Party: PANDORA BOXX

Party: PANDORA BOXX

Pandora Boxx (born Michael Steck; May 2, 1972 in Jamestown, New York) is an American drag queen, comedian and reality television personality from Rochester, New York. He is best known as a contestant from the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race. and RuPaul's All Star Drag Race.
Steck was inspired to do drag after watching the drag queen Darienne Lake perform in an outdoor festival in Rochester, New York. For his first show at the gay bar Infinity in Rochester, Steck choose his drag name as a play on words of Pandora's box, an artifact found in Greek mythology.

Boxx auditioned two times before becoming a contestant on the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Highlights of his performance on Drag Race include an impersonation of Carol Channing on Snatch Game (a Match Game parody challenge). Performing well in the show's challenges, his failure to win one resulted in RuPaul calling him "the Susan Lucci of this competition." He was eliminated in the eighth episode, "Golden Gals. After his elimination, Entertainment Weekly called him their pick for "America's Next Drag Superstar. He was later voted the Miss Congeniality of his season.

After his elimination, Boxx appeared on the three seasons of Drag Race spin-off series RuPaul's Drag U. He also appeared in a television commercial for Absolut Vodka that aired during the third season of Drag Race dressed as a Bloody Mary.

In 2011, he hosted an episode of Logo's One Night Stand Up, a comedy special filmed live in the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. Other performers included Bianca Del Rio, Hedda Lettuce, and Kelly Mantle. Later that year, Boxx appeared in an Entertainment Weekly photo spread along with Mimi Imfurst that featured Melissa McCarthy channeling Divine.On September 27, 2011, Boxx released his first single "Cooter!"

Boxx and Sherry Vine released "Give Me All Your Muff," a parody of "Give Me All Your Luvin'" by Madonna in 2012. In addition, Boxx released several singles in 2012: a cover version of Samantha Fox's hit song "I Wanna Have Some Fun" and the original song "Nice Car! (Shame About Your Penis)."

In 2012, Sharon Needles won the online voting to appear on RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race, but revealed that he was not going to participate due to the fact he was the reigning winner of the fourth season. Needles also confirmed that Boxx was his replacement and would appear on the show. Boxx, along with team partner Mimi Imfurst, formed Team Mandora, were the first two contestants eliminated on the All Stars.

In 2013 he began hosting Drag Race recaps for NewNowNext on Logo, called "Drag Center". He also released a single with Adam Barta called "You Seemed Shady to Me", which hit Top 50 on the iTunes comedy single charts.

Other work

Besides appearing on Drag Race, he wrote, directed, produced, and appeared in Mrs. Kasha Davis: The Life of an International Housewife Celebrity starring fellow drag performer from Rochester's Tilt nightclub, Mrs. Kasha Davis. Boxx also wrote a play, The Lipstick Massacre, directed by David Henderson and starring himself and actress Kasha Davis. The plot follows a commercial actress, Daphne Von Hausenpfeffer, whose career is fading. When other actresses up for the same roles start disappearing, it seems Daphne may be the prime suspect. It was described as "a new murder mystery/B-horror movie/comedy play." The Lipstick Massacre has played at Rochester's Multi-use Community Cultural Center,and the Geva Theatre.

He is usually credited as "Michael Steck" for creative roles.