In 2023, Dylan Mulvaney promoted Bud Light beer on her Instagram account. She held a personalized can featuring her face, sent to her by the brewer. It wasn’t long before Kid Rock was leveling an assault rifle at stacked cases of the beverage. Bud Light sales tanked, falling by an estimated 17 percent.
The actor began her career in a touring company of “The Book of Mormon.” When COVID brought the curtain down on that and other Broadway productions, she turned to TikTok as her creative outlet.
During March 2022, she began using the platform to document her transition with the title, “Days of Girlhood.” By the end of 2023, she had amassed more than 10 million followers, and in March 2025, Mulvaney’s memoir, “Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer,” was published by Harry N. Abrams (now Abrams Books). In that work, she writes about the Bud Light campaign and the vehement, savage backlash it provoked. She did so in a fun way, however, not adopting the tone of her critics. Some of those critics, according to Mulvaney, were members of the trans community.
Later in 2025, Mulvaney starred in an off-Broadway one-woman show, “The Least Problematic Woman in the World,” staged at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and directed by Tim Jackson, with music by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss.
The 29-year-old actor has etched her name into musical theater. She has appeared in productions of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Legally Blonde,” “Spring Awakening,” and “High School Musical.”
In February of this year, she made her Broadway debut as Anne Boleyn in Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow’s “Six: The Musical” at the Lena Horne Theatre.
The casting of Mulvaney generated backlash from right-wing, anti-trans critics. The production’s official X account was locked to non-followers. According to Mulvaney, however, the experience has greatly overshadowed any criticism.
On April 23, she told her viewers on TikTok, “I’m having the time of my damn life!” She also said, “The trans joy and humor that I bring to that stage every night is enough for me to believe that I deserve to be there.
She did so wearing a t-shirt that reads Tranne Boleyn.