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Nicholle Pride
Drag Artist and Trickster
Tom Bardwell is an Ohio native sketching into the world Miss Nicholle Pride, the drag persona he created in 1996.
Nicholle Pride pays homage to soft, sharp-tongued queens like Afrodite, Amazing Grace, Craig Hickman and Kevin Aviance who've positioned drag to legendary proportions by outlandish renderings of Black male gender (re)presentation on stage.
His pedagogical approach is one of deep physicality and sourcing moments of transcendent live performance.
Photo: Darren Lee Miller