Boulet Brothers

The Boulet Brothers are most known for their reality TV competition series The Boulet Brothers' Dragula. The show is loosely based on a nightlife event of the same name created by the Boulet Brothers and is currently in its third season streaming on Netflix. Many of the challenges and themes of the show were inspired by nightlife events hosted by the Boulet Brothers.[6] The show has received international praise for its creativity, talent and diversity.[7][8] The Boulet Brothers serve as the showrunners, executive producers and hosts of the show.

The Boulet Brothers wrote, produced and co-directed a spin-off film titled Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Resurrection, which Digital Spy described as "part-horror movie, part-documentary and part-reality competition."[9] The film is due to be released as an original film on AMC Networks' Shudder streaming service on October 20, 2020.[10]

The Boulet Brothers are the executive producers and hosts of Fangoria’s The Boulet Brothers’ Creatures of the Night Podcast. The podcast is a horror variety show styled after a 1940s style radio program. Each episode offers an introductory dialogue, a newscast and discussion of entertainment news, a horror movie review, a celebrity interview, and listener questions.[11] The show's “Haunting of History” segment revisits famous historical hauntings. The show is co-hosted by Ian Devoglaer, the supervising producer of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula.[12] Guests include Rose McGowan, Poppy, Dita Von Teese, Rachel True, and Darren Stein.[13]

The Boulet Brothers founded and host the Los Angeles Halloween Ball, which has been held annually at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles since 2001.[16]  The event takes place on several floors and features DJs, themed dancers, haunted mazes, carnival style games, stage shows, and a midnight stage spectacular.[17] Performers that have been featured at the event include Elvira, Clive Barker, Trixie Mattel and Violet Chachki.[18] It has also become tradition for winners of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula show to perform at the event.[19]

The Boulet Brothers organized and hosted “Queen Kong”, a weekly Friday night dance party and live cabaret that ran for four years in Downtown Los Angeles at the gay bar Precinct, from 2015 to 2019.[20] The party was a celebration of alternative queer art and live performance.[21] The event has been credited with pioneering a new countercultural queer nightlife scene in Downtown Los Angeles.[22]

Each week featured an eight show stage spectacular hosted and curated by the Boulet Brothers featuring non-traditional drag artists, queer rappers, voguers, dancers, singers and “queer artists from all walks of life”.[23] The event featured guest performers from RuPaul's Drag Race, as well as queer icons such as Bruce LaBruce, Lady Bunny, Coco Peru, Peaches Christ, Heklina, Homo Riot, Kevin Aviance, and Pansy Division.

The Boulet Brothers were founding members of the DTLA Proud Festival in Los Angeles.[22] They were hosts and master of ceremonies of the event for the first two years.[24][25]

Dragula was a monthly dance party and drag event which premiered at the Faultline leather bar in Silverlake, California.[26] The event is known for bringing a gritty, punk, and glamorous alternative to the Los Angeles queer nightlife scene. It was billed as a celebration of “Drag, Filth, Leather and Glamour.”[27] Dragula was held in a gay men’s leather bar and featured trans women and men go-go dancers and leather clad muscle men entertainers.[28] The event was hosted and curated by the Boulet Brothers and featured shock themed stage shows performed by non-traditional drag artists including horror themed drag queens, drag kings, afab queens, and non-binary artists. The highlight of the event was the “Midnight Drag Pageant” which saw thirteen drag artists competing on stage in extreme challenges to win a $300 cash prize, a crown, and the title of Dragula.[29] Due to the party’s success, the event expanded and began running monthly in San Francisco at the San Francisco Eagle.[27] The party was also held in New York City for a special one night event as well as in Austin, Texas as part of the International Drag Festival.[30][31]

The Boulet Brothers held the last live 'Dragula" event on its third anniversary, and announced that the party was transitioning into a reality competition TV show. The trailer for the first season of the show was screened at the end of the party.[32]

Miss Kitty's Parlour was the Boulet Brothers’ first event, which they started in 2001 after relocating from East Village, Manhattan to Los Angeles.[33] The event was held every Friday night at the Dragonfly nightclub in Hollywood for nine years.[34] The party is considered to be one of the most infamous weekly events held in Los Angeles due to its celebration of pansexuality, performance and shocking stage shows. “Miss Kitty’s Parlour” was billed as an “Erotic Cabaret” that featured multiple stage productions, contests, live installation artists, costumed dancers, and theatrical fetish themed shows.[35] The event was infamous for having a diverse crowd and blending together club goers of all sexualities, gender identities and cultures. The L.A. Times described Miss Kitty's Parlour as being attended by “drag queens, goth gamines, and would-be NYC club kids of every (legal) age, size, gender, and sexual orientation.”[22]