Rogue Theatrics, Los Angels, CA (formerly of Columbus, Ohio)
Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?
Awkward Moment Productions/Amy Salloway
Minneapolis, MN
Amy's having one of those LIVES. Her uterus is
rebelling, her perfect younger sister is destined for
stardom, her boyfriend won't give her a kidney, and the
body-image workshop she signs up for becomes a
surreal lesbian adventure. Is this going to be another
night spent commiserating with pot pies in the frozen
foods aisle? Or somewhere, somehow, can a single,
spherical girl figure out where she fits? This hit touring
show from Minnesota won Lavender Magazine's vote for
Best Solo Performance of 2003 and Critic's Pick of the
2005 Cincinnati Fringe. "Salloway is smart, funny,
observant and honest, with a mind that zooms into orbit
around a yet-to-be-discovered planet. -- The Cincinnati
Enquirer.."
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 14 at 9 pm
Friday, September 15 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 8 pm
Monday Night In Westerbork (World Premiere)
S. Bear Bergman, Northampton, MA
(2002 & 2004 Festival Award Winner)
A difficult, surprisingly funny, often complex and
ultimately joyous piece set along the plotlines of the
theater group at concentration camp Westerbork.
Monday Night In Westerbork finds Bergman solidly in hir
storytelling element, investigating points of intersection
and impact among identity, art, persecution and
resistance. Not your traditional Holocaust narrative, but
an educating, interrogating, celebrating piece of
theater including everything from a song-and-dance
number to a prayer for the dead. (please note: this piece
is appropriate for people thirteen years of age and
older.)
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 14 at 8 pm
Friday, September 15 at 7 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 4 pm
Thanks for the Scabies, Jerkface!
Dan Bernitt, Lexington, KY
Meet Dan. He met his boyfriend at an audition for a
reality TV show, his first roommate in college turns out to
be homophobic, and the entire check out aisle at Wal-
Mart knows he has scabies. After moving out of his
parents house, will this gay kid from Kentucky grow to
find a home?
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Friday, September 8 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, September 9 at 2 pm
Sunday, September 10 at 4pm
BAIT
David Sisco, New York City, NY
(2002 Festival Award Winner)
Best friends Justin and Charlie attend a "Gay Bait"
singles event hoping to find their match. As the evening
unfolds, however, they realize the dating pool is very
shallow. Two actors inhabit 30 desperate men in a
series of hilarious encounters that puncture stereotypes
and tip sacred cows.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Thursday, September 14 at 9 pm
Friday, September 15 at 7 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 7pm
Wonder Woman: The Musical
Elizabeth Whitney, Boston, MA
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
The story of Princess Diana, better known as 1970’s
liberal feminist superheroine, Wonder Woman. In this
campy cabaret, Diana chats with her audience during
the last leg of her Magic Lasso Comeback Tour. She
generously shares her fan letters and sings unique
karaoke covers of standards, ranging from I’m Wonder
Woman, Hear Me Roar to Stand By Your Butch.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Thursday, September 14 at 7 pm
Friday, September 15 at 9 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 8 pm
Icons: The Gay and Lesbian History of the
World, Volume 3
Jade Esteban Estrada, Brooklyn, NY
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
Solo performer, Jade Esteban Estrada portrays several
icons of the gay community in this follow up the 2004
festival favorite.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Monday, September 11 at 9pm
Tuesday, September 12 at 8:30 pm
None of the Above
Many Horses Productions/Jennifer Lanier,
Pahoa, Hawaii
Guided by her “shrink-o-therapist” and sage Aunt Vera,
you will hear this African American-Indian tail-end baby-
boomer openly and easily talk about things that most
folks only whisper about. Who says existential crisis can’t
be fun?
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 14 at 6:30 pm
Friday, September 15 at 9:30 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 2 pm
Butches Stand Up Tour
Journey Light, Anaheim, CA
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
Stand-up comedy that is brilliant, raw, and quick paced.
Journey has audiences laughing on topics about
butches and strap-ons, crazy straight women, and living
during the Brokeback Mountain Era. A night you won't
forget.
Club Diversity
Saturday, September 9 at 8 pm
Sunday, September 10 at 7pm
Monday, September 11 at 8 pm
Stripped and Teased: Scandalous Stories and
Subversive Subplots
Kimberly Dark, Pahoa, Hawaii
More like “stand-up story-telling” than a traditional
theater show, the show is one part performance poetry,
one part story-telling, one part interactive and all parts
political. And yes, there are stories about strippers –
strippers and lesbians, strippers and waitresses,
strippers and soldiers, and an evening of intimate
theater.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Saturday, September 9 at 3:30 pm
Sunday, September 10 at 8 pm
Monday, September 11 at 7:30 pm
The Casual Sex Diary
Matthew Crehan Higgins, Buffalo, NY
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
The Casual Sex Diary follows a young man’s journey
from prudent gay teenager to sex positive adult, taking
him from his first time to the first time he did not know the
other man’s name and beyond. With candid humor and
unabashed candor, The Casual Sex Diary is the story of
people who touch one’s life… briefly.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Saturday, September 9 at 6:30
Sunday, September 10 at 6 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 4 pm
They Must Be Felt
The Puppet-Queers, Columbus, OH
(2002 & 2004 Festival Award Winner)
Take some Broadway showtunes. . . add a heaping
dose of filthy lyrics . . . mix-in some life-sized puppets . . .
bake with some queer puppeteers . . . then sit back
and enjoy the Puppet Queers latest concoction --THEY
MUST BE FELT. It's a non-stop performance of songs,
silliness and smut!
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Thursday, September 7 at 8 pm
Friday, September 8 at 9 pm
Saturday, September 9 at 5 pm and 8pm
Wednesday, September 13 at 8:30 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 9 pm
Somebody Else’s Life
Ragged Blade, St. Louis, MO
Three vignettes explore the actors’ relationships with
and effects on a gay rodeo cowboy, a shy gay bagboy, a
gay marriage, if legal, in Oklahoma.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Thursday, September 14 at 6pm
Friday, September 15 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 6pm
The Stops
Richmond Triangle Players, Richmond, VA
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
A fundamentally fabulous musical comedy that follows
three ladies of NALOG – The North American Lady
Organists Guild – as they spread the gospel on tour
where they kibbutz, schmooze, and regale
congregations with church songs such as “A Bossa Nova
for Jehovah”, “It’s Raining Amen”, “The Fundamental”
and others.
Nestor Auditorium
Saturday, September 9 at 6 pm
Sunday, September 10 at 6 pm
Monday, September 11 at 8:30 pm
What Happens When the Screen Door Breaks
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Los Angeles, CA
“What Happens When the Screen Door Breaks” uses
poetry, music, recollections, and movement to tell a story
about negotiating life as an transgendered Asian-
American woman. My image of God and self have
changed as I try to realize my status as trans, queer,
and abuse survivor.
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 7 at 7 pm
Friday, September 8 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 9 at 3 pm
Sunrize: The Musical
Sunrize Productions, Upper Darby, PA
Ms. Sunrize Highway (a loving satire on the great divas
of contemporary musical theater, created by Joseph
Ritsch) in her all new show SUNRIZE: The Musical, an
autobiography of Ms Highway’s “rags to riches” story.
The production features unique renditions of
showstoppers from Broadway and beyond, interspersed
with Ms. Highway’s whimsical reflections, winsome
musings, sage advice, cautionary tales and insightful
showbiz stories.
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 7 at 8 pm
Friday, September 8 at 7 pm
Saturday, September 9 8 pm
Color Me Naked Vol. 2, Big, Black and Sassy
Les Kurkendaal, Hollywood, CA
This monologue, written and performed by Les
Kurkendaal, is a mixture of storytelling and stand-up
comedy, that talks about racism and homophobia and
shows how stupid ignorance really is.
Club Diversity
Friday, September 15 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 6 pm and 8 pm
Will Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Will Davis, Dayton, OH
Will Doesn't Live Here Anymore is an offbeat, darkly
funny lounge act which blends off kilter arrangements of
popular songs with autobiographical vignettes and biting
political and social commentary.
Nestor Auditorium
Saturday, September 9 at 2 pm
Wednesday, September 13 at 9 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 6 pm
Awkward Moment Productions/Amy Salloway
Minneapolis, MN
Amy's having one of those LIVES. Her uterus is
rebelling, her perfect younger sister is destined for
stardom, her boyfriend won't give her a kidney, and the
body-image workshop she signs up for becomes a
surreal lesbian adventure. Is this going to be another
night spent commiserating with pot pies in the frozen
foods aisle? Or somewhere, somehow, can a single,
spherical girl figure out where she fits? This hit touring
show from Minnesota won Lavender Magazine's vote for
Best Solo Performance of 2003 and Critic's Pick of the
2005 Cincinnati Fringe. "Salloway is smart, funny,
observant and honest, with a mind that zooms into orbit
around a yet-to-be-discovered planet. -- The Cincinnati
Enquirer.."
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 14 at 9 pm
Friday, September 15 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 8 pm
Monday Night In Westerbork (World Premiere)
S. Bear Bergman, Northampton, MA
(2002 & 2004 Festival Award Winner)
A difficult, surprisingly funny, often complex and
ultimately joyous piece set along the plotlines of the
theater group at concentration camp Westerbork.
Monday Night In Westerbork finds Bergman solidly in hir
storytelling element, investigating points of intersection
and impact among identity, art, persecution and
resistance. Not your traditional Holocaust narrative, but
an educating, interrogating, celebrating piece of
theater including everything from a song-and-dance
number to a prayer for the dead. (please note: this piece
is appropriate for people thirteen years of age and
older.)
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 14 at 8 pm
Friday, September 15 at 7 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 4 pm
Thanks for the Scabies, Jerkface!
Dan Bernitt, Lexington, KY
Meet Dan. He met his boyfriend at an audition for a
reality TV show, his first roommate in college turns out to
be homophobic, and the entire check out aisle at Wal-
Mart knows he has scabies. After moving out of his
parents house, will this gay kid from Kentucky grow to
find a home?
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Friday, September 8 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, September 9 at 2 pm
Sunday, September 10 at 4pm
BAIT
David Sisco, New York City, NY
(2002 Festival Award Winner)
Best friends Justin and Charlie attend a "Gay Bait"
singles event hoping to find their match. As the evening
unfolds, however, they realize the dating pool is very
shallow. Two actors inhabit 30 desperate men in a
series of hilarious encounters that puncture stereotypes
and tip sacred cows.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Thursday, September 14 at 9 pm
Friday, September 15 at 7 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 7pm
Wonder Woman: The Musical
Elizabeth Whitney, Boston, MA
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
The story of Princess Diana, better known as 1970’s
liberal feminist superheroine, Wonder Woman. In this
campy cabaret, Diana chats with her audience during
the last leg of her Magic Lasso Comeback Tour. She
generously shares her fan letters and sings unique
karaoke covers of standards, ranging from I’m Wonder
Woman, Hear Me Roar to Stand By Your Butch.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Thursday, September 14 at 7 pm
Friday, September 15 at 9 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 8 pm
Icons: The Gay and Lesbian History of the
World, Volume 3
Jade Esteban Estrada, Brooklyn, NY
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
Solo performer, Jade Esteban Estrada portrays several
icons of the gay community in this follow up the 2004
festival favorite.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Monday, September 11 at 9pm
Tuesday, September 12 at 8:30 pm
None of the Above
Many Horses Productions/Jennifer Lanier,
Pahoa, Hawaii
Guided by her “shrink-o-therapist” and sage Aunt Vera,
you will hear this African American-Indian tail-end baby-
boomer openly and easily talk about things that most
folks only whisper about. Who says existential crisis can’t
be fun?
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 14 at 6:30 pm
Friday, September 15 at 9:30 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 2 pm
Butches Stand Up Tour
Journey Light, Anaheim, CA
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
Stand-up comedy that is brilliant, raw, and quick paced.
Journey has audiences laughing on topics about
butches and strap-ons, crazy straight women, and living
during the Brokeback Mountain Era. A night you won't
forget.
Club Diversity
Saturday, September 9 at 8 pm
Sunday, September 10 at 7pm
Monday, September 11 at 8 pm
Stripped and Teased: Scandalous Stories and
Subversive Subplots
Kimberly Dark, Pahoa, Hawaii
More like “stand-up story-telling” than a traditional
theater show, the show is one part performance poetry,
one part story-telling, one part interactive and all parts
political. And yes, there are stories about strippers –
strippers and lesbians, strippers and waitresses,
strippers and soldiers, and an evening of intimate
theater.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Saturday, September 9 at 3:30 pm
Sunday, September 10 at 8 pm
Monday, September 11 at 7:30 pm
The Casual Sex Diary
Matthew Crehan Higgins, Buffalo, NY
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
The Casual Sex Diary follows a young man’s journey
from prudent gay teenager to sex positive adult, taking
him from his first time to the first time he did not know the
other man’s name and beyond. With candid humor and
unabashed candor, The Casual Sex Diary is the story of
people who touch one’s life… briefly.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Saturday, September 9 at 6:30
Sunday, September 10 at 6 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 4 pm
They Must Be Felt
The Puppet-Queers, Columbus, OH
(2002 & 2004 Festival Award Winner)
Take some Broadway showtunes. . . add a heaping
dose of filthy lyrics . . . mix-in some life-sized puppets . . .
bake with some queer puppeteers . . . then sit back
and enjoy the Puppet Queers latest concoction --THEY
MUST BE FELT. It's a non-stop performance of songs,
silliness and smut!
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Thursday, September 7 at 8 pm
Friday, September 8 at 9 pm
Saturday, September 9 at 5 pm and 8pm
Wednesday, September 13 at 8:30 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 9 pm
Somebody Else’s Life
Ragged Blade, St. Louis, MO
Three vignettes explore the actors’ relationships with
and effects on a gay rodeo cowboy, a shy gay bagboy, a
gay marriage, if legal, in Oklahoma.
Columbus Performance Arts Center
Thursday, September 14 at 6pm
Friday, September 15 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 6pm
The Stops
Richmond Triangle Players, Richmond, VA
(2004 Festival Award Winner)
A fundamentally fabulous musical comedy that follows
three ladies of NALOG – The North American Lady
Organists Guild – as they spread the gospel on tour
where they kibbutz, schmooze, and regale
congregations with church songs such as “A Bossa Nova
for Jehovah”, “It’s Raining Amen”, “The Fundamental”
and others.
Nestor Auditorium
Saturday, September 9 at 6 pm
Sunday, September 10 at 6 pm
Monday, September 11 at 8:30 pm
What Happens When the Screen Door Breaks
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Los Angeles, CA
“What Happens When the Screen Door Breaks” uses
poetry, music, recollections, and movement to tell a story
about negotiating life as an transgendered Asian-
American woman. My image of God and self have
changed as I try to realize my status as trans, queer,
and abuse survivor.
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 7 at 7 pm
Friday, September 8 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 9 at 3 pm
Sunrize: The Musical
Sunrize Productions, Upper Darby, PA
Ms. Sunrize Highway (a loving satire on the great divas
of contemporary musical theater, created by Joseph
Ritsch) in her all new show SUNRIZE: The Musical, an
autobiography of Ms Highway’s “rags to riches” story.
The production features unique renditions of
showstoppers from Broadway and beyond, interspersed
with Ms. Highway’s whimsical reflections, winsome
musings, sage advice, cautionary tales and insightful
showbiz stories.
Nestor Auditorium
Thursday, September 7 at 8 pm
Friday, September 8 at 7 pm
Saturday, September 9 8 pm
Color Me Naked Vol. 2, Big, Black and Sassy
Les Kurkendaal, Hollywood, CA
This monologue, written and performed by Les
Kurkendaal, is a mixture of storytelling and stand-up
comedy, that talks about racism and homophobia and
shows how stupid ignorance really is.
Club Diversity
Friday, September 15 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 6 pm and 8 pm
Will Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Will Davis, Dayton, OH
Will Doesn't Live Here Anymore is an offbeat, darkly
funny lounge act which blends off kilter arrangements of
popular songs with autobiographical vignettes and biting
political and social commentary.
Nestor Auditorium
Saturday, September 9 at 2 pm
Wednesday, September 13 at 9 pm
Saturday, September 16 at 6 pm
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