Murray Hill

Murray Hill is an American comedian, drag king, actor and television host who works out of New York City. Born in Massachusetts and raised in Connecticut, he studied photography at Boston University and then moved to New York for graduate work at the School of Visual Arts, where he photographed drag performers before taking the stage himself in 1996. He took his persona's name from the Manhattan neighborhood of Murray Hill, where he was living at the time. He hosted The Murray Hill Show from 1999 to 2006, started the annual Ms. Lez pageant in 2000, and spent ten years as the opening act on Dita Von Teese's tours. On television he appeared in Life & Beth and Somebody Somewhere, part of the main cast of the latter, hosted Drag Me to Dinner in 2023 and King of Drag, which premiered in 2025. The Seattle Weekly called him a pioneer of drag kings.