The Tank Announces Lineup Of Performers For 2018 PrideFest

The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) will present PrideFest 2018 from June 27-30 in both the 56-seat and 99-seat spaces at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues). The festival will feature new shows by Jessie Field, Kev Berry, Matthew Mirliani, Marjorie Conn, Julien Zotique, Julie Moore & Ania Upstill, and Rodrigo Nogueira. Tickets ($0-$15) may be purchased in advance at www.thetanknyc.org.

NACHOMOx
Wednesday, June 27 @ 7pm
$10 advance/$15 at the door
NACHMOx is a condensed version of National Choreography Month. NACHMOx continues the spirit of creation where pieces are created and shared in the spirit of all things fun, fresh, and fair! Choreographers and dancers who have never met are paired together to create a brand spanking new dance. June 27th's NACHMOx will have an LLGBTQIA+ theme with a twist! Interested in participating as a dancer or choreographer? Check thetank.org & nachmo.org for sign up details starting on June 13th. See what can be created in a week at The Tank!

A Faggot's Theology
Written & Performed by Kev Berry
Thursday, June 28 & Friday, 29 @ 7pm
$15
Playwright and performance artist Kev Berry's A Faggot's Theology is a searing examination of his own queer sexuality and a personal plea for the existence of gods in a world where it's nearly impossible to believe. What does it mean to believe in God as a gay man? What does it mean to not believe in God as a gay man? And if the gods are out there, what do they think of the mess we've made? This quirky and honest Catholic Mass for One carefully balances these big questions with playful lightness and a heavy pour of bourbon.

La Maupin
Book & Lyrics by Jessie Field, Music by Jared Field, Directed by Michele O'Brien
Thursday, June 28 & Friday, June 29 @ 9:30pm
$12
Julie d'Aubigny. Swordswoman. Opera Singer. Rogue. Notorious bisexual. In ?La
Maupin? this creature of legend lives again, in a fast-paced musical adventure. At her peak, Julie was a force to be reckoned with - bashing bigots, tumbling chambermaids, and taking on some of Opera's most iconic roles, from Pallas Athena to Dido. But under the legend there is a woman before her time. A woman trying to navigate an austere world that never quite made sense to her. Accounts vary; was she a lunatic or a martyr? A hero or a cautionary tale? Only one fact goes undisputed about Julie d'Aubigny, La Maupin: She is a legend.

Big Gay Dance Show
Created by Marc Andrew Nuñez
Friday, June 29 @ 7pm
$15
Gotham Dance Theater (GDT) and The Tank NYC present The 3rd Annual Big Gay Dance Show featuring dance and theatre works created by members of the LGBTQ+ community as part of The Tank's annual PrideFest. Curated by gay, gay, gay-sian Marc Andrew Nuñez. All proceeds will go toward Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Holy Ground: A Tale of Queer Love & Identify
Written & Directed by Matthew Mirliani
Friday, June 29 @ 9:30pm
$7
In a one-man musical, a 24-year-old juggles the joys and challenges of being a gay man with the guilt of a conservative past.

Limbo Lounges
Written by Marjorie Conn, Directed by Shela Xoregos
Presented by Provincetown Fringe Festival
Saturday, June 30 @ 3pm
FREE
Famous and infamous dead souls (including Federico Garcia Lorca, Tennessee Williams, Elia Kazan, Lizzie Borden, Marilyn Monroe, Katy Dierlam) prowl the many areas of the hereafter.

Real
Written by Rodrigo Nogueira
Saturday, June 30 @ 3pm
FREE
Real is a play in two voices: Dominique is a straight upper class white woman who lives in Manhattan with her husband and no kids. After reading a play she found in her apartment, she went back to playing and a musical instrument she used to when she was younger. Dominic is a young gay immigrant who lives in Manhattan and struggles with being an artist. He began composing a fugue after he started having a recurring dream. Through the course of the play, the audience finds out Dominique is reading about a young composer who's writing a fugue. While Dominic is dreaming about a middle aged woman who is playing one.

An Interview with Peggy Guggenheim
Music, Lyrics & Book by Julien Zotique
Saturday, June 30 @ 7pm
$5
An Interview With Peggy Guggenheim is a monologue in musical form delivered by Peggy Guggenheim - the woman who was benefactress to Jackson Pollack and shocked the art world with her avant-garde taste and independent outlook. This musical play is a meditation on what it meant to be a woman navigating the art world in the 1900's, and what it means to be an independent mind searching for meaning in a fragmented world. For one night only, Miss Guggenheim will take to the stage to reflect on her life and her legacy.

Piesexual
Created and Performed by Julie Moore & Ania Upstill
Presented by Queerly Quixotic
Saturday, June 30 @ 7pm
$15
Piesexual, a queer clown show, is a messy, absurd and fun-filled explosion of gender performance and queer sexuality - all through the lens of that favorite American treat, PIE! Ingredients include acrobatics, music, irreverence, red noses and copious amounts of flour. Piesexual explores the delicious, messy and projectile nature of being queer, mostly female and seriously into pie.

The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter serving emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. We serve over 2,000 artists every year in over 400 performances, and work across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, public affairs, and storytelling. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the burden of cost from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in our 98 seat proscenium and 56 seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other services such as free rehearsal space, promotional support, artist fees, and much more. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all.

Past Tank produced-work includes Drama Desk-nominated productions Ada/Ava (2016), youarenowhere (2016), The Paper Hat Game (2017), the ephemera trilogy (2017), and The Hunger Artist (2018), as well as New York Times Critics' Pick The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman, directed by Meghan Finn (2016). Since its founding in 2003, artists who have come through The Tank include Alex Timbers, Amy Herzog, Lucy Alibar, Mike Daisey, Reggie Watts, Kyle Abraham, Andrew Bujalski, We Are Scientists, and tens of thousands of others. www.thetanknyc.org

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