Local glamourpuss and NHS Hero, Sister Brandy Bex, was created in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. With all the craziness in the world and the impact the virus was having on the NHS, many people seemed to be turning to more creative endeavours as a means of coping. I was already regularly performing spoken word poetry and had attended a stand-up comedy course at the end of 2019. Character comedy seemed like the obvious next step, and what could be better than to do it in drag?