KING
Molasses
King Molasses (They/them) is an award-winning nonbinary drag king and performing artist based in Washington DC. They were voted DC’s Best Drag King by Washington Blade Magazine and the DC Drag Awards in 2022 and 2023, consecutively. They have been featured in The Washington Post, Good Morning America, NPR’s 1A and Vox.
“drag is an art form used to navigate our emotions, our traumas and life at large.” - King Molasses
A DMV native from Prince George’s County, MD, Molasses debuted in 2018 and has since become a fixture in the district’s performing arts scene.
Their work has been commissioned in venues all over the country, including the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian galleries, and Sasha Velour’s acclaimed NYC drag revue, NightGowns. Their drag is a call to mindfulness, black surrealism, and heritage-based movements that dare to create images of self-liberation.