Riot Queens

Riot Queens follows the lives of three young trans women in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco in the months leading up to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot of 1966, a queer uprising that predated Stonewall by three years. Dixie advocates for queer rights as a member of Vanguard, an activist group for street youth. Haley is a sex worker with a traumatic past who fears that the changes taking place will threaten the precarious life she's built, and Nina is torn between the life she can envision for herself, and the debt she feels she owes her community.

(Parts for 4 trans women, and 2 cis men)

Reading - Twilight Theatre, 2024