This event is in the past.It took place on April 13, 2026 at Film at Lincoln Center.




John Early's drag performance as Maddie Ralph, a bulimic food influencer, brings Sirkian melodrama to the age of short-form video. This bracingly comic, achingly tender debut screens with a Q&A featuring Early and Kate Berlant.
Sirkian melodrama
drag performance
alt-comedy icons
food influencer satire
Tips
🎭"bracingly comic and wrenchingly tender" (Film at Lincoln Center)
🎬Q&A with John Early & Kate Berlant after screening
🍔inspired by '80s "movies of the week" & Showgirls
Maddie’s Secret
Lincoln Square




John Early's drag performance as Maddie Ralph, a bulimic food influencer, brings Sirkian melodrama to the age of short-form video. This bracingly comic, achingly tender debut screens with a Q&A featuring Early and Kate Berlant.
Sirkian melodrama
drag performance
alt-comedy icons
food influencer satire
Tips
🎭"bracingly comic and wrenchingly tender" (Film at Lincoln Center)
🎬Q&A with John Early & Kate Berlant after screening
🍔inspired by '80s "movies of the week" & Showgirls
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