🎟️ tickets are ON SALE for SWAN, a dreamscape of queer & trans revelry and re-imagining of Swan Lake I wrote that premieres in Moonbox Productions’ 2023 Boston New Works Festival on June 22, 24, and 25! Get tickets: bit.ly/swantix

🌈 QUEERNESS + MONSTROSITY = LIBERATION. 🖤

✨ SHOW DATES

Thursday, June 22 at 7:30pm

Saturday, June 24 at 5:30pm and 8:30pm

Sunday, June 25 at 8pm

✨ SYNOPSIS 

If you had to give up everything you knew, everyone you loved, to be something you didn’t understand…would you? SWAN follows Richard, a 3rd gen Korean American gay trans guy, who flips off his bigoted grandma with the help of his gym bro brother and a snide Disney villain voice in the back of his head who might also be the god of transness (or something). Aiden, a twenty-something white closeted trans guy and moderately YouTube-famous tradwife, spends his days burying his feelings in jello (it’s giving 1950s horrors) and also being haunted by the aforementioned god. Oh, and there’s Brad, a Korean-American closeted cis gay guy whose parents are so fresh off the boat, they still smell like clams. Aiden and Richard are forced to confront their fears of the future, the queerness they’ve buried, and their need to be who they truly are, even if that means becoming monstrous.

SWAN asks: what if we are free to be monstrous and unknowable? To make out with the biblically accurate angel & become it? What would it be like to find queer transcendence? & keep going? 

✨ SWAN is the winner of the 2022 Phyllis Anderson Award for Playwriting from The American Repertory Theater and a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. SWAN was previously workshopped by The Theater Offensive in the inaugural Emergent Artist Residency.

✨written by Sophie Kim

✨directed by Kai Chao

✨assistant directed by Vinny Douglass

✨stage managed by Micaela Slotin