Stage Voices

In support of LGBTQ+ people of color, a portion of donations & ticket sales will be donated to: Ali Forney Center, Audre Lorde Project, Black Visions Collective, Destination Tomorrow, Gays Against Guns, INCITE!, Marsha P. Johnson institute, National Black Justice Coalition, NY Transgender Advocacy Group, The Okra Project and more.

The HOT Festival is made possible w/public funds from NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs w/the City Council and NY State Council on the Arts w/the support of Gov Andrew Cuomo & the NY State Legislature; and donors like you.

PREMIERE ON YOUTUBE

HAND WASH

Jeff McMahon

Frenemies share a fret-over via Zoom. Social Distances (camera-close): new short works written & directed by Jeff McMahon.

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LIVE ON ZOOM

A Socially Acceptable Breakdown

Patrick Roche

Acclaimed poet Patrick Roche blends storytelling, poetry, dance and comedy, challenging us to find connection and laughter through our many breakdowns.

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Experiments & Disorders Goes Virtual

Sur Rodney (Sur) and Bishakh Som

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.

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LIVE ON ZOOM!

Spanking Machine

written & performed by Marga Gomez

directed by Adrian Alexander Alea

In “Spanking Machine” GLAAD Award-winning writer/performer Marga Gomez shifts across gender, latitudes and generations in a darkly comic memoir about the first boy she ever sloppy-kissed and how it made them gay forever. “His real name was Agamemnon Perez Jr. but he shortened it to “Scotty” because he thought Agamemnon sounded too Cuban.” By turns funny and disturbing, Gomez recounts growing up brown and queer in Washington Heights, sadistic nuns on poppers, tender vampires, childhood misdemeanors, parental post-nasal drip, fear, assault and suppressed memory. The 70-minute show will blend Marga performing live from her “virtual stage” with footage from Spanking Machine’s final invited dress rehearsal before the pandemic.

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