Are You in the Club

Sally Forth. You either get it, or you don’t and luckily for us, we do.

On Friday, October 10th, Edgewood Productions presented their very first Midnight Massacre open stage, with a total of 14 performers, ranging from wrestling acts, gore, and in the case of our winner, puppetry. Sally Forth (@misssallyforth) performed “Where is my Husband?” by Raye as an appropriately timed Corpse Bride and Maggot.

The inspiration? The trash!

“That week, our trash had maggots in it, and it made me feel something…I feel moved by these nasty little things, and what better place to do it than with these fucking freaks at Edgewood?” Sally says, and what an honor it is to be known with such love and disgust. However, this was not the first time that she had been dressed as the Corpse Bride. Sally’s mother was a clown, and growing up, it was her staple when she was able to steal from her mom’s Ben Nye collection.

Makeup was always extremely prevalent in her life, starting a small journey on Instagram with makeup artistry pre-entering the drag scene, but her looks as an artist are not synonymous with her persona. “The difference, for me, is when I’m doing a makeup look and posting it separate from Sally, Sally is willing to have criticism. I am not…I don’t put on lashes, [but] Sally wears double stacks. You feel like you’re a different person…It’s easier as someone who doesn’t have a past [and] no preconceived notions…to accept that.” Sally Forth is a character, and the person behind it all doesn’t feel the need to be known. “Sally likes attention,” and don’t we all?

Attention and publicity are not concepts that are new to Sally Forth, coming from an incredibly large family, that prioritizes the family name. Though Sally is not an inherently public person, she finds comfort in her persona, because if worst comes to worse, “I can kill her!” While it may sound drastic on paper, the ability to deconstruct and rebuild your art is one of the greatest gifts of drag. “People know me in this sphere…but they don’t have to know me.” Drag is a disguise, “absorbing the good and the bad.”

Sally has only been performing for about six months, but she’s certainly a competitor and an incredibly valuable character. She’s enthusiastic, and all in. Sally Forth, forwards, and onwards.