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Dylan Mulvaney<\/a> came dressed and ready for the rapture.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it was all over TikTok,\u201d says the actress, sipping from an Arnold Palmer at a sidewalk table outside a West Village coffee shop. \u201cApparently, people were supposed to \u2014 the good Christians were supposed to \u2014 be taken to heaven and they said, \u2018Make sure to be dressed the way you want to be raptured.\u2019 I think this felt very pure,\u201d adds Mulvaney, dressed in a white slipdress and matching white sunglasses for the Sept. 23 occasion. \u201cAnd I did get full glam just in case, you know, if this is the last look.\u201d<\/p>\n More from WWD<\/strong><\/p>\n Mulvaney is very tapped into TikTok trends, and for good reason: the social media platform is where the 28-year-old catapulted into the public eye during the pandemic and built her fan base. But her focus this fall is offline and down the block, where she\u2019s staging her one-woman show \u201cThe Least Problematic Woman\u201d at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The show, which opens Tuesday, arrives Off-Broadway after its initial debut at the Fringe Festival at Edinburgh last summer.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s exciting about Fringe is that people don\u2019t come with expectations, because they\u2019re seeing ten shows a day,\u201d says Mulvaney, adding that she hopes to recapture some of that \u201cFringe energy\u201d downtown. \u201cIt\u2019s a much bigger investment to come to the theater here [in New York] and take time out of your day, or after work, to go see a play.\u201d<\/p>\n The show, written by and starring Mulvaney, is inspired by her own childhood and trajectory in the public eye, while tapping into her musical theater training. Although Mulvaney plays 20 different roles \u2014 from a priest to a talk show host \u2014 the through-line character is a version of herself: a young girl coming out as trans and coming-of-age, while navigating her Catholic faith and role in the public eye. The character faces a brand controversy not unlike Mulvaney\u2019s 2023 partnership with Bud Light<\/a>, which went viral and resulted in a conservative backlash against the company.<\/p>\n \u201cSo much of it [the show] is the pursuit of me trying to be unproblematic and trying to live up to the expectations of the Catholic church, and trying to be a palatable version of a transwoman,\u201d Mulvaney says. \u201cAnd realizing that the second I try to please one group of people, then I lose another. And then when I try to please those people, I lose this other group.\u201d<\/p>\n While Mulvaney doesn\u2019t label herself an activist, she realizes the weight of bringing a show exploring identity to the stage in the current moment, when LGBTQIA+ rights and protections are under attack.<\/p>\n \u201cSo much of the world I think is scared to talk about these subjects, and what I\u2019m asking people to do is to laugh about them. I think the best way into healing from trauma is giving permission to laugh with me about it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely not Trans 101. I always approach things from my version of [life], which is very different than probably the typical doll experience.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Mulvaney released her memoir, \u201cPaper Doll: Notes From a Late Bloomer\u201d as a way to talk about \u201cthe things that I couldn\u2019t online,\u201d she says. \u201cOnce BeerGate happened, I felt like I didn\u2019t have anywhere to really share my story in the way that I wanted and on my terms,\u201d she adds. \u201cI wrote that book as a way of being like, I\u2019m an adult. Here\u2019s some of my raunchier stories. Here\u2019s some of the vulnerability and the darker side of me that I hadn\u2019t gotten to show.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Least Problematic Girl in the World\u201d has, for now, turned Mulvaney into a different sort of girl.<\/p>\n \u201c I\u2019m leaning into the West Village girly aesthetic right now,\u201d says Mulvaney, who relocated from Los Angeles to New York<\/a> this summer in anticipation of the show. \u201c I love being able to get pizza at 2 a.m. I love there\u2019s always something to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking of pizza: donning her first costume from the show \u2014 which happens to be a white dress and pair of angel wings, very on-brand for the rapture \u2014 Mulvaney trots across Hudson Street, heads into a local pizza shop, and orders a slice. (And eats it, as her costume designer looks on anxiously.) Later, Mulvaney posts a video of the excursion on social media as promo for her show.<\/p>\n It\u2019s still a few days before previews start, and Mulvaney almost can\u2019t believe the moment is around the corner. Although she\u2019s been \u201csort of disassociating\u201d in the lead-up, Mulvaney has a simple description for the feeling of creating and bringing an original piece of theater to Off-Broadway.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a miracle,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Launch Gallery: Dylan Mulvaney, Star of ‘The Least Problematic Woman in the World’ on Broadway, Around New York With WWD<\/a><\/p>\n Best of WWD<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for WWD’s Newsletter<\/a>. 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