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Murray Hill is a hugely successful drag king performer who’s been a fixture in the NYC drag scene for decades. He’s also an actor – he played Fred Rococo on the hit HBO show Somebody, Somewhere. And recently, Hill added the title of memorist to his resume. His book Showbiz!: My Life as a Middle-Aged Man just came out last month, and in it Hill talks about how he went from a New England kid who grew up in a rough home to an Icon. The hardest working middle-aged man in showbiz, as he calls himself.
Murray Hill joined Bullseye to chat with us about the new book and what it was like to step away from his on-stage persona and tell his real life story. He also talked about his time as a photographer, meeting Paul Reubens for the first time, and what it’s been like to star alongside her fellow stage performer Bridgette Everette in Somebody, Somewhere.
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