Prince Faggot

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“Jordan Tannahill débuts a metatheatrical queer-futurist manifesto”

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“What happens if the heir to the throne is… well… you know? Jordan Tannahill’s play, set in the very near future, asks how queerness intersects with the very core of colonial power. Though it’s hard to imagine how that will all play out in this production, a team-up of the Soho Rep and Playwrights Horizons that the producers are calling a “meta-theatrical satire,” it’ll be directed by Public Obscenities’s Shayok Misha Chowdhury with a queer, trans, and nonbinary cast that includes expert performers like K. Todd Freeman and David Greenspan.”

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“As the Soho Rep moves in uptown with Playwrights Horizons, the two theater companies are collaborating on a project surely designed to get people talking: Jordan Tannahill’s play about a future monarch who happens to be a … well, the word’s in the title. (We’re getting far more explicit than Red, White & Royal Blue here.)”

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Jordan Tannahill

Playwright

Jordan Tannahill (he/him) is a playwright and novelist, whose work has been translated into twelve languages, and honored with a number of prizes including two Governor General’s Literary Awards. His plays, like Botticelli in the Fire, Concord Floral, and Is My Microphone On?, are in repertory at several European state theaters, and his work has been presented at venues including: The Young Vic Theatre (London), Sadler’s Wells (London), Festival d’Avignon (Avignon), The Kitchen (NYC), Lincoln Center (NYC), The Deutsches Theater (Berlin), Residenz Theater (Munich), The Volkstheater (Vienna), Juliusz Słowacki Theatre (Krakow), Canadian Stage (Toronto), and on London’s West End.

His debut novel, Liminal, was honored with France’s 2021 Prix des Jeunes Libraires. His second novel, The Listeners, was shortlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize, and was originally written as a story for an opera by composer Missy Mazzoli, which premiered at the National Opera of Norway in 2022. Tannahill has recently adapted The Listeners into a limited series for the BBC, directed by Janicza Bravo and starring Rebecca Hall, and is writing and directing his debut feature film, Rapture, for 2AM. Tannahill’s book of essays on theatre, Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama, was listed by Playbill in 2022 as one of fourteen essential books for theater students.

Jordan’s virtual reality performance Draw Me Close, produced by the National Theatre (UK) and the National Film Board of Canada, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017, played the Venice Film Festival, and ran at London’s Young Vic Theatre in 2019. From 2012 – 2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Jordan ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighborhood. Over the four years of its operation, Videofag became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in the city.

Shayok Misha Chowdhury

Director

Shayok Misha Chowdhury (he/him) is an Obie Award winning director and Whiting Award winning writer. His playwriting debut, Public Obscenities, was one of three finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. The bilingual play, in Bangla and English, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and named Best Theater of 2023 by the New Yorker. It premiered at Soho Rep as a co-production with the National Asian American Theatre Company and went on to encore runs at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Theatre for a New Audience.

Misha is also the recipient of a Princess Grace Award, The Mark O’Donnell Prize, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, a Jonathan Larson Grant, and the Relentless Award for his musical How the White Girl Got Her Spots and Other 90s Trivia, a collaboration with composer Laura Grill Jaye. Other recent collaborations include Brother, Brother (New York Theatre Workshop) with Aleshea Harris, SPEECH (Philly Fringe) with Lightning Rod Special, and MukhAgni (Under the Radar @ The Public Theater) with Kameron Neal. Misha was also a collaborator on the Grammy Award winning album Calling All Dawns.

A two-time Sundance Fellow, he is the creator of VICHITRA, a series of short films rooted in queer South Asian imagination. A Kundiman, Fulbright, and NYSCA/NYFA fellow, his poems have been published in The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Hunger Mountain, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere. He is currently working with his physicist mother on a new project, Rheology, that will premiere at The Bushwick Starr, in April 2025, as a co-production with HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theatre Company.

David Zinn

Scenic Designer

David Zinn (he/him). Recent Broadway: Last Five Years, Stereophonic, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Notebook, Kimberly Akimbo, Funny Girl, The Humans, Spongebob Squarepants, Fun Home. Off-Broadway: The Shed, Playwright’s Horizons, Roundabout, MTC, NYTW, LCT, 2nd Stage, Public. Also: A.C.T., A.R.T, Berkeley Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Yale Rep; and The National, Young Vic (UK); Berlin Staatsoper; and Theater Basel. He’s received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle, Hewes and Obie Awards for his work.

Montana Blanco

Costume Designer

Montana Blanco (he/him). Soho Rep: Fairview, Is God Is, Montag. Playwrights Horizons: A Strange Loop (Obie Award), Selling Kabul. Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award) & A Strange Loop. Select Off-Broadway: The House That Will Not Stand (Lortel Award) (NYTW), Fefu and Her Friends (Henry Hewes Award), He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (Obie Award) (TFANA), Ain’t No Mo’ (Henry Hewes Award) (Public). Opera: Champion, El Niño (Metropolitan), & Rinaldo (Glimmerglass). Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music, Brown University, and the Yale School of Drama.

Isabella Byrd

Isabella Byrd Broadway: Cabaret, An Enemy of the People, Romeo+Juliet. Recent or Notable Off-Broadway: Churchill short plays, Grief Camp, Infinite Life; Primary Trust; Epiphany; Sanctuary City; Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Corsicana, Plano. International: Cabaret (West End), Weather Girl. Awards: two-time 2024 Tony nominee, Drama Desk Special Award, three Lortels, two Obies, Henry Hewes, Olivier nomination. Proud USA829 member, pay equity and sustainability advocate. www.isabellabyrd.design

Lee Kinney

Sound Design & Original Music

Lee Kinney (he/him). Playwrights Horizons: Selling Kabul, The Light Years. Soho Rep: For All The Women... Broadway: Is This A Room. Select Off-Broadway: Walden (Second Stage); You Will Get Sick, Exception To The Rule (Roundabout); Help (The Shed); Prayer For The French Republic, Morning Sun (MTC); The Good John Proctor (Bedlam); “Daddy” (New Group/Vineyard); Thom Pain (Signature); Gnit (Theatre for a New Audience). Other projects include work with Rolex, Almeida Theatre, Google, Virgin Voyages. Outer Critics Circle Honors for Outstanding Sound Design. Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Henry Hewes nominations.

Cookie Jordan

Wig and Hair Designer

Cookie Jordan. Soho Rep: Give Me Carmelita Tropicana, The Great Privation, An Octoroon, Fairview. Playwrights Horizons: A Strange Loop, If Pretty Hurts. Broadway: Camelot, Flex, Piano Lessons, Merrily We Roll Along, The Skin of Our Teeth, South Pacific. Skeleton Crew, Trouble in Mind, Clyde’s, Slave Play, Choir Boy, The Cher Show, Once on This Island, Sunday in the Park with George, In Transit, Eclipsed, Side Show and A View From the Bridge. Additional Off-Broadway: All the Natalie Portmans, Girls, Fefu and Her Friends, Ain’t No Mo’, Toni Stone, The Secret Life of Bees, Boseman and Lena, Fabulation, Our Lady of 121st Street, In the Blood. TV: “The Wiz Live!” (makeup). Jordan has received three Drama Desk nominations, an Emmy nomination, two Obie Awards, and a Henry Hewes Design Award.

Sarah Lunnie

Dramaturg

Sarah Lunnie. Playwrights Horizons: The Antiquities, The Thin Place, The Christians, Miles for Mary. Broadway: What The Constitution Means To Me; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hillary and Clinton; Grand Horizons. Select Off-Broadway: Public Obscenities, The Ally, Where The Mountain Meets the Sea, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie, among many others. Sarah has previously worked in the artistic offices of the Public, the Jungle Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she curated and developed new work for the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

UnkleDave’s Fight-House

Intimacy Coordination

Dave Anzuelo is the founder of UnkleDave’s Fight-House, which is a three-time Drama Desk nominated team of fight/intimacy directors. Playwrights Horizons: Catch As Catch Can. Broadway: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Kimberly Akimbo. Off Broadway: The Hours Are Feminine (Intar); What Will Happen To All That Beauty (CATF); Bathhouse.PPTX (Flea Theater); Oedipus El Rey (Public Theater); On The Grounds Of Belonging, View From The Bridge (Longwharf); Burning (New Group).

Ryan Gohsman

Production Stage Manager

Ryan Gohsman (he/him): Playwrights Horizons: In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Staff Meal, The Light Years, Antlia Pneumatica, Detroit, Maple and Vine, ’10-11 Season Fellow. Broadway: Here Lies Love (also Public Theater & consultant at National Theatre, London). Select Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (Current Revival); Pretty Filthy (Civilians); Hundred Days, Mary Jane (NYTW); The Death of the Last Black Man…, Chéri (Signature); PROTOTYPE/BMP. Regional: The Bedwetter (Arena Stage); Long Wharf, Bard SummerScape; several seasons at Barrington Stage Co. @rye.gohsman

Rachel Crowl

Performer 3

Rachel Crowl (she/her) Soho Rep and Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Between Two Knees (Obie Award) (Perelman Performing Arts Center). Regional: Between Two Knees (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Seattle Rep), As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Henry V (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater), The Swindlers (Baltimore Center Stage). Film: And Then There Was Eve, Smiley Face Killers. TV: The Sensitive Kind (FX), New Amsterdam (NBC). Video Games: Life Is Strange: Double Exposure.

K. Todd Freeman

Performer 2

K. Todd Freeman (he/him) Soho Rep debut. Playwrights Horizons: Downstate (Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Obie Awards). Broadway: The Minutes, Airline Highway (Tony nom., DD Award), Song of Jacob Zulu (Tony nom.), Wicked. Off-Broadway: Fetch Clay, Make Man (NYTW—Obie Award); Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…etc., Spunk (The Public). TV: Will Trent, Horror of Dolores Roach, The Rehearsal, High Maintenance, Series of Unfortunate Events, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, NYPD Blue. Film: The Same Storm, Anesthesia, The Dark Knight, Cider House Rules, Grosse Point Blank.

David Greenspan

Performer 5

David Greenspan (he/him) Soho Rep: David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette. Playwrights Horizons: in his plays She Stoops to Comedy and Go Back to Where You Are, and Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax. Elsewhere: in his plays Dead Mother, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel, his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia; solo renditions: The Patsy, Strange Interlude and Four Saints in Three Acts; solo plays: Joey Merlo’s On Set With Theda Bara and Mona Pirnot’s I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan; six OBIES.

Mihir Kumar

Performer 1

Mihir Kumar (he/him) Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, and Off-Broadway debut. TV: ‘And Just Like That’ (Max), ‘Elsbeth’ (CBS), ‘Law and Order: SVU’ (NBC). Theatre: Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Girls (Yale Rep); A Doll’s House (Yale Cabaret); The Winter’s Tale, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Yale School of Drama). Mihir has developed new work at the Vineyard, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, and NYTW. Education: UCLA (BA); Yale School of Drama (MFA).

John McCrea

Performer 6

John McCrea (he/him) Soho Rep and Playwrights Horizons debut. West End: Cabaret, Daddy – A Melodrama, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Olivier Nomination for Best Actor In A Musical), The Busker’s Opera. Film: Think Of England, Femme, Cruella, She Will, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, God’s Own Country. Television: Father Brown, We Hunt Together, Pistol, Girl/Haji, Dracula.

N’yomi Allure Stewart

Performer 4

N’yomi Allure Stewart (she/her) Soho Rep and Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun (The Public Theater), Richard III (Shakespeare in the Park). Associate Director: Cats: The Jellicle Ball (Perelman Performing Arts Center). Residencies: GALLIM Moving Artist Resident; New York Theatre Workshop Artist in Residence; BTFA (Black Trans Femmes in the Arts) Artist in Residence. Education: University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Mother of the House of Unbothered Cartier and forever Princess of the Pier.

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Prince Faggot contains strobe lighting, theatrical haze/smoke, and loud sounds.

Mature themes and content include:

Minor use of profanity

Mentions of violence and addiction

Depictions of drug use (poppers)

Explicit sexual content (nudity & fetish practices)

References to discriminatory attitudes (internalized & systematic racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, sexism, and xenophobia)

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