Riot Queens

Note: This event is a reading.

synopsis: 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.

About Mikki Gillette:

Mikki Gillette is a trans woman playwright. She was named one of Portland, OR’s 25 Most Influential Artists by Willamette Week magazine. Her play American Girl was featured in American Theatre and was produced in April ‘23. Other productions include The Queers (Fuse Theatre ’22), My Perfectly Valid Objections (Salt and Sage ’23) and They Them Their (Fuse Theatre ’23). Mikki’s short Intimate Matters was published in Smith & Kraus’s collection, The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2023. She was a member of the Ashland New Plays Festival 2022 New Voices Cohort. Learn more at: mikkigillette.com.