THE FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL is Now On Film
The lineup includes Nigel, Guys, and Dolls by Doug DeVita, How cold is the snow by Nathaniel Foster and more.
For nearly two decades, The Fresh Fruit Festival, presented by All Out Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to bringing together the diverse artistic, organizational, political and financial resources of the LGBTQ community in order to fight intolerance, has celebrated the LGBTQ community's unique perspective, creativity & diversity, and to build links between the LGBTQ artistic communities, in New York, across the country and around the world.
Responding to the need for social distancing, Fresh Fruit created LGBTQ MONOLOGUES: The Ache for Home. This project is based on the Maya Angelou quote, "The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
Filmed solo pieces relating to the LGBTQ experience, will be presented online (dates TBA) on a high-definition platform for a set span of 1 to 2 weeks, during which the public will be free to vote for later audience choice awards. A panel of judges will also be voting on more technical criteria to help select three finalists, who will receive a cash stipend and be eligible for awards in several categories at the festival's annual award ceremony later in the season.
The line-up includes:
Nigel, Guys, and Dolls by Doug DeVita
How cold is the snow by Nathaniel Foster
Christmas Cantata by Craig Winberry
Stay as long as you like by Sebastian Timpe
One Night in Lisbon by Manuel Igrejas
Ado by olaiya olayemi
Phonecalls and Codewords by Dena Igusti
Guest of Honor by Tain Leonard-Peck
red or white by Rachel Herron
Uncovered by Sydney Haas
The event is curated by Rachel Kara Perez (she/they/Rae), an award-winning Queer, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx multidisciplinary artist/educator/adoptee-advocate who views the arts as an invaluable vehicle for healing and building community. Her work is as diverse as she is: theatre artist, vocalist, mover, writer, and poet, with work spanning multiple genres, contexts, and locales. She is the recipient of the Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship from the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) and is an EMERGENYC artist with The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.
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Broadway Magic Hour Broadway Comedy Club (1/01-6/30) |
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The Braata Singers in Concert: All We A One A.R.T./NY (6/26-6/28) |
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Cock East Village Basement (6/17-6/28) |
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Miss Julie Gene Frankel Theatre (6/24-6/28) |
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Operatini™ — A Boutique Opera & Live Music Series Presents: La Dolce Vita Green Room 42 (6/26-6/26) |
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Shrek, the Musical! Emelin Theater (7/09-7/12) |
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SpinQueen™ Brooklyn Art Haus (7/07-7/08) |
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The City Speaks: How New Yawkahs Tawk Studio Dérive (6/14-6/28) |
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Who We Become: One-Act Plays by Lanford Wilson Factory Series at the Chain Studio Theatre (6/25-6/27) |
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waiting: a queer black tragicomedy in two acts The Flea Theatre (6/25-6/26) |
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