WHO IS DIANA LONE?

Meet SLC’s Most Divorced Drag Queen™

Published by: Diana Lone
Published date: August 14, 2026
Last updated: August 14, 2026
Read time: 7 minutes

Diana Lone is a Salt Lake City drag queen, performer, host and DIY artist known for handmade looks, theatrical performances, dark comedy and an increasingly questionable commitment to the bit.

She’s also SLC’s Most Divorced Drag Queen™.

How many times has she actually been divorced?

That feels unnecessarily personal.

What matters is that Diana Lone has been performing drag in Utah since 2019, has been a resident performer at Why Kiki in downtown Salt Lake City since 2021, has opened for Chappell Roan, performed everywhere from Utah nightlife to Edison House, and somehow turned a stupid joke about dying alone into an entire drag career.

So, who exactly is Diana Lone?

Unfortunately, there’s a story.

BEFORE DIANA, THERE WAS A WEIRD KID WITH CARDBOARD

Long before the wigs, padding and rhinestones, Diana was already making things.

As a kid, scraps of cardboard could become whatever she decided they needed to become. There wasn't necessarily a reason for it. There rarely is.

The important thing was making something.

That instinct never went away.

Neither did performing.

Diana started appearing onstage around eight years old. During a local production of Oklahoma!, she managed to earn her first dance solo after demonstrating choreography from High School Musical's “Bop to the Top.”

Because apparently the road to becoming a Utah drag queen begins with Oklahoma! and Sharpay Evans.

Diana continued acting throughout childhood. At 16, she was accepted into an advanced acting class.

Then she came out.

Her relationship with performance—and with her family—changed dramatically afterward. The creative life she'd been building since childhood suddenly stopped.

Diana eventually found herself looking for another direction.

Naturally, she joined the Army.

No, really.

FROM UTAH TO POLAND

Diana has described enlisting in the U.S. Army as being connected, at least partly, to the expectations surrounding the world in which she grew up.

A traditional LDS mission wasn't going to happen. Neither was the conventional future she'd once been presented with.

Military service offered another way to prove herself.

Her six-year military contract eventually took her to Poland, where she was deployed from 2018 into 2019.

And that's where something extremely important happened.

Diana discovered drag.

It started with UNHhhh, the gloriously unhinged internet series starring Trixie Mattel and Katya. That led to RuPaul's Drag Race, The Boulet Brothers' Dragula and an increasingly serious fascination with the craft.

Soon Diana wasn't merely watching.

She was designing.

While still overseas, she started sketching imaginary Drag Race runway looks and challenging herself to create concepts around different themes.

Diana Lone didn't exist yet.

But somebody was already designing her wardrobe.

THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED

In February 2019, while Diana was stationed in Poland, her younger brother, James Seth Davies, died by suicide at 14 years old.

Diana's sister called her at approximately four in the morning Poland time.

Within 24 hours, Diana was back in Utah.

She spent two weeks with her family before returning to Poland. On the flight back, she was left with an enormous question:

What do you do with something like this?

Eventually, Diana decided she wanted to make something from the pain rather than allow it to consume everything around it.

She chose art.

And somewhere inside that decision, Diana Lone was born.

YES, THE NAME IS A JOKE

Say it out loud.

Diana Lone.

Dyin' alone.

There you go.

Congratulations.

But the joke has always carried considerably more weight than it initially lets on.

Growing up queer in Utah, Diana understood the future presented to her as fairly simple: follow the expected path, marry a woman in the Temple and build the prescribed life—or don't, and potentially spend your life alone.

As an adult, that binary started looking increasingly ridiculous.

Her brother's death gave the name another meaning.

Someone can feel completely alone without actually being alone.

So Diana took one of the darkest ideas imaginable and turned it into a drag pun.

Which, frankly, tells you almost everything you need to know about her sense of humor.

Dyin' Alone? Not Today.

BABY DIANA WAS... TRYING

Diana Lone made her drag debut in 2019 at City Limits Tavern in Provo, Utah, performing with the Divine Sister Misters.

Brigitte Kiss was among the first performers to welcome Diana onto the stage and give the new queen somewhere to learn.

And there was plenty to learn.

Diana has been fairly unsentimental about her earliest drag.

Store-bought dress.

Party-store wig.

Whitney Houston.

Press play.

Hope for the best.

Baby Diana could not sew the elaborate costumes Diana makes today.

She couldn't style wigs like Diana does today.

She wasn't constructing props, mixing elaborate tracks, hosting shows and building performances around reveals.

She learned.

That's arguably the most important part of her career.

SHE PUTS THE DIY IN DIANA

Drag requires an absurd number of skills for an art form that can look effortless from the audience.

A working drag performer may need to understand makeup, wigs, sewing, styling, padding, dancing, lip-syncing, music editing, comedy, hosting and crowd work.

Diana decided this apparently wasn't enough work.

So she started building things too.

Today, much of Diana's drag is designed, sewn, altered or constructed by Diana herself.

She's made costumes.

She's styled wigs.

She's edited performance tracks.

She's constructed reveals.

She's modified props.

For one Halloween performance, Diana created her own dress and matching reveal coat, styled a Bride of Frankenstein wig, modified a coffin she could emerge from onstage, mixed the track and then performed the number.

Because purchasing a dress and lip-syncing would apparently have left too much free time.

It's why one of the simplest descriptions of her drag also happens to be one of the best:

She puts the DIY in DIANA.

SALT LAKE CITY GETS DIANA LONE

After beginning in Provo, Diana migrated north into the Salt Lake City drag scene.

In summer 2021, she became a resident performer at Why Kiki in downtown Salt Lake City.

The residency gave Diana something every developing artist needs:

Reps.

Week after week.

Different themes. Different crowds. Different looks. Different numbers.

By the end of 2021, Diana was appearing regularly at Why Kiki shows and drag brunches. Local media began documenting her performances, and the queen who had started with a Target dress was becoming a recognizable part of Utah drag.

The opportunities expanded.

Diana performed at Edison House.

She competed in Why Kiki's Lip Sync Battles, tying for first place with Rosa Rica.

She co-hosted the venue's inaugural Miss and Mx Why Kiki pageants.

And in 2023, Diana opened for Chappell Roan at The Depot in Salt Lake City.

Casual.

WHAT DOES A DIANA LONE PERFORMANCE ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE?

That depends.

Diana gets bored.

This is both a personality trait and a creative strategy.

Her drag can move between glamour, comedy, horror, fashion, character work and complete stupidity without asking permission first.

One performance might involve an elaborate handmade costume.

Another might involve blood.

Another might involve a coffin.

Sometimes all three seem like perfectly reasonable options.

One of Diana's more revealing performance concepts began with Tim McGraw's “Live Like You Were Dying.”

The lyric reaches skydiving.

Something begins falling.

Splat.

The performance subsequently collides with “It's Raining Men,” Scary Movie and a bloodied costume reveal.

Subtle?

No.

Memorable?

That's the point.

Diana isn't particularly interested in repeating the same successful number indefinitely. She has repeatedly described wanting to improve and one-up what she did previously.

Her biggest competition, as she has put it, is herself.

Which is unfortunate.

That bitch is exhausting.

GLAMOUR WITH A BODY COUNT

There's an interesting contradiction running through Diana's aesthetic.

She likes beautiful things.

She also likes ruining them.

Glamour can become gore.

A polished costume can conceal a ridiculous reveal.

Something beautiful can become unsettling.

Something painful can become funny.

That's where the camp works.

Diana isn't simply a comedy queen, horror queen, glamour queen or fashion queen.

She's much more interested in stealing from all of them.

The throughline isn't one particular makeup style or silhouette.

It's the idea.

And preferably an idea Diana hasn't already done.

DRAG USED TO BE MEDICINE

Diana has been unusually candid about the fact that drag originally helped her process an extremely difficult period of her life.

But something important changed as the years passed.

The art stopped existing primarily as therapy.

Diana once described the distinction this way: drag had initially been healing, but eventually it became less like medicine and more like a meal.

Something necessary.

Something sustaining.

A job.

A craft.

A life.

That's an important distinction because Diana Lone's story isn't supposed to end with tragedy.

Tragedy helped create the circumstances in which Diana emerged.

Craft is what kept her alive as an artist.

UTAH DRAG, ON A BIGGER STAGE

Diana's ambitions have never stopped at becoming locally recognizable.

She wants Utah drag to be seen.

And yes, there's one particular stage she has her eye on.

RuPaul's Drag Race.

Diana has publicly said she wants to see someone from Utah make it onto the show and put the state's drag scene on the national map.

She's also made her preferred candidate fairly clear.

Her.

Naturally.

In the meantime, Diana's place within Utah drag continues to grow.

In 2024, SLUG Magazine profiled her extensively as part of its Bold & Beautiful series.

In 2026, KRCL's Asha Pruitt spent a day following Diana as she prepared to perform at Why Kiki. The resulting public-radio feature, Wrapped in Cellophane: Becoming Diana Lone, began with an Elmer's glue stick and ended with a pile of guts.

Again:

Diana Lone.

The story subsequently aired regionally through Regional Roundup, which characterized Diana's work as a combination of creativity, artistry and resilience.

Turns out the weird kid making things out of cardboard was onto something.

SO, WHO IS DIANA LONE?

She's a Salt Lake City drag queen.

She's a performer.

She's a host.

She's a costume maker.

She's a wig stylist.

She's a prop builder.

She's a veteran.

She's an artist.

She's a woman who has never met an uncomplicated concept she couldn't make significantly more difficult for herself.

And after years of building Diana one wig, dress, joke, reveal and deeply unnecessary prop at a time, she's still trying to make the next version better than the last.

Because Diana Lone isn't really about dying alone.

It's about taking whatever you've been handed—beautiful, ugly or completely fucked—and making something out of it.

Preferably something with rhinestones.

Dyin' Alone?

Not today.

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Diana Lone is a Salt Lake City drag queen, Utah drag performer, event host and DIY artist available for drag shows, nightlife, private events, Pride celebrations, festivals, corporate events and select travel bookings.

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She puts the DIY in DIANA.

Dyin' Alone? Not Today.