‘Anyone Someplace’ Star and Drag Icon Murray Hill to Launch Memoir in 2025 (Unique)

Murray Hill, the queer icon and comic additionally identified for his roles in Anyone Someplace and Drag Me to Dinner, is about to launch a memoir.

Showbiz! My Surprising Life as a Center-Aged Man can be printed in 2025 by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Hill’s memoir was acquired by Pamela Cannon, vp, govt editor at Gallery Books, in an unique submission by Robert Guinsler at Sterling Lord Literistic for its North American rights.

Showbiz! will provide Hill’s followers and memoir readers a vivid accounting of his private {and professional} trajectory. That features his emergence from New York’s underground nightlife scene, by means of Dita Von Teese’s worldwide tour Strip Strip Hooray and the music movies of feminist queer artists like Peaches and Gossip into the Hollywood highlight, the place he impressed his critically beloved character on HBO’s hit Anyone, Someplace.

The memoir will hint the long-lasting drag king’s origins, chronicling his 1997 run for mayor of New York Metropolis and the way he made a reputation in comedy on levels like Only for Laughs, the New York Comedy Pageant and Edinburgh Fringe earlier than exploring how the worldwide entertainer hit his appearing stride — and located each love and a household of alternative — by his 50s. It can additionally discover his dependancy challenges, experiences of heartbreak and a glance again into his turbulent and traumatic childhood.

He was just lately awarded the New York Voices fee from Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, the house to his longstanding, sold-out vacation present A Murray Little Christmas.