The Mikki Gillette Readers Series presents Riot Queens
Schedule
Sat Aug 03 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Twilight Theater Company | Portland, OR
Riot Queensby Mikki Gillette
Aug 3 @ 8pm
$15/ticket
$35/all three Mikki Gillette readings with performance dates of Feb 17, Aug 3, and Nov 16 (In order to receive the full series discounted price, add all three of Mikki's shows to your cart when you're checking out.)
synopsis: Riot Queens follows the lives of three young trans women in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco in the months leading up to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot of 1966, a queer uprising that predated Stonewall by three years. Dixie advocates for queer rights as a member of Vanguard, an activist group for street youth. Haley is a sex worker with a traumatic past who fears that the changes taking place will threaten the precarious life she's built, and Nina is torn between the life she can envision for herself, and the debt she feels she owes her community.
About Mikki Gillette:
Mikki Gillette is a trans woman playwright. She was named one of Portland, OR’s 25 Most Influential Artists by Willamette Week magazine. Her play American Girl was featured in American Theatre and was produced in April ‘23. Other productions include The Queers (Fuse Theatre ’22), My Perfectly Valid Objections (Salt and Sage ’23) and They Them Their (Fuse Theatre ’23). Mikki’s short Intimate Matters was published in Smith & Kraus’s collection, The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2023. She was a member of the Ashland New Plays Festival 2022 New Voices Cohort. Learn more at: mikkigillette.com.
Where is it happening?
Twilight Theater Company, 2205 N Lombard St, Portland, OR 97217-5770, United States,Portland, Oregon
