God Save The Queer

An Irons in the Fire Project

March 11, 2022 @ 4:00pm

Written by Zackary Grady
Directed by Portia Krieger

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Synopsis

In the year 2046, Prince George is now in his thirties, married to a man, and next in line for the British throne. But when he and his husband share news with his sister Princess Charlotte and his brother Prince Louis, a sibling fight breaks out that could destroy not only their family, but one of the last surviving monarchies in the world.

Performed By

Seth Clayton
Mary McCann
Keshav Moodliar
Mallory Portnoy
Michael Urie
Mark Yowakim (Stage Directions)

Stage Manager: Hannah Sgambellone 

Playwright

ZACKARY GRADY [he/him] As a playwright, Zackary’s work has been produced in NYC, regionally, and internationally. His play Toe Pick, in which he starred as Tonya Harding, began at Ars Nova and later ran at Dixon Place. He created the immersive production Travis, which had multiple runs at Ars Nova and transferred to the American Repertory Theater in Boston. His site-specific Dead Letter Office was produced inside the James Farley Post Office in Manhattan. He also helped bring a Mandarin-language production of Peter Pan to Beijing, China. As an actor, Zackary has worked off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company, regionally with the Williamstown Theater Festival and McCarter Theater, and he graduated from NYU. Later this year, his short film Island Queen, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Rachel Dratch, will be released. www.thackarybinx.com

Director

PORTIA KRIEGER [she/her] is a New York-based theater director who mostly works on new plays and musicals. Favorite productions include Olivia Dufault’s The Tomb of King Tot (Clubbed Thumb - New York Times Critic’s Pick!), Susan Bernfield's Tania in the Getaway Van (The Pool), Deborah Zoe Laufer's Be Here Now (Cincinnati Playhouse), Sofia Alvarez’s Friend Art (2ST Uptown), Sarah Einspanier's The Convent of Pleasure (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Caroline V. McGraw's The Bachelors (Lesser America), Clare Barron's Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb), and Eager to Lose, a burlesque farce Portia co-created with writer Matthew-Lee Erlbach, director Wes Grantom, and burlesque starlet Tansy (Ars Nova).

Portia has workshopped new plays and musicals with the O'Neill/National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, 2ST, Roundabout Underground, New York Stage & Film, Rattlestick, Page 73, Ars Nova, the Lark, the Juilliard School, NYMF, and many others. She has been an inaugural O'Neill/NNPN National Director's Fellow, a member of the Civilians R&D group, a New Georges Audrey Resident, a member of the Drama League Directors Project and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and an Ars Nova Director-in Residence. She was the Associate Director of Fun Home on Broadway. She is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist and a co-founder of the New Georges Jam. Education: BA in Theater, Smith College. www.portiakrieger.com

Poster Art by Sean Devare
Photography by Valerie Terranova