LGBTQ+ Best Scene: FOULED OUT, by Rodrigo Varandas

Ricardo’s dad is a big shot basketballer who only wants the best for him. However, what his dad wants and what Ricardo wants are totally different. With his mother passed on, Ricardo and his dad Jorge are trying to spend more time together. But a surprise visit leaves Ricardo’s hidden life exposed.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Laura: Val Cole
Ricardo: Shawn Devlin

LGBTQ+ Festival Scene: GOLD, MYRRH, FRANKINCENSE & MURDER, by Hary S. Mudaliar

Ben-Hur meets To Wong Fu in this whirlwind adventure when a time traveling priest, devoted to the blood cult of Cybele threatens the life of Jesus both past and future unless the Three Magi, with a propensity for being tardy, can stop him. The fact that the Magi are gay adds an inclusive spin on faith at this time of division in our world.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Arkaban: Shawn Devlin
Murat: Sean Ballantyne

LGBTQ+ Festival SHORT Script Reading: THE GREAT BIG LESBIAN YANKEE SWAP

Aging lesbian couple Debbie and Jean are hosting their annual gay Christmas party in the gayborhood of Boston — but when their messy adult son Corey (30) shows up in need of a place to live, he threatens to disrupt their retirement plans.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Sean Ballantyne
Mary Ellen/Barb/Daryl: Val Cole
Corey: Geoff Mays
Debbie/Trish: Hannah Ehman
Jean/Luisa/Paula: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

LGBTQ+ Festival First Scene: The Urning – Life and Times of a Gay Rights Pioneer, by Christopher M Halligan

“Hambach Awakening” – Pilot episode of a limited series on the life and times of Karl Heinrichs Ulrichs – a German gay rights pioneer and scholar who wrote the first queer theory known to the LGBTQ movement, published the first gay magazine, and used his privilege and law degree to go into battle for those who were being prosecuted for their sexuality, as well as take on the conservative Prussian government’s hateful homophobic sodomy laws, with the conviction that every human being has a right to live their truth and pursue their happiness in love and life. His efforts would get him thrown in prison twice, and ultimately exiled from his beloved Germany.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Geoff: Shawn Devlin
Karl; Geoff Mays