Fresh Fruit Festival 2024

The Fresh Fruit Festival – 2024
Monday April 22nd – Sunday May 5th


The Fresh Fruit Festival is presented by All Out Arts to celebrate the LGBTQ community’s unique perspective, creativity & diversity, and to build links between the LGBTQ artistic communities, be they local or international.

Café Americano
by Joshua Piper

FRIDAY 4/26 at 6:30 pm; SATURDAY 4/27 at 8:00 pm ; SUNDAY 4/28 at 7:45 pm

Texas – a young, accomplished playwright/actor/tv-writer still reeling from the premature death of his husband has fled from New York to Paris to attempt writing his next play amidst his grief. Meeting a barista’s husband complicates his world.

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Clara & Carmilla
by Aidan Pauer

WEDNESDAY 4/24 at 6 pm; THURSDAY 4/25 at 8:45 pm; SATURDAY 4/27 at 8:00 pm

Clara (she/they) discovers a vampire novel written before Dracula which follows a sapphic relationship between the vampire Carmilla and the main characters. Clara becomes obsessed with the novel and one night actually starts to see Carmilla.

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Ercolé & Megara: A Couple’s Journey
by Lester Cook
A Staged Reading, Special Event

SUNDAY 4/28 at 12:30 pm.

A multi-media Staged Reading of the fascinating emotional journey taken by a Lesbian couple, each in the act of “transitioning” – one physically, one emotionally. Can they find their voices both as a couple and independently?

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The Memory Of
by Rachel Schulte

TUESDAY 4/23 at 6:30 pm; THURSDAY 4/25 at 6:30 pm; SATURDAY 4/27 at 3:30 pm

We begin in a memory. The past slowly melts into the present where we see Renee, perhaps grieving Brianna’s death, and struggling to make a decision: should she take her own life or somehow move on.

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Non-Disclosure
by Remy Van Collen

MONDAY 4/22 at 7:00 pm; WEDNESDAY 4/24 at 8:00 pm; SATURDAY 4/27 at 1 pm

Iggy Mitzner, a non-binary Los Angeles Public School Teacher, has been dating movie star Fenway Cooper for a year now, and not a soul knows about it. Then Fenway’s new film role complicates the arrangement.

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Bigfoot, Angels and a Girl: 3 1-Act plays
FRIDAY 4/26 at 8:45 pm; SUNDAY 4/28 at 5:30 pm

An Angel, A Demon and a Totally Religious Holiday – by Rhys Collins
The Guy Who Killed Bigfoot – by Courtney Taylor
Not That Kind of Girl – by Zee Bendici

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1001 Nights: Love Stories on Death Row
by Olga El

WEDNESDAY 5/1, THURSDAY 5/2, FRIDAY 5/3, All at 8:15 pm.

Legendary storyteller Scheherazad, reborn as Shezadi – a queer, immigrant mother and abuse survivor – shares stories about her life, and folklore from her culture, in order to remain sane during her imprisonment and impending execution. Don’t miss this multi-media musical with live music & dance.

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Board of Ed
by Richard Spitaletta

MONDAY 4/29 at 8 pm; WEDNESDAY 5/1 at 6 pm; SATURDAY 5/4 at 1 pm

A comedy following Connor and Dana, two aimless millennials as they go from serving at a gastropub to whipping up a chaotic run for the Board of Education in Allendale, New Jersey.

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Goddess of the Hunt
by Doug DeVita

TUESDAY 4/30 at 6:30 pm; SATURDAY 5/4 at 6:30 pm; SUNDAY 5/5 at 4:15 pm

A light comedy about dark people leading private lives in public places.

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How To Break Up A Wedding
by Katharine McNair

THURSDAY 5/2 at 6:30 pm; SATURDAY 5/4 at 3:15 pm; SUNDAY 5/5 at 2:30 pm

Three sisters who, despite their differences, deliciously collaborate and carry out every possible plot, plan, and antic scheme to break up their brother’s wedding.

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La Pucelle
by Adam O’Connell

A folk retelling of the final days of the life of Joan of Arc, through a uniquely trans allegory.

MONDAY 4/29 at 6:30 pm; TUESDAY 4/30 at 8:30 pm; SATURDAY 5/4 at 5:00 pm

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the 2024 Slam LGBT Poetry Contest 

TUESDAY 4/23 at 8:30 pm

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4 short but sweet plays

Friday 5/3 at 6 pm; Saturday 5/4 at 8:30 pm

Hand Me Downs – by Dave DeChristopher
*Mending Clothes by Daylight – by David Masello
When A Faggot Finds A Flower – by Jude Cramer
Out – by Matt Morse

When a Faggot Finds a Flower – A fable about a boy who’s sick of his bent wrist, and what he stands to lose by straightening it out. written by Jude Cramer
Mending Clothes by Daylight – Two middle-aged men, friends, meet at an ancient Chinese scroll on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Upon viewing the art, each of the men changes his notion of the other and their relationship. written by David Masello.
Out – High school baseball star Cal is forced to choose between his love for the game and his love for his boyfriend, Ryan. written by Matt Morse.
Hand Me Downs – Dave DeChristopher
Matriarch Mildred is overjoyed at the upcoming wedding of her son Roger to his beau, Craig. But mother and son have very different ideas about one aspect of the ceremony. directed & produced by Shela Xoregos.
the 10-MINUTE PLAYS Contest, Part 3: The Finals! Sunday 5/5 at Noon. Tickets $15

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Our March competitions gave us 8 finalists who now compete for the big prize!

Searching for the Gays – by Monika Orzelowski
YOU + ME: An Exploration of Deceased Identities and Falling In Love In Spite of It – by Mattie Tindall
Caged – by Drew Keil
A Very Public, Very Family Friendly Park Bench – by Mary Darling
Like The Sea – by Raine Grayson
For Sale By Owner by – Sam Turlington
Grave Offense – by Lenny Hort
Doctor Truth – by Sam Affoumado

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