gisele - Stage Management Maddox Campbell - Stage Management Irma Gagnon - Social Media Chris Mayhem - Videographer Jodi Pape - Motherly Support Our Amazing Volunteers: Lisa Alves, Rina Wilkins,Kristina Agosti, Yolanda Bonnell, Aaron Kagan, Annie Rosenberg, Natalie Kulesza, Erin Rodgers, Marj Wingrove, Janice Yang, Mycah Panjaitan, Meagan Gove.

DRAG HEALS season 2 premieres on OUTtv Canada and Amazon on Friday, October 2nd, at 9pm ET/PT. DRAG HEALS is a hybrid stage workshop and documentary TV series (11x 30min) that follows eight drag artists over an intensive ten day workshop to build their own show. In each workshop, a guest coach joins stage director Tracey Erin Smith in exploring soul-deep story sharing techniques as well as the unique talents and skills required from a drag performer. The guest coaches include Leon Silvers, who developed drag therapy into a clinical practice, professional make-up artist Kosta MUA who helps refine and elevate the performers looks, a publicist who assists in crafting marketing and social media messaging to cultivate an audience, choreographer Jeff Dimitrios who brings the moves, and community mentors Flarington King, Titus Androgynous, Beardoncé and Champagna who offer sage advice from their experience working as drag artists in Canada and around the world. Over the course of the intensive workshops and story crafting, the participants dive deep into their personal lives to unearth lessons learned and bring them back to the audience as a gift. They are both the pirate and the pirated, the island and treasure. The resulting stories are emotional and cathartic, both for the drag artists and the audience who share in the experience. #DragHeals #Drag #GayTVseries #LGBTQ #QueerTV #GayTV #DragQueen #DragThing #DragKing #TraceyErinSmith Watch on Amazon, OUTtv, Vimeo, GooglePlay and more: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dragheals Keep in contact - we love when you rate, review and engage with our shows! Border2Border Entertainment: https://www.Border2Border.ca All promotion and production inquiries: info@border2border.ca FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/border2borderentertainment Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieDavid Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrcharliedavid/ Border2Border Entertainment Store: http://border2border.empirestores.co/