Prince Faggot
- Written by Jordan Tannahill
- Directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
- A co-production with Soho Rep
Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, novelist, and director of film and theatre. His novels and plays have been translated into twelve languages, and honoured with a number of prizes including two Governor General’s Literary Awards, Canada’s highest state honour for literature. His plays, like Botticelli in the Fire, Concord Floral, and Is My Microphone On?, are in repertory at several European state theatres, 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), The Lincoln Centre (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 honoured 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 (Zola) 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 theatre students alongside seminal works by Constantin Stanislavsky and Peter Brook. 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. As a writer, he has worked collaboratively with a number of artists in different fields including Akram Khan, Miles Greenberg, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nina Arsenault, Sheila Heti, and Jenkin Van Zyl. From 2012 - 2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Jordan ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. Over the four years of its operation, Videofag became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in the city.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury is a many-tentacled writer and director, born in India, based in Brooklyn. He recently received an Obie Award for directing the world premiere of his playwriting debut, Public Obscenities, at Soho Rep, a co-production with the National Asian American Theatre Company. The “extraordinary bilingual drama” was a New York Times Critic's Pick and hailed as a “literary marvel” and “complexly layered masterwork” by The New Yorker.
Misha is the creator of VICHITRA, a series of sound-driven, cinematic experiments, including Englandbashi (Ann Arbor Film Festival); The Other Other (Ars Nova); An Anthology of Queer Dreams (Audio Unbound Award finalist); and In Order to Become (The Bushwick Starr). Misha is also an alumnus of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, New York Stage and Film Nexus, the Sundance Art of Practice Fellowship, BRIClab, Drama League’s Next Stage Residency, and Soho Rep’s Project Number One and Writer Director Lab.
A NYSCA/NYFA, Fulbright, and Kundiman fellow in poetry, Misha has been published in The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Portland Review, Asian American Literary Review, Lantern Review and elsewhere. Residencies: Macdowell, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Ucross, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Mercury Store.
Misha received his Bachelors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity under the mentorship of Maestra Cherríe Moraga at Stanford University, his Master of Fine Arts in Directing Theater at Columbia University under Anne Bogart, Brian Kulick, and Greg Mosher, and studied Lecoq-based physical theater at the London International School of Performing Arts. He has taught and directed at Stanford, Brown, NYU, CalArts, Fordham, Syracuse, UArts, Hunter College, CMU, and Williams.
In this meta-theatrical satire, an ensemble of queer, trans, and nonbinary performers reckon with how the forces of power, privilege, and colonization play upon their lives as the playwright offers a central provocation: what if queer people dared to imagine a future monarch having a life that resembled their own?
Salman Toor, Fag Puddle with Crown and Wire, 2022 ©️ Salman Toor; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
Prince Faggot has received generous support from Alex Levy, Andrew Tobias, and Jason Weinberg.
Tannahill possesses a powerful artistic voice that reflects where we come from, who we are, and who we may become.
A natural storyteller with a strong sense of narrative rhythm as well as the ability to launch into almost mystical flights of poetic vision.
Cast
Rachel Crowl
K. Todd Freeman
David Greenspan
Mihir Kumar
John McCrea
N'yomi Allure Stewart
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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).
(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.
(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.
Creative
David Zinn
Scenic DesignerMontana Levi Blanco
Costume DesignerIsabella Byrd
Lighting DesignerLee Kinney
Sound Design & Original MusicCookie Jordan
Wig and Hair DesignerSarah Lunnie
DramaturgUnkleDave's Fight-House
Intimacy CoordinationRyan Gohsman
Production Stage Manager(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, Playwrights 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.
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
(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.
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.
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).
(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
Out of respect and support for our performers, all performances of Prince Faggot will be phone-free. After scanning tickets, but before entering the house, phones will be secured in Yondr pouches by our ushers. Pouches will be unlocked as you leave the theater at the end of the show. You will maintain possession of your phone at all times. There will be a phone unlock station present in the lobby at all times if you do need to access your phone after it has been placed in a pouch.
We request that you turn off your phone and/or silence the ringer before placing your phone in the Yondr pouch. If your phone is left on, it will ring in the pouch during the show.
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Anyone seen using their device during the performance will be required to leave immediately, without a refund of your ticket. We encourage you to bring a bank or credit card for purchases inside the theatre.
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