Cast Bios

  • Coco Peru

    Miss Coco Peru (Dorothy) has been a household name in the LGBTQ+ community for over 30 years. Coco got her start in the early 90's as a downtown favorite in NYC’s cabaret world. Since then, Coco has received worldwide acclaim for her award-winning solo shows and has enjoyed an expansive career in film, television, and digital work.TV: Dead- Paranormal Park (Netflix) Will and Grace (recurring role), How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development and two stand-up comedy specials on LOGO. Film: trick, To Wong Foo… and the cult classic Girls Will Be Girls. Digital: Madame Coco Knows (Logo), Casa Coco (a monthly streaming show during covid lockdown) and her YouTube videos with over 13 million views.

  • D'Arcy Drollinger

    D’Arcy Drollinger (Rose) is the appointed San Francisco Drag Laureate, the first ever position of its kind in the world. D’Arcy is an actor, writer, director, choreographer, producer and entrepreneur. Drollinger is the owner and artistic director of OASIS, voted San Francisco's best nightclub/cabaret. D’Arcy has written over a dozen original works, including: Bitch Slap, Temple of Poon and Disastrous, as well as the web series Hot Trash. Drollinger’s first feature film, Shit & Champagne, became an instant cult classic and is now streaming on Hulu. D’Arcy is the executive director of San Francisco-based nonprofit, Oasis Arts, dedicated to providing access and resources to LGBTQIA+ artists. Other credits include: The Producers (first Broadway production), and Hairspray the Musical (first Broadway production). Drollinger is the creator of Sexitude™, the body-positive, age-positive, sex-positive dance experience based in San Francisco.

  • Matthew Martin

    Matthew Martin (Blanche), a native San Franciscan, has been conjuring many stars of the Silver Screen for years on stage and screen. He starred as Bette Davis in the film parodies Baby Jane?, Hush Up, Sweet Charlotte and as the nefarious villainess in D’Arcy Drollinger's Sh*t and Champagne, all available on Amazon Prime An actor, singer, dancer, director, choreographer and man of many faces and voices, Matthew recently incarnated Joan Crawford in Michael Phillis' comedy The Hand That Rocks the Crawford at Oasis in San Francisco. Matthew has brought Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Ann Miller, Jane Russell, Susan Hayward, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, Mitzi Gaynor and many other stars to life on stage and screen in Marc Huestis' productions at the Castro Theater and appeared in multiple productions at Theater Rhino with John Fisher. As Blanche Devereaux, he has loved working with his good friends in The Golden Girls since 2007.

  • Holotta Tymes

    Holotta Tymes (Sophia), a female impersonator with a career spanning almost 30 years cross crossing the country professionally in many large shows including as the comedy star of the world famous finocchios in the 90s until it’s closing in 1999, a north beach main stay for 83 years and the longest running female impersonation show in the world. An entrepreneur, she has branched out into several businesses, including owning her own nightclub, club 1220 in Walnut Creek. Holotta started her career, young, working in theater, both on stage, touring as well as writing, directing. Her credits include voice over work for animated cartoons and commercials. In her teens, she wrote and directed an all male comedy version of Romeo and Juliet called “me and Juliet” she toured for many years in the shows title role of Juliet. Between her love of theater, family, and her beloved yorkies, she finds time to raise funds for the San Francisco aids foundation and the LA gay and lesbian center, proudly an eight time lifecycle rider! Hello riders, hello roadies!

  • Manuel Caneri

    Manuel Caneri (Various) has been performing on Bay Area stages for over 30 years. In addition to his 13 seasons as the "fifth Golden Girl", Manuel has performed with many theatre companies including Ray of Light, Broadway By The Bay, Hillbarn Theatre, Palo Alto Players, Foothill Music Theatre among others. He has also appeared in various shows and cabarets at Oasis as well as with Peaches Christ Productions and made his film debut in the movie adaptation of S**t and Champagne, written and directed by the iconic D'Arcy Drollinger.

  • Tom Shaw

    Tom Shaw (pianist) is an accomplished singer-songwriter, musician, actor, award-winning film composer, musical theatre accompanist, and cabaret performer who has been performing with SF’s beloved Golden Girls since 2014. At SF Oasis or Martuni’s (with or without his jazz trio, Tom Shaw Trio) he has accompanied cabaret stars like the late Heklina, Varla Jean Merman, Matthew Martin, Mrs. Kasha Davis, Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, and Vanessa Bousay. He recently acquired significant internet fame with the viral song, “Taste The Biscuit”, from the Toasters ‘N’ Moose musical mockumentary in which he starred, “Chickens in the Shadows” (FREE on YouTube!).

  • Michael Phillis

    Michael Phillis (Various) is an award-winning writer, director, actor, producer, and drag artist. His written works include the solo plays D*Face, Dolls, and Patty From HR as well as full-length plays The Hand That Rocks The Crawford, Sqream, Pride in Gotham, and Thighs Wide Shut. He is the writer, director, and co-creator of Baloney, San Francisco's Gay All-Male Revue at Oasis as well as the writer, director, and co-creator of Pop Culture Immersives, the Bay Area's newest immersive theater generator. sfbaloney.com

  • Snaxx

    Snaxx (Crew / Cameo) is thrilled to be back dressing backstage and making guest appearances at The Golden Girls LIVE. She was recently seen in The Rocky Horror Show as Columbia, and last year's Halloween production of SQREAM, where she played Neve Sidney. Snaxx is basically part of the furniture at Oasis, working both onstage and offstage / behind the scenes as Oasis' booking manager. Snaxx recently competed in Alaska's Drag Queen of the Year pageant, and made it as a finalist winning Best Talent for her performance. Love, pizza, and rainbows! @eatmoresnaxx

  • Joshua Beld

    Joshua Beld (Crew / Cameo) graduated from SFSU in 2010 with a Bachelors of Music in Classical Vocal Performance. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2006, he has been fortunate to work with many performance companies ranging from opera to burlesque and everything in between. His recent show credits include playing Albin/Zsa Zsa in La Cage Aux Folles, the Emcee in Cabaret, Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Musical, Luis Carruthers in American Psycho, Mr. Hardwick/Mr. Bradley/Ashley/Nick/Johnny/Tim in Debbie Does Dallas the Musical, and 6 male roles in Oasis' production of Sex and the City, Live! which earned him a TBA nomination for Best Featured Performer in a Specialty Performance.

  • Lauren Burgat

    Lauren Burgat (Crew / Cameo) has been involved in theater since the 8th grade when she performed in her first ever musical, Footloose! In 2012, Lauren obtained her BA in Drama from San Francisco State University; while in school, she spent her summers in her hometown of Sacramento working in the wardrobe department of California Music Circus. Since college, Lauren has stage managed for companies like EyeZen Presents, Theatre Rhino, and SF Sketchfest. She has also directed shows with her theatre company, Breach Once More, and Pacifica Spindrift Players. Lauren is thrilled to spend her third year working with The Golden Girls Live!