Our Lady J dishes on new music, Madonna’s influence & her new show with the ‘Stranger Things’ creators
Future Of Us,” an empowering queer anthem for the community featuring the vocal harmonies of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus—her first major music release in over 10 years.But it’s not like Our Lady J (who uses she/her pronouns, and identifies as gender nonconforming and genderfluid) has been sitting idly by in the past decade.
In fact, she’s been very, very busy.After making a name for herself as a performer and musician—counting big names like Dolly Parton and Sia among her fans—Our Lady J made a move into television writing.
When she joined the team behind Amazon’s Transparent in 2014, she became the first out trans person to be hired into a Hollywood writers’ room, and helped earn the show a Peabody Award.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Since then, she has written and produced for FX’s ball culture drama Pose (earning her second Peabody Award in 2018), written for horror anthology American Horror Stories, and was a key creative force in American Horror Story: NYC, even making her directorial debut with the season’s penultimate episode.And she’s not stopping there! “The Future Of Us” is just the first taste of even more music to come, including a new musical she can’t share more about just yet.
Plus, it was recently announced that she’s co-executive producing and writing for Netflix‘s upcoming The Boroughs, the next series from Strangers Things creators The Duffer Brothers.
