What Happens To Boys In Chelsea
a choreopoem written and performed by Ryan
United Solo Theatre Festival 2018
Synopsis
When Foster Lawrence was eighteen years old he fell from a fifth floor window in Manhattan and does not know how. This incident served as his coming out as gay/queer. Ten years later, he attempts to “connect the dots” in finding out what happened that night.
Performance History
What Happens To Boys In Chelsea was first performed at The Karcher,
a hair salon in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The work was an Official Selection of the United Solo Theatre Festival 2018
where it had its off-Broadway debut at Theatre Row.
Other showings include:
Club Cumming; Alan Cumming's cabaret venue in the East Village
New York's LGBTQ Center with the New Masculinities Festival 2019
SAGE (Service and Advocacy for Gay Elders) in midtown Manhattan
Tilles Center For The Performing Arts at Post of Long Island University
The Triad Theatre; an off-Broadway theatre in Manhattan
Theatre 80 with Naked Angels’ Tuesdays@9
The Green Room 42 as a part of Tom March's Cabaret/Poetry