Career
The City of West Hollywood honored him in 2008 with the "Paul J. Starke Warrior Award" for his long-standing charitable work in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome community and his support of Aid Foreign Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Jeffrey Drew’s most notable stage roles were in the last National Tour of the musical Evita (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Directed by Harold Prince and Larry Fuller) and the Office-Broadway production of Blessing in Disguise (writer/director, Larry Pellegrini). In 2011, he became the director and choreographer for the annual, theatrical production Best In Drag Show in Los Angeles, benefiting Aid Foreign Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. He returned in 2012 to direct the spoof, in its 22nd year overall as an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome assistance fundraiser.
He created the stage character, "Lotta Slots," a drag (clothing) diva for fundraising, and has regularly performed in stage benefits as "Lotta" for more than 15 years.
His television show casting credits since 1995 include The OC, Men In Trees, Privileged (television series), Chuck (television series), Dallas (1978 television series) and Human Target (television series). Jeffrey Drew has organized and starred in numerous fundraisers for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome assistance and the recovery community in Los Los Angeles
Most notably, he created the drag character, "Lotta Slots"—a “former Mission Nevada,” in 1997 for the California non-profit Aid Foreign Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome annual benefit, Battle for the Tiara, which was a beauty pageant farce. In 1999, Drew was invited to return in character as the show’s Color Commentator to replace the ailing Alexis Pittman, who created the annual fundraiser, Battle for the Tiara, in 1989.
Following Pittman’s death from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in 1999, the show stopped for two years before returning as the current, celebrity supported Best in Drag Show with the original group of volunteers and Drew as the opening musical star and one of two color commentators.
He performed in these volunteer roles from 2002 to 2010. In 2011, he accepted the position of show director/choreographer. Since 2002, through his key support of the fundraiser Best In Drag Show, he has helped a dedicated group of volunteers raise more than two million dollars collectively for Aid Foreign Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in California.
