Ginger Minj

Ginger Minj is the stage name of Joshua Allen Eads,[1] an American drag queen, actor, singer, songwriter, and reality television personality most known for placing as the runner-up on the seventh season of the reality television competition RuPaul's Drag Race and subsequently the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars.

Ginger Minj
Minj at RuPaul's DragCon LA in 2018
Born
Joshua Allen Eads

Lake County, Florida
Other namesGinger
Occupation
Years active2015-present
Known for
Websitehttp://gingerminj.com/

Early life

Eads was born in Lake County, Florida, and majored in theater at school. His drag mother is Rusty Fawcett.[2]

Career

Eads as Ginger Minj competed on the seventh season of the reality television competition RuPaul's Drag Race, which was announced on March 2, 2015.[3] Throughout the competition, she won three challenges, most notably Snatch Game, where she portrayed Adele (alongside Kennedy Davenport's portrayal of Little Richard).[4] Eads' performance of Adele was later ranked as the sixth best Snatch Game performances in Drag Race "herstory" by Sam Damshenas of Gay Times.[5]

She placed in the top three in the season, but lost to Violet Chachki. She was announced as one of ten contestants for the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars on June 17, 2016.[6] She was eliminated in the third episode, placing eighth. She appeared as a guest for the first challenge in the premiere of season eleven of Drag Race.[7]

Following Drag Race, Eads embarked on several international drag tours. In 2016, she was a part of Battle of the Seasons rotating roster of queens.[8] She hosted the Haters Roast tour, though controversially was later fired from the event.[9][10] She later hosted Queens United in November 2017, a benefit put together by Phi Phi O'Hara in an effort to raise money for people affected by Hurricane Maria.[11]

In April 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, Eads was announced as a featured cast member for the very first Digital Drag Fest, an online drag festival.[12]

Throughout her career as a drag artist, she has competed in many pageants, holding several titles including "Miss Gay United States 2013" and "Miss National Comedy Queen 2012."[13]

Music

Eads released her first single, "Ooh Lala Lala" on June 1, 2015.[14] A second single, "Bad, Bad Boy" was released on October 21, 2016.[15]

Her debut album, Sweet T, was released in October 2016.[16] The album consists of a mix of original songs and covers and features of variety of styles including pop, rock, dance, jazz, and soul. Minj contributed to the compilation album Christmas Queens 3 in 2017.[17]

Her second album Clown Fucker was set to be released in December 2018,[18] and was pushed back to early 2019, but remains unreleased.[19]

Acting

Eads began his career as a child actor, acting in Christian films and books on tape.[20] As an adult, he continued acting, starring in Clandestine Arts' production of Avenue Q.[21] She performed with other All Stars 2 queens at the Trailblazer Honors for Harvey Fierstein as the only singing performer on July 7, 2016.[22] She was with Katya and Alyssa Edwards on commercial bumpers for a Mama's Family marathon for the Logo channel.[23]

Minj voiced the character Lemon Chiffon in the 2018 Netflix original series Super Drags.[24][25]

In 2018, he starred in the musical comedy film Dumplin'.[18][26] In 2020, Eads portrayed Tommy and drag queen Fanny Pak on the Netflix comedy AJ and the Queen alongside RuPaul in the episode "Fort Worth".

In August 2020, Eads starred in Drama at Drag Brunch: The Slaying of the Sequin Sisters, the fifth installment of the virtual interactive Broadway Murder Mystery story, portraying the role of Casey Closed.[27]

Personal life

Eads is from Florida,[16] and was married to his husband, Ceejay Russell by Michelle Visage at a DragCon convention in 2017.[28]

Discography

Studio albums
Title Details Ref
Sweet T [16]

Singles
Title Year Album
"Ooh Lala Lala" 2016 Sweet T
"Bad, Bad Boy"
"Winter Wonderland"
(featuring Gidget Galore)		 2020 Non-album single

Other appearances
Title Year Other artist(s) Album
"Christma-Hannu-Kwanzaa-Ka" 2015 N/A Christmas Queens
"Let the Music Play" RuPaul RuPaul Presents CoverGurlz 2
"Eggs" 2016 Lucian Piane, Trixie Mattel RuPaul's Drag Race: The Rusical
"Down Home Country Christmas" Carnie Wilson Christmas Queens 2
"Xmas Hams" Jiggly Caliente
"White Christmas" 2017 N/A Christmas Queens 3
"All This Body" 2018 Jiggly Caliente, Alaska Thunderfuck T.H.O.T. Process
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" N/A Christmas Queens 4

Filmography

Film credits
Year Title Role Notes
2018 Miss Arizona[29] Ginger
A Queen For the People Himself Documentary film about Bob the Drag Queen
Dumplin' Candee Disch Netflix Original Film
2019 The Queens Herself Documentary

Television credits
Year Title Role Notes Ref
2015 RuPaul's Drag Race (season 7) Himself (contestant) Runner-up [3]
2015 RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked Himself [30]
2016 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 2) Himself (contestant) 8th Place [6]
2017 Good Behavior Ruby Flare Episode: You Could Discover Me [31]
House of Mayhem Himself Unsold pilot [29]
@midnight Himself Episode 580 [32]
2018 Super Drags Lemon Chiffon English dub, Main Cast [24]
2019 RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11) Himself (guest)/Donald Trump 2 episodes [33]
2020 AJ and the Queen Tommy / Fanny Pak Guest appearance [34]

Theatre
Year Title Role Theatre Ref(s)
2009 The Wiz Lion Theater Downtown, Orlando [35]
2010 Torch Song Trilogy Arnold Beckoff Breakthrough Theatre [36]
2011 Evil Dead: The Musical Jake Theater Downtown, Orlando [37]
Chicago Mary Sunshine [38]
2012 Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig Robinson The Abbey [38]
2014 Sweeney Todd Mrs. Lovett The Venue [39]
2015–2017 The Rocky Horror Show Frank N. Furter Woodlawn Theatre [40][21]
2017 Avenue Q Brian State Theater [21][29]
2019 The Golden Gals Blanche Footlight Theater at The Parliament House [41]
Women Behind Bars Ada The Montalban [42]
2020 Rozeanne Rozeanne Footlight Theater at The Parliament House [43]

Music videos
Year Title Artist Ref.
2015 "Uptown Fish" Shangela [44]
2015 "Born Naked" (Stadium Remix) RuPaul [45]
2015 "Ooh Lala Lala" Herself [46]
2016 "The T" Alaska Thunderfuck [47]
2017 "White Christmas" Herself [48]
2018 "Where My Man At" Velo ft Manila Luzon and Eureka O'Hara [49]
2018 "All This Body" Jiggly Caliente ft. Alaska Thunderfuck & Ginger Minj [50]
2018 "Jolene" Dolly Parton [51]
2020 "Winter Wonderland" Herself [52]

Web series
Year Title Role Notes Ref
2015 Drunk Makeover Himself (guest) Episode 23 [53]
2016 Transformations with James St. James Himself (guest) Episode: "Ginger Minj" [54]
2016 Cooking with Drag Queens Himself (guest) Episode: "Ginger Pie" [55]
2016 Couple$ For Ca$h Himself (guest) Episode: "Ginger Minj & Chris" [56]
2016–2018 Southern Fried Sass Himself (co-host) WOWPresents Plus Original, 4 episodes [57]
2016 Drag Queens React Himself / Donald Trump World of Wonder original [58]
2016 The Final Lap Himself (guest) Season 2, episode 3 [59]
2016 Queen to Queen Himself (guest) With Coco Montrese [60]
2017 Hey Qween Himself (guest) Episode: "Ginger Minj on Hey Qween!" [61]
2018 CRAIGSLIST Missed Connections Himself Guest [62]
2018 Spillin' the Tea Himself (panelist) Billboard series [63]
2018 The Pit Stop Himself (guest) Episode: "Ginger Minj" [64]
2019 Wigs in a Blanket Himself Co-host with Jiggly Caliente [65]
2019 The X Change Rate Himself (guest) Episode: "Ginger Minj & Jinkx Monsoon" [66]
2020 The Golden Pandemic Blance Starring role [67]
2020 Binge Herself (guest) Podcast by Entertainment Weekly [68]

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