Stage and film producer, director and entertainer Phillip R. Ford served most of the 1980’s as “honorary straight man” in the legendary San Francisco drag troupe Sluts-A-Go-Go. He is perhaps best know as the producer and director of Vegas in Space, the celebrated cult film starring the Sluts-A-Go-Go, which created a sensation at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, appeared at festivals world-wide, was broadcast on Showtime and on USA Network’s Up All Night with Rhonda Shear and appeared in features on Entertainment Tonight and E! Entertainment Television.
With Doris Fish, Miss X and “Tippi” he created and appeared onstage in an affectionately remembered string of notorious theatrical nightclub spectacles including Nightclub of the Living Dead, Sluts A-Go-Go Still Alive!, The Happy Hour Show, Box Office Poison and The Miss Solar System Pageant. He directed such stage plays as Phillip R. Ford’s Dolls (1993’s sensational send-up of Valley of the Dolls starring Connie Champage for which he made eight short films), and at Theater Rhinoceros a remarkably dramatic Bad Seed (1987) and the vivid one-woman tribute, Simply Stunning – The Doris Fish Story (2002) featuring Arturo Galster. As an actor he has appeared in San Francisco in the title role in Behind the Candelabra – My Life with Liberace, onstage at the Empire Plus Room in TenderLoins, sang using his own voice as Mrs. Miller in The Sick and Twisted Players’ The Cool Ones and acted in the universally reviled motion picture Virtue (1999).
His first short film, Rollercoaster to Hell, was featured on KTVU’s Creature Features in 1982, and he has served as a Guest Lecturer in “Contemporary Cinema” at his alma mater, San Francisco State University.