Michael Steck aka Pandora Boxx has been internationally entertaining the masses for more than a decade. Pandora most recently appeared as a contestant on the smash hit RuPaul's Drag Race (Season 2) on the LGBT network Logo. The show garnered the highest ratings ever for the cable network. Despite not winning, Pandora proved to be the break-out...
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Michael Steck aka Pandora Boxx has been internationally entertaining the masses for more than a decade. Pandora most recently appeared as a contestant on the smash hit RuPaul's Drag Race (Season 2) on the LGBT network Logo. The show garnered the highest ratings ever for the cable network. Despite not winning, Pandora proved to be the break-out star and was named by Entertainment Weekly "as their America's Next Drag Superstar." EW.com also called Pandora's "the most controversial elimination of the season." That popularity lead to becoming a drag professor on the spin-off show called RuPaul's Drag U which airing Monday nights at 9pm on Logo. Pandora will also be the host of the Dragtastic: NYC Stand Up Comedy Special, also to be aired on Logo.Pandora's alter-ego Michael Steck is also the creator, writer and star of his own public access/internet show The GAY (means happy) SHOW! which will be returning in 2011! Michael's credits run the gamut of media, including stage (Steel Magnolias in the role of Annelle), screen (A Voice from the Lantern in the role of Marvelous Marvin) and television (VH1s drag documentary Boys Will Be Girls) as well as his work being featured in several film festivals like the ImageOut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and the Berkeley Film and Video Festival (receiving two honorable mentions). His writing credits stem back from early childhood when he wrote and produced his first play for his elementary school. His award-winning written works have been published in several collegiate publications as well as various LGBT publications. His published celebrity interviews include, Cyndi Lauper, Julie Brown, Mink Stole and RuPaul.His most recent work is the hit play "The Lipstick Massacre." A comedic murder mystery in which he also starred. The play premiered at Rochester's MUCCC to four sold out shows which prompted its return several months later to the prestigious Geva Theatre Center, also in Rochester. The show was a huge success and may continue its life in NYC very soon.Pandora continues touring the nation from the success of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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