SPACE QUEEN is the first instalment of original work written by Aaron Nickol (aka Shelita Cox). In it's development throughout 2025 as part of a partnership program between Victoria's Fringe Festival and Intrepid Theatre Society's Indigenous Artist Program. Showings of a work-in-progress was presented in Victoria's Fringe Festival (2025) on August 23rd at 7:00pm and August 30th at 3:00pm at the Intrepid Theatre Studio which was an overwhelming success as both script-readings sold-out, and SPACE QUEEN was chosen as runner-up for "Best Musical" in the Pick of the Fringe awards.
Fully produced and performed shows will premiere at Victoria's Fringe Festival in 2026.
Space Queen is a one-person sci-fi drag musical created and performed by queer artist Aaron Nickol (aka Shelita Cox) and produced by Drag Sunday Productions. Blending original synth music by Jarrett Jacklin with melodies and demo vocals by Daniel Hatenboer.
The show imagines a distant future where queer existence has been erased...
With the underground queer movement gaining momentum...
Through live vocals, narrative world-building, and embodied resistance, Space Queen explores queer survival, ancestral memory, chosen family, and the radical power of claiming space.
Ideal for audiences drawn to queer theatre, drag artistry, futurist performance, and LGBTQ+ storytelling, this is a musical about what it means to remember, and what happens when the erased return to speak.
SPACE QUEEN was successful in receiving a BC Arts Council Grant which will help fully realize the produced run of shows in 2026.
" A transfixing, and harmonic, melancholy journey to the future. "
"A passion project by the queers and for the queers, Space Queen combines world-building history and a compelling story about the clandestine first drag show on another world in the distant future. Told as a one-person drama alongside songs boasting poetic lyrics and sparkling electronics, the to-be fully produced Space Queen is bound to be a fun and yet deeply engaging original queer story. "
" I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the beginning stages of this show! I really resonated with the experiences of queer people and artists being shown through a futuristic dystopian world that reflects our past & current struggles for space, visibility & peace. As a drag performer I was touched to the point of tears with writing and songs in this piece. To say I’m excited to see how this grows, transform and comes to life next year is an understatement. Space Queen was the highlight of my Fringe experience!! "
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