By Day, He’s a Recruiter at LVMH. At Night, He Portrays Anna Wintour.

In his primary job, Ryan Raftery works within the New York workplaces of LVMH, doing expertise recruitment.

In his second, he croons and twerks at Joe’s Pub, the Public Theater’s downtown nightspot, whereas starring in three totally different musicals about three well-known girls: Anna Wintour, the longtime editor of Vogue; Kris Jenner, the Machiavellian matriarch of the world’s greatest identified actuality present clan; and Martha Stewart, a home diva identified each for her popovers and her 2004-5 jail stint.

Name it “Torch Track Trilogy, Media Divas Version.”

“I’m like Persephone,” Mr. Raftery stated on a current night after a efficiency as Ms. Wintour. “A few times a yr, I get to come back up from the deep and be a star.”

Onstage, he wore stiletto boots, an emerald inexperienced gown purchased on Amazon for $39, and a tan, belted Alberta Ferretti coat. Later, seated in his dressing room, he wore a button-down shirt from Scotch & Soda, denims and a baseball cap.

Pumas have been on his ft. In his hand was his chosen cocktail, vodka with orange juice and a splash of cranberry.

In keeping with Mr. Raftery, the frequent denominator amongst his topics is a relentless want for relevance.

He referred to a favourite quote from Carrie Fisher: “Celeb is simply obscurity biding its time.” “These three girls have very totally different concepts about what relevancy means, however it’s integral to all of their lives,” he added.

The songs within the three exhibits, which run by way of Thursday, use present pop hits, with lyrics rewritten by Mr. Raftery. The plotlines are phantasmagorical however draw inspiration from the topics’ biographies.

For instance, in “Ryan Raftery Is the Most Highly effective Lady in Trend,” the present about Ms. Wintour, he performs “Drunk at Vogue,” a takeoff of Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love.”

Granted, Mr. Raftery has by no means heard that Ms. Wintour drinks a lot of something at Vogue moreover Starbucks, which, sipped from a Venti cup and in her palms more often than not, has turn into its personal accent. (Mr. Raftery makes use of one as a prop.)

However by including alcohol to the combo and having Ms. Wintour bounce her booty in her workplace with the door shut, Mr. Raftery creates an emotional wrestle out of Ms. Wintour’s popularity for being controlling and achieves a way of camp theater. (Mid-number, Mr. Raftery pauses the proceedings to ship an admonishment to his piano participant: “Are you carrying white socks with black footwear?”)

Mr. Raftery, 46, grew up in Brooklyn. His father, a firefighter, died from lung most cancers when Mr. Raftery was 12. His mom labored in New York Newsday’s circulation division.

After attending James Madison Excessive College, whose graduates embody Senator Bernie Sanders and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mr. Raftery went to New York College’s Tisch College of the Arts, the place, in 1999, he obtained a bachelor’s diploma in drama.

Afterward, Mr. Raftery acted on tv exhibits akin to “Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit” (he performed an Amish teenager with measles) and “Malcolm within the Center.”

He sang and danced however couldn’t get forged on Broadway. He staged one-man exhibits about himself that have been largely ignored.

Ultimately, Mr. Raftery began writing exhibits about different individuals, the primary of whom was Ms. Wintour.

When the present about her grew to become a success at Joe’s Pub in 2014, he created others, utilizing as inspiration the Bravo govt Andy Cohen, the designer Calvin Klein, the previous first daughter Ivanka Trump, the artist Andy Warhol and, lastly, Ms. Jenner.

By no means thoughts that he had not watched “Protecting Up With the Kardashians.”

“They’re truly not that fascinating,” Mr. Raftery stated.

So he got here up with a gonzo plotline by which Ms. Jenner flies to Laos for fertility therapies, adjustments her thoughts about wanting one other child after which, within the aftermath of the repeal of Roe v. Wade, reinvents herself as an abortion rights activist. (Additionally: Sooner or later, she will get amnesia.)

None of Mr. Raftery’s topics have come to see him carry out, though Ms. Stewart despatched a variety of individuals from her workers, he stated.

Ms. Wintour’s daughter, Bee Schaffer, additionally got here to Joe’s Pub for a viewing, then stopped backstage.

“We took an image,” stated Mr. Raftery.

He has lengthy needed to play Mariah Carey. “However I’m white, and I believe her biraciality makes that inconceivable.”

He would additionally wish to stretch previous the milieu of divas and homosexual males.

“It might be enjoyable to play Roger Ailes, although I’m unsure he’d be a success with my fan base,” he stated. “Why? Who do you suppose I ought to play subsequent?”