Rainbow Theatre Project
Our Stories. Our Voices. Our Time.
Photo by M. V. Jantzen
2022–2023 Season
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Washington DC is the second-largest theatre town in North America. There are very few theatres currently in DC that exclusively reflect the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) experience. We're very excited about Rainbow, but we need your help to make it happen. Please show your support.
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Rainbow Theatre Project is a nonprofit organization, a registered 501(c)(3) and your donation is fully tax-deductible. If you have any questions regarding our theatre, your donation, or how to become more involved with Rainbow, please feel free to contact us at info@rainbowtheatreproject.org.
Readings
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 *
Tickets: $15
Greetings From The Red Planet • by Natalie Ann Valentine
The only thing harder to find than your soulmate is your soul. Arin Ramos-Roman wins the lottery to be the first person on a one-way trip to live on Mars when our planet is on fire in the not-as-distant-as-we'd-like future. Arin leaves behind their doting by complicated mother, their loving but smartass sister, a dead dog, a dead wife, and every single episode of The X-Files. Unfortunately for Arin, no matter how far we run, we can't escape our past — or ourselves.
Natalie Ann Valentine is a playwright, actor, burlesque performer, fiber artist, poet, and theatre-maker. If you're looking for hopeful queer magic with a touch of melancholy, you are in the right place.
Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. *
Tickets: $15
Parzival • by Percival Hornak
The playwright describes this brand-new play as "an adaptation of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival that explores trans identity and self-insert fan fiction alongside Arthurian legend."
Percival Hornak is a dramaturg and playwright who loves baseball, ghost stories, and plays about lesbians. He is an MFA candidate in Dramaturgy at UMass Amherst and is proud to be a co-producer of Dungeons and Drama Nerds, a podcast exploring the intersection between theatre and tabletop role-playing games. Companies Percy has worked with include Arena Stage, Team Awesome Robot, Andy's Summer Playhouse, Luna Stage, and the Theatre Communications Group.
Wednesday, June 15 at 6:00 p.m. *
Tickets: $15
Faux Flowers • by Anthony Green • Director: Anthony Green
Set in present-day Washington, DC, this new play is a tale of "trauma turned to murder during an Easter dinner." TW: the play deals with themes involving sexual trauma. A brief discussion will be held with the playwright and cast after the reading. This is a co-production with Cagedbirds Productions written and directed by Anthony Green.
Anthony Green is a writer, director and LGBT advocate from Memphis, Tennessee who moved to DC to continue a career in sexual health. His debut book, #BlackGayStoriesMatter, is available on Amazon. He has fellowships with Lambda Literary, Mayor Muriel Bowser's 202 Creates and NASTAD's Minority Leadership Program. Anthony is also the founder of Cagedbirds Productions, and his hit play, When Boys Exhale, has sold out shows in both Atlanta & DC and is returning to DC in July!
Thursday, June 16 at 6:00 p.m. *
Tickets: $15
Author's Note • by Nell Quinn-Gibney
The play concerns high school explorations of sex and sexuality through a classic educational source: badly written fanfiction!
Nell Quinn-Gibney is a playwright, actor, and game designer living in New York CIty. She previously worked with Rainbow Theatre Project in 2017, appearing as Sophie in The DOMA Diaries. Her play Proxy, co-written with Alex Reeves, appeared onstage at Rapid Lemon Productions in Baltimore (directed by Tess Huth!) and at Gadfly Theatre Productions in Minneapolis. Her play #SquadGhouls received second place in the Big Red Barn contest. You can follow her other theatrical work at Out Of Ink Productions, and her tabletop gaming work at Tales of Quelmar.
Venues
* Crazy Aunt Helen's
713 8th St. SE
Washington, DC 20003
