COLLABORATOR

As a mover and maker, leader and supporter, I gravitate to narratives and spaces committed to the embodiment of queer joy and new shapes for liberated lives.

THE DRAG

by Mae West

    • Director: Rebecca Wright

    • Playwrights: Mae West, Thomas Choinacky and AZ Espinoza (adaptors)

    • Creative Team: Chris Haig (set design), Krista Smith (lighting), Adiah Hicks (sound), Ilyicia Buffaloe (costume design), Shane Dreyer (props), Paule Turner, Duchess (choreography), Randi Alexis Hickey (stage manager) Bradley Visual Co. (photos)

    • Cast: Eli Lynn, V Sterling, Doug Greene, Jameka Monet Wilson, Anna Faye Lieberman, Donovan Lockett, Pax Ressler, Max Vasapoli, Dallas Austin Jammer, Lexi Thammavong, Chris Davis

  • In an adaptation that embraces intervention and interruption, an ensemble of queer performers gather to embody Mae West’s 1927 controversial classic The Drag, never leaving contemporary collective queer sensibilities and consciousness behind. A communing with the queer past in the queer present to usher in a queer future, complete with drag balls, ingenues, the Time Warp, downward facing dogs, and other sexual inversions.

  • Barrymore Nominated, Philadelphia Award for Social Insight

FOREHAND DOWN THE LINE

    • Creative Team: Thomas Choinacky (choreography and set design), Michael Lambui (lighting), Adriano Shaplin (sound), Leigh Paradise (costumes), Kel Fleming (stage manager), Isa Payne (project assistant)

    • Cast: Mal Cherifi, AZ Espinoza, Eliana Fabiyi, Shizu Homma, Justin Jain

  • Refocus your attention to just beyond the baseline. Here lies the gestural interplay of tennis’ ball people. Performing hidden, rigorous labor in professional tennis these speedsters are the support system to the efficiency of matches. This monumental dance calls attention to the subtle and off-kilter choreography of tennis’ unannounced workers. Highlighting their agility, absurdity, and queer movement this visual fantasia will shift your idea of “champion.”

    Lead artist Thomas Choinacky

  • More info: ThomasChoinacky.com

DREAM SWEET, ROUGH MAN

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    • Team: Lu Donovan and Micah Lockman-Fine (Lead Artists and Installation), mik Phillips, Tor Breen, cedar bechar, Athena O Wasborn, AZ Espinoza, Aaron Michael Foreman, Severin Blake, George Dorsey III, Noah Sylvia (photos by Trinity).

  • By expanding traditional, heteropatriarchal masculinity into a practice of gentleness and connection, Dream Sweet, Rough Man uplifts possibilities for feminist queer masculinities to take root in men’s bodies and move through the world. We invite the high school hunk, 80s rockstars, frequenters of gay clubs and coffee shops, memories of trans boyhood, and ragged denim desires to play together, building options through which embodied manhood can thrive. Using dance and fashion to disrupt common masculine narratives, this show breaks down barriers which prevent masculine connection, moving towards more intimate, authentic and integrated manhoods.

    Lead Artists Lu Donovan and Micah Lockman-Fine

  • For full cast and creative: Dream Sweet Rough Man Cannonball Festival