FESTIVAL LINE-UP
All performances run approximately 60 minutes. "Double Features" are composed of two 30 minute pieces. Individual show tickets are $15. All-Access Passes are available for $125. To reserve your All-Access Pass, email daredevilarts@electriclodge.org
Please note that multiple shows will be running concurrently in different performance spaces, so make sure not to double-book your tickets!
WE GET TO GO BACK
BY KENNEDY NIYAH HILL
Sat, 7/12 at 3:30 PM
(Theatre, Physical Theatre, Performance Art, Drama, Immersive)
A Black reinterpretation of the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice unfolds as an older sister battles her way through the underworld, racing against time to save her little brother from eternal damnation.
BRAINWASHED
BY ALINA KONON
Sat, 7/12 at 3:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Performance Art, Clown, Adult (18+))
Brainwashed is a dark comedy based on personal experience growing up in Belarus. Through absurd humor and audience play, it explores how fear and propaganda shape identity under dictatorship.
THE BISCUITEATER
BY JIM LOUCKS
Sat, 7/12 at 5:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Drama)
Drawing on his Southern childhood, Jim Loucks tells the story of a small-town policeman, based loosely on his Granddaddy, who is haunted by his shooting of a man in the line of duty. As he nears the end of his life, he seeks redemption through teaching his grandson to respect life and to respect himself.
DR. HEAD FAKE
OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING ABOUT RODMAN & NORTH KOREA
BY JOSH BERKOWITZ
Sat, 7/12 at 5:30 PM & Sun, 7/13 at 12:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Drama)
Performance artist Josh Berkowitz’s continuation of his sports series, where stream-of-consciousness poetry, contemporary dance, clown and psychodrama all merge. In the world of this performance piece, microcosmic infancy correlates to macrocosmic basketball history. Ultimately, the question of false memory and unreliable narration is Berkowitz’s favorite kind of autobiography, a love of rhythmic dissonance, that is equal parts precise, strategic, anarchistic and ridiculous.
STRANGERS AT THE VET (OR BACON GRIEF)
BY NATE ORR
Sat, 7/12 at 7:00 PM & Sun, 7/13 at 2:00 PM
(Theatre, Comedy, Drama, World Premiere, Adult (18+))
Through a chance encounter, two men commiserate over their dogs. Both pups have brought chaos to their lives and exposed each man’s most base nature, which threatens their familial stability. The answer is obvious: murder each other’s dogs. As the strangers continue down this path, they illuminate their deepest desires and unearth buried emotions. This dark comedy is a modern-day exploration of victimhood, masculinity, one’s purpose, and emotional eating.
OMI TUTU: COOL WATERS / WHEN THE CLOCK STOPS
DOUBLE FEATURE!
BY KIMBERLY MIGUEL MULLEN / BRANDON MAXWELL
Sat, 7/12 at 8:30 PM & Sun, 7/13 at 3:30 PM
One-Person Show, Dance, Performance Art, Immersive, World Premiere, LGBTQ+)
OMI TUTU: COOL WATERS is a dance performance that honors the sacred waters & divine feminine forces of the Yoruba Oricha tradition. This multi-sensory ritual performance is the first movement of a full-length work-in-progress exploring elemental forces, ancestral memory, and embodied spiritual practices of the African Diaspora.
When the Clock Stops is a powerful new dance work that delves into the complex relationship between human beings and time, navigating moments of stillness and chaos, reflecting the ways we measure, chase, and resist the passage of time.
PAIN IS MAN (PENIS MAN)
BY OSCAR FUENTES
Sat, 7/12 at 8:30 PM
(One-Person Show, Clown, Adult (18+))
A one clown show, exploring culture's obsession and shame and lizard brain need to breed. The main character is the embodiment of a ritualistic mating ceremony, dealing with the pain of losing his baby and just trying to get home to his wife and be a good husband.
REVOLUTION WITH RAMÓN:
JOY IS THE RESISTANCE
BY THE RAMÓN SHOW
Sun, 7/13 at 3:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Immersive, Family Friendly, LGBTQ+)
In a time of silenced voices, visibility is power. Join Puerto Rican Drag King Ramón for a joy-fueled comedy show that dares to speak up—and calls on us all to find our lane and werk! Louder than fear. Funnier than oppression. Joy is the resistance.
20/20 + Songs by Livia and Rose Reiner
BY Roxanne Steinberg
Sun, 7/13 at 5:30 PM
(Theatre, Performance Art, Music)
20/20 is a solo performance by Roxanne Steinberg, inspired by a memory of early wonder—a single book held close, a portal to a larger world. Surrounded by the weight we carry, bundled and shifting, nearly spilling, the work moves through memory, matter, and the quiet transmissions held in what we choose to keep.
Through accumulation and interruption, the performance offers inadvertent glimpses, flickering between visibility and invisibility, presence and disappearance. It meditates on the porous boundaries between past and present, clarity and blur, the seen and the felt. In a time when what we can touch is increasingly devalued—either burdened with excess or discarded without ceremony—20/20 lingers in the dilemma between having and vanishing, between substance and erasure.
Opening the show, sisters Livia and Rose Reiner share their original music.
TRANS MOM VS. FAMILY COURT:
JUSTICE SEES NO GENDER
Sat, 7/12 at 7:00 PM
Chronicling her transition to trans-mother while simultaneously fighting for custody rights in 1995 without an attorney. She is sharing her custody battle for the first time publicly to help reframe trans stereotypes and empower the community and allies against dishonest rhetoric and discriminatory legislation.
Her story highlights how transgender parents face discriminatory scrutiny in custody battles, where ‘best interest of the child’ is often weaponized against them based solely on gender identity.
