Onya Nurve is the stage name of Justin Woody,an American drag performer competing on the upcoming seventeenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race (2025).
Before Drag Race, Onya Nurve was named Cleveland's best drag performer in the Cleveland Scene's 2023 Best of Cleveland issue and won the title of Mx. Zephyr in the first Zephyr Drag Takeover competition in Kent a year prior. Onya Nurve is the inaugural ArtReach fellow for Haus of Transcendent, a Cleveland-based LGBTQ nonprofit. In 2024, she served as a consultant for the Dobama Theatre's production of AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN. She has described herself as the "Andy Warhol of the drag scene".
Onya Nurve is the stage name of Justin Woody,an American drag performer competing on the upcoming seventeenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race (2025).
Before Drag Race, Onya Nurve was named Cleveland's best drag performer in the Cleveland Scene's 2023 Best of Cleveland issue and won the title of Mx. Zephyr in the first Zephyr Drag Takeover competition in Kent a year prior. Onya Nurve is the inaugural ArtReach fellow for Haus of Transcendent, a Cleveland-based LGBTQ nonprofit. In 2024, she served as a consultant for the Dobama Theatre's production of AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN. She has described herself as the "Andy Warhol of the drag scene".
