A JURY OF OUR QUEERS
LESBIAN LIP SYNCS ON BROADWAY! MAE WEST MEETS METATHEATRICAL DRAG SHOW, PUTS QUEER LEGACY ON TRIAL!
Bombshell broad Mae West and rising Broadway starlet Helen Menken are arrested in 1926 for artistic obscenity and summoned to a metatheatrical courtroom. Their charges: serving face, serving legacy, and serving queer community. An intoxicating mix of drag show, courtroom drama, and theater, A JURY OF OUR QUEERS playfully blends historic texts and original writing in an act of radical queer re-envisioning.
You can view the digital program here.
Dmitri Barcomi (he/him) is a theater creator, director, and designer from New York City. Dmitri’s work has been seen throughout New York at Ars Nova, HERE Arts, La MaMa, Cloud City, BRIC, and other hubs of experimental new work, as well as internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Teatr Słowackiego in Kraków. Founder of artist collective §175. BA: The New School. MFA: Columbia. mxbarcomi.com | @dmxbarcomi
CREATIVE TEAM
Conceived & Directed by Dmitri Barcomi
Co created by Dmitri Barcomi, AJ Dresdale, Reina, DeVante Lewis, Seth Majnoon, Eri Nox, Nancy Nogood, & Avery Rose Pedell.
Associate Director Avery Rose Pedell
Stage Manager Sage Spitz
Created by Section175 Artist Collective and Unattended Baggage
CAST
AJ Dresdale, Jorge Felipe Guevara, Devante Lewis, and Nancy Nogood as Mae West.
PERFORMANCES
Target Margin Theatre (as part of the Exponential Festival, 2023)
Columbia University (Workshop, 2022)