Biography
Fenton Bailey is a British-born director, producer and screenwriter. He co-founded the production company World of Wonder with Randy Barbato after they met while attending the Graduate Film Program at New York University. Bailey read English at Oxford and was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1960.
With Barbato he has directed and produced numerous documentaries and television projects, including Party Monster (2003), Inside Deep Throat (2005), Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010) and Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016). Bailey is a co-founder and long-term producer of the reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race. He also produced the 2026 film Stop! That! Train!.
