Jeffery Roberson just returned from a one-week engagement at the Sydney Opera House with his newest show Varla Jean Merman is Anatomically Incorrect. He also played the role of Mary Sunshine in the revival of Chicago on Broadway. He shared the Outfest Film Festival "Best Actor" Award and the Aspen HBO Film Festival "Best Actress" Award with his costars Jack Plotnick and Clinton Leupp for his featured performance in Girls Will Be Girls (Sundance Film Festival) directed by Richard Day. His shows Varla Jean Merman's I'm Not Paying For This, Girl With A Pearl Necklace; An Act Of Love, Under A Big Top, Holiday Ham!, All Washed Up! and The Very Worst of Varla Jean Merman have filled concert halls and cabarets across the world including Carnegie Hall, the New York Public Theater, the Sydney Opera House, London’s Soho Theatre, Melbourne’s Forum Theatre, LA's Renberg Theatre, and San Francisco's Victoria Theatre.

Jeffery wrote and starred in the short Improve Your History with Varla Jean: Stonewall, for the launch of the MTV's new television network Logo. In May 2006, he was the opening act at Vienna's LifeBall, Europe's largest fundraiser for AIDS research, where he performed on the same bill with Sharon Stone, Catherine Deneuve and Naomi Campbell. He recently won rave reviews for directing and starring in Shut Up!, Sweet Charlotte in New Orleans at Le Petit Theatre this past November and the production will have a return three week engagement in May, 2007.

Jeffery also made his network television debut on ABC's All My Children in the recurring role of lady of the evening Rosemary Chicken. He also appeared at the Long Wharf Theatre in Hartford Stage's production of The Mystery of Irma Vep directed by Michael Wilson performing the roles originally made famous by Charles Ludlam.

Other film and TV credits include HBO's Dragtime, E!'s Fashion Emergency, E! Goes to Cannes, MTV's True Life: Mardi Gras, and Francesca Page with Rossy DePalma. Jeffery has appeared in many TWEED Fraktured Classiks productions in New York City, including The Mailman Always Comes Twice, Screen Door and CAGED! with Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers and Isabella Rossellini, Lypsinka is Harriet Craig, The Miracle Worker (with Charles Busch) and Varla Jean Merman is The Bad Seedling. Jeffery has opened for Jennifer Holliday and has also shared the stage with Betty Buckley, fulfilling his utmost gay fantasy, singing excerpts from the notorious Broadway flop Carrie as part of Ms. Buckley's cabaret act at the Bottom Line.

Varla Jean Merman is Anatomically Incorrect just completed a ten week run in Los Angeles and was reviewed by David Nichols of the LA Times who wrote "Not since Divine and '50s cult icon Rae Bourbon has a drag artiste so nailed the risqué, old-school pleasures of the genre, and Varla Jean Merman Is Anatomically Incorrect! does a body good! Jeffery Roberson's incomparable drag creation revisits her cabaret roots in peak sidesplitting form." The show will finally play in New York on June 16th, 2007 for two shows only at Joe’s Pub at the New York Public Theater.

This summer, Jeffery returns to Provincetown with the world premiere of Varla Jean Merman Loves A Foreign Tongue!

Contact information: Mark Cortale at 917.538.7341 or illyriamc@aol.com.