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 an Obie Award-winning director and Whiting Award-winning writer. He directed the world premiere of his playwriting
debut, Public Obscenities (Soho Rep, NAATCO, Woolly Mammoth, TFANA), a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Misha’s many-tentacled practice,
spanning theater, music, poetry, and film, has earned him The Relentless Award, The Mark O’Donnell Prize, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Princess Grace Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, two Sundance fellowships, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Recent: Rheology (Bushwick Starr, HERE, Ma-Yi). Up next: Gospel at Colonus (Little Island).
A New York Times Critic's Pick!
Let us tell you a fairy tale about a prince.
In this meta-theatrical tragicomedy, an ensemble of queer and trans performers cast themselves in a thought experiment, imagining the future heir to the British throne as having a life resembling their own. Reckoning with how the forces of power, privilege, and colonization play upon queer lives, Prince Faggot is a raw and radical take on a queer coming of age.
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Prince Faggot runs approximately two hours with no intermission.
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.
If the playwright means to shock, mission accomplished. But here’s the real shocker… The play is thrilling.
A horny, thought-provoking play that's as academic as it is avant-garde.
One of the year's best new plays.
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 DesignerJack Serio
Associate DirectorSarah Lunnie
DramaturgUnkleDave's Fight-House
Intimacy CoordinationRyan Gohsman
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights Horizons: Hir, The Flick (Drama Desk nomination, also Barrow Street and National Theater, UK), Circle Mirror Transformation, Kin, The Big Meal, Completeness, Placebo. Broadway: A Doll’s House Part 2 (costumes, Tony nom.), Amelie; Present Laughter; The Humans (Tony Award); Fun Home (Tony nomination); The Last Ship, In the Next Room (Tony nomination), Xanadu. Off-Broadway: Hamlet, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, 10 out of 12.
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
Content Transparency
Age Recommendation: Due to sexual content, nudity, and subject matter, this play is best suited for ages 18+. For more details, please reference our Content Transparency section below. *May contain plot spoilers.
For a description of topics and sensory experiences that audiences may find distressing or inaccessible in advance of attending Prince Faggot, please click here to read our Content Transparency Statement. If you have any additional questions about content, age-appropriateness, or stage effects (such as strobe lights) that might have a bearing on patron comfort, please utilize our Audience Services Form or email audienceservices@phnyc.org.
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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