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Peaches Christ (stage name for Joshua Grannell; born January 7, 1974) is an American underground drag performer, emcee, filmmaker, and actor. Peaches currently resides in San Francisco, where her Backlash Production Company and Midnight Mass movie series are based. Grannell studied film at Penn State University, where his senior thesis film Jizzmopper: A Love Story, about a janitor at an adult video store, won the audience award at the annual Penn State Student Film Festival. Grannell developed the Peaches Christ character during the production of this film. Her Midnight Mass road show Short Film Retrospective has been on tour, appearing in Seattle, Berkeley, New York City, Brussels, Belgium, and Lausanne, Switzerland. On September 7, 2007, the San Francisco de Young Museum hosted a "Decade of Peaches Christ Retrospective" called Cattychism featuring artistic contributions inspired by Peaches. The event included ten years of costume design by long-time collaborator Tria Connell and ten years of graphic design by artist Chris Hatfield. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peaches Christ, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Joshua Grannell is an American underground drag performer, filmmaker, and actor widely recognized for creating the persona Peaches Christ and founding the Midnight Mass movie series.
He is known for writing and directing the cult horror-comedy film All About Evil and producing interactive queer cinematic events in San Francisco.
He is primarily based in San Francisco, where his production company and signature film screening series originated.
He creates camp horror-comedy films, underground stage performances, and immersive retrospective film events.