Here's a post with a handy list of links to all the entries in my pre-Fringe Top 10 list for the 2024 Minnesota Fringe Festival:
1 - Least Likely To Succeed: Tales From a Midwestern Homeschooler - Tristan MillerNew York based comedian Tristan Miller shares their experience growing up homeschooled in Minnesota!
"Miller's Humor is unique." - The Otago Daily Times
“Captivating And Charming in equal measure" - Art Murmurs
“Surreal, Brilliant, and Highly Relatable." - TheatreReview
2 - What You Need to Do Is!
Bugalug Ink (Eric Simons & Alsa Bruno)
Silly characters, real advice—What You Need to Do Is! is an improvised, life coaching seminar. You ask REAL questions and we help your solve everything from the smallest quibbles to serious GROWN FOLK BUSINESS.
3 - Daddy Issues
Pretend Productions - Allison Vincent
Daddy Issues is a solo show recounting Allison Vincent's caretaking for her father while also negotiating their complicated relationship and the demise of his memory and her childhood home.
4 - Transition: A Story of Two Trans People Becoming Themselves
Emily Boyajian
Two trans people experience the joy of living authentically, face internalized transphobia, overcome their self-doubts to find happiness outside of the gender binary, and sing with music from a live orchestra!
5 - Dream of Me
Team Rand-McKay
Mia, grieving the loss of her husband, begs her friend Tanna to let her try an AI dream device so that she can see him again. But what starts out as romantic turns into a nightmare when the AI has other plans.
6 - They Still Make Film For That?
Dark Roast Arts - Kevin Ealain
AI got you making you feel uneasy? Tired of the digital deluge?! Then They Still Make Film For That? is for you! See a live film development demo and why printed photographs are important to our mental health!
7 - Teen Wolf Killed My Grandma: A Memoir
On Whee Puppet Theatre
A fuzzy look at how fiction can make reality a little more bearable. Watch a family through their matriarch's final chapter while also learning way more than you ever needed about MTV's Teen Wolf.
8 - The Light Bringer
Light Bringer Productions - Laila Lee
An Arab immigrant's true life story of family, freedom, and finding the American Dream!
An examination of the immigrant struggle between alienation and assimilation; against a backdrop of political, religious, and global issues.
9 - Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend: a One-Man Whodunnit
nayXnay productions - Nathan Tylutki
Francis Grey & the Case of His Dead Boyfriend explores family, love, and revenge. How far will Francis go to get justice? Anything could happen. Everyone is a suspect.
The play explores the concepts of family, love, justice, and revenge. Francis is at the top of his game, solving cold-case after cold-case after winning the favor of law enforcement agencies near and far. From INTERPOL to Small Town, USA, there isn’t an agency that is able to resist his charm. When calamity strikes close to home, Francis starts to unravel— is he losing his touch? Is this case too personal? How far will he go to get justice for someone he loves?
10 - Stroke of Genius: Pantomime Masturbation Throughout Performing Arts History -
Boiled Horse Productions
This professor takes "jackin' around" very seriously! Deadpan intellectual social satire meets silly Monty Python buffoonery in this polished multimedia comedy lecture. "Course materials" @ www.BoiledHorse.com.
[Editor’s note: Link totally safe for work. Don’t worry. You’re not clicking through to pictures of a dildo collection or anything]
Here's some handy links to this year's Top 11-20 List, plus the full list of all returning favorites at this year's Fringe, plus a link to all the 2024 Minnesota Fringe Festival coverage.
While I have your attention, please VOTE :)
Minnesota is currently in the early voting period for our Congressional and local primaries (I had the U.S. Senate, Congress, and the Minneapolis school board on my ballot) - final day to vote in the primary is Tuesday, August 13th, but you don't have to wait until Fringe is over, go vote right now :)
Early voting for the Presidential Election itself in Minnesota starts on Friday, September 20th. We're lucky to have a lot of time to get our voices heard, so cast your vote, and then make sure everyone you know and love is registered and gets to the polls to vote. Election Day, your final date to vote, is Tuesday, November 5th.
As a queer playwright and theater maker, I want a government that's compassionate and competent enough to keep us all safe and healthy, keep theaters open and running, and personally, I'd just like to be legal myself and keep the weirdos out of government and out of my personal business (and the things I post on this blog, for instance). We all have our reasons, so let's make sure we get the leaders we need and deserve, and get our friends, family and co-workers to raise their voices, too.
Find where to vote and what's on your ballot (with links to candidate websites) and other resources at the Minnesota Secretary of State's website.
For other resources on how to register, volunteer or donate, locally or nationally, check out Vote Save America.
Vote. Raise your voice. We're not going back.
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