This Friday and Saturday, I'm taking part in a staged reading of the new work from playwright Nelle Tankus. SLACK WATER is the story of Semmie (Miss Violet DeVille), an elder trans woman who is pregnant and wasn't just a few days ago. She demands that it should be a natural birth or nothing at all, tasking her children, Pearl (Sam Ro) and Marge (Jordi Montes), with helping her carry her miraculous child to term. 

This staged reading of Slack Water is open to the public via Zoom on Friday, November 19th at 7:00 pm PT with a 15-minute talkback afterward, and Saturday, November 20th at 7:00 pm PT. 

Starring: Miss Violet DeVille (she/her/they/them), Sam Ro (they/them), and Jordi Montes (she/her/they/them)

This reading will be close captioned in English using Zoom's captioning function.

This reading takes place on the traditional territories of the Duwamish, the first people of this land, past, and present. To learn more about how to be in the right relationship with the Duwamish, please visit https://www.realrentduwamish.org/

Slack Water - a new play Zoom reading
Written by Nelle Tankus
Directed by QuiQui Dominguez

We believe theatre should be accessible to all, therefore there is no cost to attend, but there is a suggested donation of $10. This money will go to paying the artists and supporting the reading.

Please send your donations to the playwright's Venmo @nelletankus.

hell week \ ˈhel wēk \ (noun) Hell week, also called technical week, tech week, tech, techweek, and production week, is the week prior to the opening night of a play, musical or similar production in which all of the technical elements (such as costumes, lights, sound, set and makeup) are present during rehearsal for the first time.

I'm am safe ensconced in my host's home up here in Vancouver as we prepare for the opening of the Geekender's Neverland Night Circus run for the Vancouver Fringe Festival. We spent a few hours last night blocking my scene--figuring out how I'm moving--and what bits of business we're going to be doing with my character.

And who am I? Why, only the fairy mother of the night, midwife to sleeper’s dreams, Queen Mab. A simple “your majesty” will suffice.

Tonight is tech rehearsal. The plan is to run the show at least 3 times tonight. The Neverland Night Circus is an immersive piece of theater, set up in a similar fashion to haunted attractions, where groups of audience members walk from scene to scene which enforces social distancing and small groups in this time of plague. I'm super excited about this innovative approach to managing COVID risk in the theater.

The Neverland Night Circus is a retelling of the Peter Pan story. It's delightful and innovative in its telling.

"Come away with me."

You hesitate... But who doesn't want to run away with the circus?

You escape to a big top lost outside of time, an ephemeral spectacle that springs up every night at dusk in an explosion of music and glitter, only to disappear again as sunbeams crawl over the morning horizon. Audience members will follow that perpetual boy to meet scintillating mermaids, beautiful fairies, and the hopeful Wendy, deciding as she does whether to stay in Neverland... or to fly away home.

The Neverland Night Circus at the Vancouver Fringe Festival opens Friday night, September 10th, and continues through the 19th. Tickets are $15 and the show runs for about an hour. Tickets are available here.

 Come run away with me. The circus beckons you to join us!

From Midnight Mystery Theater's 2019 show
The Case of the Missing Beagle
at the Palace Theater and Art Bar

This is exciting! Tomorrow night I'm doing a radio play over Zoom! I'll be in the Midnight Mystery Theater's Annual Women's show, The Case of the Missing Scarlett!! For your entertainment, I will be playing not just one character but four!

It’s another madcap mystery, this time in Hollywood with Hollywood Private Eye Helena Handbasket, and a cast of zany characters, all played by the talented ladies of MMT and beyond!

Joining me in this screwball comedy is Gail Wamba Flynn-Kibbey as Helena Handbasket, Lindsey Dabek, Maureen Hawkins, Melissa Henderson, Bonnie Hillman, and Jane Martin! Bob Blumenthal is mixing our music and Josh Flynn-Kibbey is providing the sound effects!!

The house opens at 8:25 PM and the last guests will be admitted at 8:35 PM – please be there by that time so we can let you into our show.

Here's the Zoom link so you can see then show! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88527622387?pwd=T3dSTGNyNU5rR1VCODEwQzN0UGRWQT09

I hope you'll join us. These shows are always a lot of fun!