Season 1-11

Queer Shorts Festival
featuring
Another Kin by Dray Bowens-Rubin and Zara Barryte
Polycule by Dray Bowens-Rubin and Zara Barryte
Is This a Date? by Weslee Innes
Message Received by Weslee Innes
Crafty by Paul Rudnick
Miles to Go by Mars Wilson
In Another Kin, a starship pilot searches the universe for a being like them. In Polycule, a carbon atom wants to bond with more than the average two oxygen molecules. In Is This a Date?, a young lesbian gets help from her best friend to answer that age old question. In Message Received, that same friend awkwardly tries to establish a relationship. In Crafty, a cake decorator opines about the state of the world. In Miles to Go, a transgender male college student is surrounded by less than helpful roommates.

Merry, Queer, and Bright
by Brooke Lindley
Misanthropic actor Reese thought they were lucky when they found a direct flight to Kalamazoo from LA to attend the Christmas day grand opening of their friend's new queer bar. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans. Cancelled, delayed, and rerouted, Reese gets caught in a transportation whirlwind just trying to make it home for the holidays. Things get worse when they meet the forever cheerful Julien, a baker from Denver trying to make it home to compete in her grandma's annual cookie competition. Twisting and turning their way through planes, trains, and automobiles, the race to make it to Kalamazoo before Christmas is on. A holiday romantic comedy that has all your favorite Hallmark tropes, Merry, Queer, and Bright is just what everyone needs to warm your heart, revel in mirth, and feel a little closer to your found family this season.

The Lysistrata Project
by Sarah Ault
Manic Pixie, Gold Star, Pick-A-Side, and Easy A are four college roommates facing their hardest test yet. In response to men being just the WORST, they have sworn off sex for good, or at least until the local frat boys can get their act together. However, Manic Pixie is already set to go on a date, Gold Star and Pick-A-Side are still honeymooning, and Easy A is certainly no expert at keeping it in her pants. I guess you could say it’s like Lysistrata, with a lot less… swords.

Doctor Voynich and Her Children
A Prediction by Leanna Keyes
Doctor Rue Voynich, a transgender woman, and her apprentice Fade travel the American Heartland dispensing herbal medications. Covertly, they perform abortions, which have been illegal since the days of the first woman president, Ivanka Trump. Fade tries to help local youth Hannah complete her abortion, using knowledge from an ancient manuscript, before her mother and the sheriff can nail them for the “attempted murder of an unborn person.”

12 Hour Playfest
by various playwrights
12 Hour Playfest is a fun theatre day for all involved. At 8am the playwrights arrive and are given a prompt, prop, and the number of actors in their scene and start writing. At 12p the actors and directors arrive, meet with the playwright, and run off to reserved space to rehearse. At some point in the day, they will be given one hour in the performance space to test tech. At 8p the curtain comes up and we present to our audience the plays that 12 hours ago didn’t exist.

Let's Have a Satanic Orgy!
featuring the Satanic Doo-Wop of Twin Temple, Devised and Directed by Connar Klock
Featuring the music of Twin Temple, Let’s Have A Satanic Orgy! is a night of vignettes centered around sexual liberation and total freedom from expected and often Puritan norms. The music of Twin Temple is based in the Satanic Temple’s vision of a world free from the dogma of Christianity and accentuates our bodily liberty. With so much vitriol against our community comparing us to devil worship, telling us we’re going to hell, Twin Temple replies, “Yes, and?” while strutting away laughing…and does so with beautiful vocals and electric 50s-60s blues and rock and roll! A true bacchanal, this show is carefully placed in October, near the Satanic Temple’s high holiday of Halloween, which the Satanic Temple website describes as a “holiday to celebrate indulgence and embrace the darkness and its aesthetic,” this show can be taken in by folks committed and campy alike culminating in a fun night for all. For audiences 18+

Taproot: A Play on Justice & Judgment
by v.f. thompson
Set over the course of an informal meeting of an activist organization to discuss allegations against one of their members, Taproot is a full length one act play with an intermission that chronicles the tribulations and breakdown of an activist group as they struggle to process something that feels impossible to wrangle. As they argue about the proper response, tensions grow and unspoken feelings burst to the surface. By the end of the night, there are less answers than how they began, and the shape of each character's world is different.

A Queer Crescendo
produced by Syd West
A Queer Crescendo brings together several local queer composers for a night of music and revelry as we put together a classical concert featuring new works.

Turnover: A New Leaf
by David Quang Pham
A plant-based musical comedy about how two neighboring families, rooted in prejudice, overturn their views when their queer kids start rooting for each other. Set in the fictional nation of Woodwork that is inhabited by photogenic plants, Malus Crabapple is the FigLeaf nightclub owner who sees transplants as invasive. Meanwhile, Rau Ram is the Salontro salon owner who is trying to earn her Green Card. She teaches her natural-born citizen son Parsley that queerness is unnatural. When a free-spirited pear named Pyrus visits town to spend the summer with their unty Malus, Parsley befriends Pyrus and starts showing his queer self (his mother’s transgression). TURNOVER plants coming-of-age themes of family dynamics, immigrant assimilation, performative activism, body image, and the duality between nature versus nurture.

BIcycle
by Brooke Lindley
Belle Linden is a writer who mainly writes fiction but she decided to take the jump and write about her experiences being bisexual and biracial. Although she feels like it should be easy because it is her life, she is coming to terms how it feels to not be enough or always wanting more.

Shedding the Antlers
by Eric Braman
Dani is experiencing an identity crisis that weighs heavy on their mind, body, and spirit when White, a white-tail deer, appears in their home. White pulls Dani into a warehouse of memories where Dani explores the intricacies of their identity and fights for the confidence to become their true self. Shedding the Antlers is a Queer theatrical exploration of memory, remembrance, and the moments that drive us toward liberation.

MisCast Cabaret
Join us for our MisCast Cabaret event where performers sing and act individual scenes from performances, but with a twist. It's a playful and often humorous showcase that challenges traditional casting norms and allows performers to explore characters they wouldn't normally portray.

The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
by Jo Clifford
What would happen if Jesus did come back to earth, in the present day, as a trans woman? Join Queen Jesus for a stunning one woman play, a revolutionary queer ritual for these life changing times. The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, first performed in 2009, has been translated into 7 languages and performed in 9 countries worldwide.
This tour is the first time this has been performed in the US.

The Episodic Life
by RJ Soule

Say Cheesecake
by Allison Fradkin

Man and Moon
by Siena Ledger

Dirt, Ash, Dead Tree
by Jarrett McCreary

Before the Shooting
by Denise Miller

Dance Again
by Emilio Rodriguez
THEY WILL SAY
by ALOK
PlaywrightNow
by various playwrights

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche
by Andrew Hobgood and Evan Linder

eLLe: This Lane Open
by Shawntai Brown
TK New Playfest: Miss Julie
by Amber Palmer

eLLe: New Position
by Shawntai Brown

