Baltimore Playwrights Festival

Upcoming Production

THE GROTTO

After being ousted from Mt. Olympus by his children/fellow deities for being a PR nightmare, a modern-day Zeus finds a kindred spirit in Sissy Fuss, the ferociously stubborn proprietress of a Greek mythology-obsessed drag club in Athens, GA. While they're hiding away from the world, Zeus’s children begin inserting themselves in the affairs of the Drag Queens left floundering in the wake of their fearless leader’s departure. Can Sissy and the rest of her house make amends and find the divinity within themselves to stand up to their immortal interlopers before their chosen family is torn apart?
Cast:

Sir Bearus – Louisa Davis (they/them)
Daddy Lust – Jeny Dalrymple (she/her)
Peggy Sis – Ricky Rich (he/him)
Anne Brosia –Kamau Harvey-Davis (he/him)
Demi Go-Go's (Tragedy) –Tyshawna Simmons (she/her)
(Comedy) –Micheal Wills (he/him)
Aphrodite – Paris (she/her)
Hermes – Abraham Williams (he/him)
Zeus – Christopher Reed (he/him)
Athena –Terena McLorn (she/her)
Apollo – Ha'Zel (he/him)
Sissy Fuss – TaVon Vinson (he/him)

Upcoming Production

A new work by a local Baltimore playwright selected from this season of exciting BPF readings!

It’s 1977 and things are looking up for Prof. Julian Chapel! He has a new exhibition and, possibly, a new boyfriend. But scandal erupts when the Dean believes a homoerotic painting is actually a portrait of Roberto, one of Julian’s graduate students. Before Julian can decide what to do, the painting mysteriously disappears. Floating Down to Camelot is about love, art, and finding allies in unlikely places.

A collaboration with The Baltimore Playwrights Festival!
Tickets online at www.spotlighters.org/Camelot

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Every year, the BPF receives a number of original, never-produced plays by people who live in Maryland or Washington, DC.  Those plays are reviewed by our members and some are selected to eventual be put into production by BPF and member theaters.

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