American actor, J. Harrison Ghee has appeared in quite a few Broadway shows, music videos, movies, and tv shows in the past five years. Some of them include High Maintenance, Heather Mae: Be Not Afraid, Raising Dion, Over My Dead Dead, Accused, and more. They became one of the first openly-binary actors to be nominated for and win Tony Awards.
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They began their career in the entertainment industry by working professionally at Tokyo Disneyland and on cruise ships. They began their drag persona, Crystal Demure while working in Tokyo. When they auditioned for Motown, they took the opportunity to share with the casting directors, who also worked on Kinky Boots, their story and connection with the Kinky Boots character Lola and were eventually cast as Lola in their Broadway debut.

Ghee was the first established drag performer to take on the role and eventually joined the national touring production of the show. Ghee joined the cast of Mrs. Doubtfire and began previews before the 2020 closing of Broadway.


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