SUNY Adirondack students join ADK Slay lineup

QUEENSBURY, New York (March 31, 2026) — Kings will dance among queens in ADK Slay, SUNY Adirondack’s annual drag extravaganza.

Students Cora Brown, Kelly Carter, Lindsey Kurz and Arabella Tracey will perform in drag in this year’s show, alongside professional queens Lexxi Pro, Matti Cation, Lady Seanzia and Piper Fixation.

ADK Slay will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, April 10, in the college’s on-campus theater in Adirondack Hall, 640 Bay Road. A meet-and-greet event will start at 6:45 p.m.

“Being able to become a different person is just kind of freeing,” said Kurz, who performed in last year’s Slay event. “Changing your outfit is a bit like taking off your skin and putting on a different persona, which helps with self-expression and lets you explore a new side of yourself.”

Kurz will perform “Breaking Dishes” by Rhianna, dressed as Alex Stardust, a persona inspired in part by David Bowie and classic ’80s rock.

The Greenwich native, a Media Arts major with plans to be a fashion photographer, has performed in the college Theater Club’s “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Heathers the Musical” and is handling costuming for the group’s upcoming production of “The Addams Family: The Musical Comedy.”

“I’ve always loved theater, it’s always been part of my life,” Kurz said. 

Brown, their classmate and fellow Theater Club member, has also been involved with theater for years. In the fall, the Queensbury native starred as Frank-N-Furter in “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” but this will be their first time performing in drag. “That’s very much in the realm of drag, in costume and makeup,” Brown said. 

She’s still working on details of her performance, but Brown will perform as Blackheart,  inspired by “The Bride,” a newly released American Gothic romance written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, influenced by Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and the 1935 film “Bride of Frankenstein.”

“The story talks about identity, self-actualization and what it means to exist as who you are,” Brown said. “That’s a big aspect of drag and theater itself: defining who you are through your craft.”

Tickets to ADK Slay are $20 general admission; $10 for SUNY Adirondack faculty and staff; and free for SUNY Adirondack students. Tickets are available between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Student Life office in the college’s Student Center, 640 Bay Road, or online.