He wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Tots in Tinseltown. Plays: That’s It, Folks! Fables for Friends The Nice and the Nasty (all produced at Playwrights Horizons), and Strangers on Earth and Vertigo Park (both produced by Zena Group Theatre). Andrew would like to dedicate this performance to the memory of Kathy Ringley.
Throughout his drag career, he has raised over $4 million dollars and started his own foundation, The Nina West Foundation, primarily serving LGBTQIA+ organizations and causes. Andrew has released music EP’s “Drag Is Magic,” “The West Christmas Ever,” and “John Goodman” as Nina West all have charted on Billboard’s Top 10 for Children’s Music and Comedy. He provided the voice for the animated short Coaster.
Other TV credits: RuPaul’s Celebrity Drag Race, “Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch” (Alice, Paramount+), “‘This Is Me’ Pride Celebration Spectacular” (Disney+), “The Blue’s Clues Pride Parade Singalong” and “The Meaning of Pride” (Nickelodeon). In 2019, Andrew appeared in The Little Mermaid (Ursula) with the Butterfly Guild of Nationwide Children’s Hospital. On stage, he starred in the regional premieres of Buyer and Cellar (Alex More) and Peter and the Starcatcher (Betty Bumbrake) with CATCO Theatre Columbus. He has performed as drag queen Nina West since 2001 and competed on Season 11 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, for which he was named Miss Congeniality. The show has an important message of acceptance for everyone and encouragement to keep fighting the good fight while working together.Andrew is thrilled to be part of the cast of Hairspray. In the current political climate, it was incredible to see a show centered around so many women of different sizes, ages, and ethnicities, celebrating them all, asking for them all to be respected. It did drag a bit at times, mostly because they added enough commercials to turn a 2 hour show into a 3 hour broadcast. Good Morning Baltimoreopened the show with the same sort of excitement and movement though, and the momentum kept up throughout most of the show. The opening was great, though I don’t think anyone will ever top last winter’s Grease Live! opening with the beach fake out and the run across the studio lot while Jessie J sang. There were some things I didn’t like, which I’ll get to later, but I found it to be a well done production in general. To be fair, it’s kind of a can’t miss show for me anyway, and with this cast, that would be hard to do. Now that everyone’s hair has been sprayed so that it won’t move until the next decade, let’s review the show!
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