Deedee LaCraze
Jarred is also a drag performer and makeup artist known as Deedee LaCraze. Drag gives you the power to showcase every part of your personality that you might not otherwise access on an everyday basis. Being able to play with gender and identity in the safe containment of art is such an empowering thing.
Before moving to Vancouver, Deedee produced and hosted her own series of sold out shows and was a regular performer in Kelowna, BC, illuminating a path for more queer art in the city. She was runner up in Kelowna's Next Drag Superstar 2016. Having taken a hiatus to go to school, Deedee re-entered the Vancouver scene with a bang, performing around the city and teaching Drag Camp for kids before taking on Vancouver's Next Drag Superstar 2023, starring in a film alongside Drag Race superstar Kendall Gender, and earning the title of Muse of Camp from the Dogwood Monarchy Society and Vancouver's Emperor and Emprex 51.
You can catch Deedee in the film STAY which premiered at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival in March 2023, and is now touring Festivals in the United States and Europe.
For booking, please e-mail jarredmeek@icloud.com, or contact on instagram at @deedeelacraze!
While performing in drag, Deedee uses she/they pronouns, and while out of drag Jarred uses he/him.
In August 2022, Jarred, as Deedee, was invited to help develop the first ever DRAG CAMP at Carousel Theatre for Young People. With some of Vancouver's top performers, including the winner of Call Me Mother Season 1, Toddy, we got to lead an intensive for children ages 7-17 and teach them the magic of drag. It was powerful to be a part of such important change. They are excited to be back for another summer of Drag Camp in 2023!
