1. Sasha Velour is the only child of Mark Steinberg, a scholar of Russian history and professor in the Department of History at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Jane Hedges, who served as editor at Yale University Press and managing editor of the Slavic Review.
Sasha Velour is of Russian Jewish descent on her father's side, and identifies with her father's faith.
Sasha Velour's grandmother emigrated from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic via Manchuria.
Sasha Velour graduated from University Laboratory High School in Champaign-Urbana in 2004.
Sasha Velour moved to New York with her partner John Jacob Lee in 2013.
Sasha Velour created comics and zines that she self-published and sold at conventions.
Sasha Velour created a comic entitled Stonewall, which attempted to tell the story of the Stonewall riots using real and fictional characters.
Sasha Velour's cut paper work was part of the group show "Coney Island Babies, Visual Artists from the Brooklyn Drag Scene" at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division that opened in Manhattan in November 2012.
In March 2017, Sasha Velour designed a long sleeve T-shirt for "Contemporary Drag", a limited-edition fashion line for the New Art Dealers Alliance's in collaboration with Print All Over Me and she performed at the NADA show that month.
Sasha Velour featured as the cover artist for the June 12,2023 issue of The New Yorker.
Sasha Velour started performing in drag while studying at The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.
Sasha Velour met her partner John Jacob Lee in Vermont when he was acting in a production of Annie.
Sasha Velour called producing the show a "milestone" of her drag career and moved to Brooklyn later that year.
Sasha Velour began performing in New York City in early 2014.
Sasha Velour founded Velour, The Drag Magazine, a magazine about drag, alongside partner Johnny in the summer of 2014.
Sasha Velour began producing a monthly drag show, NightGowns, in August 2015, at Bizarre Bushwick.
Sasha Velour auditioned for RuPaul's Drag Races eighth season but was not selected to participate.
Sasha Velour founded The House of Sasha Velour in 2017, a production company that she uses to produce stage, film work and merchandise.
Sasha Velour expanded her drag showcase NightGowns, moving it from Bizarre Bushwick to National Sawdust in April 2017.
In 2018, Sasha Velour partnered with Opening Ceremony to host and direct their New York Fashion Week show.
Sasha Velour selected 40 LGBTQ+ models to walk, creating the first all queer show in New York Fashion Week history.
Sasha Velour impersonated Dietrich in the Snatch Game challenge on season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Sasha Velour had first begun working on the comic years before for her thesis project at the Center for Cartoon Studies; a previous version of the comic was published in 2012 under the name Stonewall.
Sasha Velour has spoken at the Teen Vogue Summit, The Long Conversation at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC and for colleges including Purdue, The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Columbia, Oakland University, and more.
Sasha Velour has appeared on the covers of Wussy Mag, Plastik Magazine, Bricks, GayTimes, and she art-directed her pet Italian Greyhound, Vanya's, cover shoot of Dog Magazine which featured an interview with Velour.
In 2018, Sasha Velour self-produced a short film entitled Pirate Jenny, which included Sasha Velour performing her own translation of the famous The Threepenny Opera song of the same name.
In 2019, Sasha Velour appeared as herself on episodes of the television shows The Bold Type and Broad City.
Sasha Velour adapted her stage show NightGowns into an 8-episode docu-series for the short-form platform Quibi, and it premiered on April 6,2020.
Sasha Velour was executive producer and starred in the show, and produced it with the Documentary Group and music video director Sophie Muller.
In March 2021, Sasha Velour starred in Angelica Negron's The Island We Made, a short art-opera film commissioned by Opera Philadelphia.
In May 2019, Sasha Velour performed the show at The Theatre At The Ace in Los Angeles, and on August 9 and 10,2019, she performed two sold-out shows at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London.
Sasha Velour was featured on the June 2023 cover of the ELLE View, or digital, edition of ELLE Brasil.