PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Cassandra Snow
TELEPHONE: 612-607-3791
Email: gadflytheatre@gmail.com


Gadfly Theatre Productions Presents “QUEER!” 


Throughout the Month of January QUEER! is BACK!
QUEER! is making a comeback all across the Twin Cities with pop up performances at some of your favorite venues! Partnering with some amazing organizations here in the metro, we have been able to bring QUEER! to 3 entirely new venues in January. All venues only cost $10 (although you are more than welcome to give give give so much more if you are able).

QUEER! was conceived in house based on over a hundred submissions and interviews, premiered at the Bisexual Organizing Project's Because Conference, and was recognized by Lavender as Outstanding Achievement in Performance Art for it's June 2013 run. It has been rewritten for 6 actors playing multiple parts and the one drag queen MC as well as to stay current on issues important to this community. So join us for a Gadfly original and let's support our community together.

About Gadfly Theatre Productions:
Gadfly Theatre Productions is currently in their third season of queer, feminist, and experimental art. The troupe provides an artistic haven for audiences and artists alike, a place to explore, create, and open safe dialogues about LGBTQ and feminist issues. The company also zeroes in on inequities that queer and new artists face, providing one-of-a-kind opportunities for self-expression and exploration. Gadfly breaks binaries and establishes community, seeking to prove that all persons on the spectrum deserve a voice, a stage, and a story they can relate to. Gadfly Theatre Productions, rooted in Minneapolis and led by Cassandra Snow and Immanuel Elliott, produces three–four shows per year, with audiences coming from all walks of life to see the company's work.

Cast:
Beckett Love
BethAnne Nelson
Dana Lee Thompson
Immanuel Elliot
Lucas Scheelk
Nikolas Martell
Nora Paige Huxtable

Directed By:
Cassandra Snow

Performance Dates:
January 18th, Fox Egg Gallery 7:30 PM
$10 at the door
*Feel free to donate more--proceeds are split between Fox Egg and Gadfly performers--two great groups of artists.

January 24th, Cherokee Park United Church 7:30 PM
$10 at the door

January 25th, Muffin Top Cafe, 7:30 PM
$10 at the door--includes a cup of coffee!
*We will pass the hat to help cover costs of coffee, but no pressure!

More Information:

Our Website:http://gadflytheatre.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gadflytheatreproductions 
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gadflytheatre

What a marvelous night we had last weekend with all kinds of amazing talent coming out to perform for us and the fabulous Melissa Hesse shooting these photos. I wanted to add a slideshow so even if you didn't quite make it you can see the shenanigans we were up too. If you weren't able to make it and want to contribute, please click over to our GiveMN page, but otherwise just enjoy these beautiful photos of a truly queer and querulous night. MUCH love to the fabulous performers featured, especially Mad M. Moxie, featured in the header shot.

Scripts are now being accepted for Gadfly Theatre Productions’ annual Final Frontier Festival. The Final Frontier Festival is a one-act play festival exploring the intersection of queer, feminist, and geek culture.

Vampires! Haunted houses! Deranged serial killers who may or may not wear your face like a mask! That’s right goblins and ghouls, the theme for this year’s Final Frontier Festival will be Horror! So if you’ve been working on the next great zombie play, or have been toying with the idea of writing a kickass lady slasher play, then this festival is for you! Can you send a shiver up our spine with your queer and/or feminist horror scripts? That remains to be seen, but what is certain, is that the pentagrams have been drawn, the werewolves have howled, and the Final Frontier Festival: Horror is coming! Lock your doors, say your prayers, and send us your scripts!

Scripts should be no longer than forty five minutes, contain queer and/or feminist themes in a horror genre, and have minimal technical demands. We are seeking six one-acts to be performed in repertory over a two week run in the summer of 2015. Each show will receive four performances.

Interested parties should send an electronic copy of the script to gadflytheatre@gmail.com no later than January 31st, 2015.

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Cassandra Snow
Email: gadflytheatre@gmail.com

Gadfly Theatre Productions Presents Their QUEERulous Cabaret
Cabaret just got even kookier, sexier, and queerer

August 25th, 2014 (Minneapolis/St. Paul) -- Gadfly Theatre Productions, a queer and feminist theatre production company presents their annual fundraiser on September 21st at 7:00 P.M. Featuring some of the best the Twin Cities has to offer in comedy, burlesque, drag, dance, and so much more, this year’s event carries on Gadfly’s queer and feminist mission with a couple of sets each from performers from all walks of life. Gadfly’s season explores some darker genres this year, so this cabaret too has a loose macabre-inspiration that it’s Hell’s Kitchen setting and always-unpredictable hosting by Mad M. Moxie lend themselves to perfectly.  The QUEERulous Cabaret is one of the most diverse in town--in the ways you come to expect from Gadfly, and in the scope of performance styles. We have dancers Taiyo and the Geek Slink bellydance troupe, drag queens Phaedra Simone and Martina Marraccino, Poet Nikolas Martell, Poet and Singer-Songwriter Oliver Schminkey, comedians Sarah McPeck and Maggie Faris, musical acts Jeffrey Goodson and Evan Boyce, and Burlesque performers Sassy Von Stradler and Melanie Day as Lulu Ritchie, as well as a few surprises and some sneak peeks at the season up our sleeves!

Tickets are available now, and in addition to the cabaret, Gadfly will have a silent auction of goods and services donated from local vendors, and Hell’s Kitchen will have their full menu available for purchase. All ticket and silent auction proceeds go to support Gadfly in this breakthrough season of inclusive and uniquely universal work, the artists who work with the company, and raising visibility of queer and female voices and awareness about the issues important to those communities through our brave and unexpected work.

Performance Date and Location:
September 21st, 2014 7:00 P.M.   
Hell’s Kitchen
80 S 9th St
Minneapolis, MN 55402

Tickets:    
In advance: $15 for General Admission, $25 for VIP seating
Day Of: All seats $20. No VIP seating available at door.

More Information:
Our Website:http://gadflytheatre.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gadflytheatre
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gadflytheatreproductions

Gadfly Theatre Productions announces auditions for Girl Gumshoe & Detective Dad by Eli Effinger-Weintraub.

Gina is a 22 year old who is moving out of her parents' basement and into her first place with her girlfriend, Sarita. On moving day her father, Troy, thinks he sees a body fall from the roof of her new building and instigates a final game of Girl Gumshoe & Detective Dad, a game from her childhood. As the case gets more and more ridiculous Gina has to choose between staying daddy's little girl and becoming her own woman.

The roles we're looking for

• Irene Davenport: Female, White, late 40's-early 60's. Gina's mother. Irene is ecstatic that Gina's moving out but none too pleased about the specific circumstances.
• Sarita de la Cruz: Female, Latina, early/mid 20's. Gina's girlfriend, an actress. Sarita loves Gina, but the entire Davenport clan is making her rethink their relationship.
• Nan Kirschman: Female, any ethnicity, mide 40's-early 60's. The apartment complex's unofficial welcome wagon. Sweet and a little lonely.

Auditions will be held at Boneshaker Books (2002 23rd Ave S) in Seward from 6-8pm on August 10th, 2014. The show will open October 17th and run through the 26th at the People's Center Theater (425 20th Ave S Minneapolis).

To arrange an audition time please email a headshot and resume to gadlfytheatre@gmail.com.
Artists of color and artists identifying as part of the LGBTQIA* community are particularly encouraged to audition.

We’re building a PlayGround for the Obscure, the Oppressed, and the Unapologetically Original---and we want you to join our motley crew of queer, feminist, and allied administrative and technical artists. We’re looking for at least three Superheroes to join our Social Justice League. We are an performing arts production company looking for smart, motivated theatre lovers who want an opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive in technical and administrative capacities and are passionate about queer and women’s voices getting fair visibility and awareness.

The openings we have are: Development Director and Marketing Director (which does include some fundraising responsibilities). Experience is not as important as passion and dedication, but send us your resumes anyway-- e-mail gadflytheatre@gmail.com to set up an interview. If you’re looking to enter an artistic company ready and chomping at the bit to grow and thrive, something you can start with at the ground level and watch become huge, and do work for the artistic, queer, and women’s communities that you can grow more proud of with each passing day--don’t hesitate to contact us today about becoming involved.

*These are largely work-from-home, cut-of-house to start, extremely part-time positions--for now. Women, LGBTQQIA* persons, and persons of color are especially encouraged to apply but all resumes will be considered.

Christian mysticism, a women's emotional and entertaining journey, and the concept of home all feature in this ethereal one-woman show starring Lori Castille. Emerging director Anna Lewein was immediately sure this is the script she wanted to take the lead on for this festival, and when actress Lori Castille walked into the room and told a story as part of her audition, everything fell right into place.

This is Lori's second show with Gadfly after a turn as a clown and other assorted ensemble in this past fall's Othello, but this time she puts on a more serious face as she plays several different characters who help the lead in her journey. It's hard to talk about this play without giving too much away, but with a burning bush and tents gradually popping up, the script did present a few challenges--not to mention the unique task that always comes with one-person shows. The company is so proud of and excited for this work, and knows you're going to love it.

The show was written by Tacoma playwright J.C. Pankratz, who devised the show after seeing an image in her mind of a woman tending to a burning bush. Desire to learn and create a show around this woman, Pankratz used the one-woman format so other characters wouldn't distract from this woman's journey and significance. Her efforts were incredibly successful, but don't take out word for it. Come check out Honest to God opening Friday the 13th, then playing the 15th, 19th, and 21st at Nimbus Theatre as part of Gadfly's Final Frontier Festival. Tickets are available here. Don't miss your chance to see this provocative, magical work.

Cassandra Snow, Gadfly Artistic Director and director of The Wolves Above speaking, and I am so relieved and excited to finally be writing about my own show! I chose this script for a lot of reasons that artistic directors choose scripts for festivals that I won't bore you with--balance of sci-fi and fantasy and queer and feminist among them--but it was my first choice from the very beginning. This is one of the longer pieces in the festival, but I probably read it quicker than most of the other script submissions I was so intrigued.

The show is, basically, the story of a woman/robot named Venus who becomes self-aware due to a glitch in her programming. As she finds out more and more about the two men who created her and the war of 2092 that sent them underground, she starts forming her own thoughts and ideas for the first time to both heartbreaking and inspiring ends. I have been working with a dream cast in G Zachariah White, as a scientist with less than honorable intentions and methods, and Indira Addington as the aforementioned  Venus. Both White and Addington are back with Gadfly after performing in our fall production of Othello. Rounding out the cast as the idealistic but still so-very-human Booker is Nikolas Martell, an actor and poet who hasn't graced the Gadfly stage yet--but many will recognize his name as the poet who penned the poems from our hit show QUEER!

The Wolves Above goes up Friday the 13th, then shows again on the 15th, 19th, and 21st at Nimbus Theatre. I highly recommend a whole festival pass as all three of these fine talents show up in other shows, but tickets for a show, a night, or the festival are available here.

It's not often a show falls into our lap proclaiming to slay gender essentialism right in it's title--which is why when director Kristin Fox chose this show as her piece for the festival, our geeky little hearts rejoiced. A cutting look at various geek mythologies and how they as well as the cultures they create treat geek girls or anyone outside the binary, this show centers around endlessly endearing protagonist Sam as Gargle takes her through multiple dimensions to help him fight many platonic ideals--including masculinity and femininity.

A cast that is a wonderful mix of Gadfly returning talent Indira Addington, Steve Modena, G Zachariah White, and Fox herself alongside newbies Cheyne King and Lauren Diesch. Our Othello fight director Steve Looten Jr. also lends his talents to this show--but I don't want to give too much away!

Playwright Alex Reed gave us a great little blurb that we're just copying and pasting. He had this to say about his show: "Sci-fi is my favorite genre because, at its best, it can fundamentally change the way you perceive the universe. Space, time, probability: all can be shattered, pieced together, pulled, stretched, inverted, and twisted in every combination imaginable. But when it comes to social issues, much (though certainly not all) sci-fi can be disappointingly regressive. In universes of literally infinite possibility, it’s aggravating to see a sci-fi production reaffirm conventional gender norms, assuring us that society is fine just the way it is, rather than stimulate our imaginations through visions of better societies. When I created the character of Gargle McFury for a one-act I wrote for a Directing class, I wanted he/she to shatter all boundaries conceivable. He/she exists outside not only time, space, and probability, but outside every category we might use to classify a person, especially sex and gender. For this one-act, the second in the Gargle McFury saga, Gargle is able to share a little of this freedom from categorization and labeling with one of us mere mortals, a sci-fi fan who feels constrained from expressing her fandom because of her gender. I hope that this play can deliver on some of that promise of the sci-fi genre: the opening of possibilities and the expanding of the imagination."

This show opens on Saturday the 14th, just in time for the opening weekend party, and then performs the 16th, 20th, and 22nd. Tickets, as always, available here at Brown Paper Tickets.

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