The Girl's Biographies

Heklina (Dorothy) gained fame as the creator, promoter, and hostess of the legendary Trannyshack! She has enjoyed success with her outdoor party at El Rio, Daytime Realness. She has been seen on the E! Entertainment Network, NBC’s“Trauma” “The Cho Show”, VH1, “Playing it Straight”, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”, BBC Television’s “Around the World in 80 Raves”, the Scissor Sister’s “Filthy Gorgeous” video, “Get A Clue”, The Boulet Brothers “Dragula”, and as a guest on the Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake shows. In 2011, Heklina introduced Britney Spears for Good Morning America. Theater credits include a starring role in the 2006 Theater Rhino production TROG!, producer and featured actor (in the role of Dorothy Zbornak) in the popular San Francisco Golden Girls plays, and producer and featured actor in Velvet Rage Productions (Sex And The City Live!, Roseanne, Friends Live!). She was voted Community Grand Marshal of the 2004 San Francisco Pride Parade, and was the subject of two documentaries in the 2005 Frameline SF Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. In 2009 she won the Pride Creativity Award for outstanding artistic contribution to the LGBT Community. Listen to her popular podcast, DRAG TIME WITH HEKLINA. She is proud to have been a part of a new chapter in SF nightlife, as co- owner of Oasis, and the host of Mother, her weekly drag show which ran for 5 years.

Matthew Martin (Blanche), a native San Franciscan, has been conjuring The Stars of the Silver Screen for many years on stage and screen. He recently portrayed Joan Crawford onstage in Michael Phillis’ production of The Hand That Rocks the Crawford at Oasis. Matthew was featured as Gigi the Cat, in Pixar’s short film Out and as the nefarious Dixie Stampede in Darcy Drollinger’s stage and film versions of Shit and Champagne. He also starred as Bette Davis in the film parodies Hush Up, Sweet Charlotte and Baby Jane?. An actor, singer, dancer, director, choreographer and man of many faces and voices, Matthew has also incarnated Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Ann Miller, Jane Russell, Susan Hayward, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, Mitzi Gaynor and many other classic stars in Marc Huestis’ productions at the Castro Theater. As Blanche Devereaux, he has loved working with his good friends in The Golden Girls since 2007.

D'Arcy Drollinger (Rose) is the owner and Artistic Director of OASIS, San Francisco’s internationally acclaimed nightclub / cabaret. Voted Best of the Bay in multiple categories including: Best Nightclub, Best Drag Show & Best Cabaret Venue

Drollinger is an actor, writer, director, choreographer and producer. His first feature film, Shit and Champagne, will be debuting in 2021, in which Drollinger, wrote, directed and starred. D'Arcy is the creator and host of the hit satirical news series “Hot Trash”. Other works include: Bitch Slap, Disastrous, The Temple of Poon, Mr. Irresistible, Project: Lohan, Scalpel!, The Possession of Mrs. Jones, and Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls. Other credits include: The Producers (first Broadway production), Hairspray the Musical (first Broadway production), and VH1’s Divas 2000 featuring RuPaul. Drollinger continues to adapt, direct and co-star in the long-running hit drag parodies Sex and the City LIVE! and Golden Girls LIVE!: The Christmas Episodes. D'Arcy is the creator of the dance-fitness-wellness brand, Sexitude.

Holotta Tymes (Sophia) has had a career that has spanned 30 years. Including being a professional female impersonator from the cast of the world famous Finocchio's and Sunday's A Drag at the Starlight Room, as well as portraying Sophia Petrillo in Golden Girls Live. She is also now an owner of Club 1220, a 45 year old gay bar in Walnut Creek, California. Holotta has also been a rider in the AIDS/LifeCycle for the last 8 years, helping raise money for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. 

 Holotta has worked across the country in some of the most illustrious drag shows and enjoys entertaining the masses. As a child actor, who is a comedian at heart, Holotta has loved entertaining audiences with her quick wit, celebrity impersonations, live vocals and dazzling wardrobe. No matter where she is performing, she leaves the audience laughing and smiling ear to ear.

What the Critics Are Saying About - The Golden Girls

“Can’t go wrong with these Golden Girls” - The Examiner

“…Campy in the extreme…” -The San Francisco Chronicle

“A snazzy quartet of the Bay Areas finest drag queens puts the icing…on the Hostess Cupcake.”- SF Bay Guardian

“Drag dignitaries Heklina, Cookie Dough, Matthew Martin and Pollo Del Mar bring it diva style.” - SF Weekly

“These gals have the characters dead on…Sure to make you jolly.” - Gay.com

“All four of the main actors (plus a few others) play their parts superbly and capture the essence of that classic TV sitcom.” - The San Francisco Bay Times

“Local drag sensations will take [The Golden Girls] to new heights.” - The Onion