Based in Rochester, Mrs. Kasha Davis frequently performs with long-time collaborators and fellow RuPaul's Drag Race alums Pandora Boxx and Darienne Lake.[6][7] She has performed "Bosom Buddies", a two-woman show with Darienne Lake nationally and internationally.[7][8][9] Prior to Drag Race, Mrs. Kasha Davis starred in and co-wrote the film Mrs. Kasha Davis: The Life of an International Housewife Celebrity with Michael Steck (Pandora Boxx).[10] For fourteen years, Mrs. Kasha Davis has co-written and performed with fellow Rochester-based drag queen Aggy Dune in "Big Wigs", a touring diva impersonation theater show.[11][12]
Mrs. Kasha Davis has performed her one-woman show "There's Always Time for a Cocktail" at Laurie Beechman Theater in New York, as well as venues in San Francisco, Rochester, London and Brighton in the United Kingdom.[6][13][14][15][12] She is also an advocate for and frequent performer in Drag Story Hour, a national event bringing drag queens into libraries and theaters to read books to children.[16][17]
In June 2019, Mrs. Kasha Davis was one of 37 queens to be featured on the cover of New York Magazine.[22] In 2021, director Angela Washko's documentary film Workhorse Queen premiered at Slamdance Film Festival. The film focuses on Popil's life before and after getting cast on RuPaul's Drag Race.[23] In 2023, Davis was announced as a competitor on the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race AllStars.[24] During Episode Three, she landed in the bottom two alongside Darienne Lake, and the winner of the week's "lip-sync for the win", Jessica Wild (who beat the episode's "lip-sync assassin”, Ra'Jah O'Hara, to Kim Petras’ “Coconuts”), chose Davis to be eliminated, giving her a placement of 10th out of 12 contestants.
Personal life
Popil was born to Ellen, a cosmetics saleswoman, and Edward Paul Popil Sr.,[25][26] a U.S. Marshal,[27] and is married to Steven Levins, who frequently makes out-of-drag public appearances alongside Davis as "Mr. Kasha Davis". He is a stepfather to his two children, Melissa and Jessica, making him one of the few Drag Race contestants with children.[28][29][30] He and Levins frequently collaborate on music and video content.[31][32] He graduated from Marywood University with a BA in theatre before becoming a principal dancer at the Ballet Theatre of Scranton.[33] He has been sober since July 13, 2015.[34]
From 1988 to 1998, until coming out as gay, he was married to a woman.[35]
Filmography
Film
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2008
Mrs. Kasha Davis: The Life of an International Housewife Celebrity
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