ALREADY A LEGACY OF EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES OF IMPORTANT WORK

 The series will open with LIGHT SWITCH, the hilarious and heartbreaking  story of an autistic gay man's journey toward love and acceptance over  the span of twenty years. LIGHT SWITCH is by Dave Osmundsen, an autistic  gay writer. It premiered in 2022 at the Spectrum Theatre Ensemble, a  Providence, Rhode Island company with a mission to serve neurodiverse  actors and playwrights and audiences, including those with sensory  concerns. Michael D. Graham (director of Open Space Arts’ ROSENBERG)  will return to direct LIGHT SWITCH. 

LIGHT SWITCH will open to the public and the press on Friday, September 13 and extended through October 13,  2024.

 The series will continue in November with PLOT POINTS IN OUR SEXUAL  DEVELOPMENT, by Miranda Rose Hall. The play, which premiered in 2018 in  New York City at Lincoln Center’s LCT3, is a two-character play about  the breakup of a love affair between a cisgender lesbian and a  self-described “genderqueer trans person who is not a woman and is not a  man, but is kind of a man, who loves lesbian jokes.”  THE NEW YORK  TIMES’ Jesse Green said it was “never less than intriguing… Transgender  people deserve to see that joy onstage. And lots of other people can  share the feeling by analogy.” 

PLOT POINTS IN OUR SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT will be directed by Teri Talo. 

Date of opening night TBA.

 The third play in the series will be the dark comedy MERCY KILLING, by  Alandra Heilman. The play, which premiered in 2018 at the Awesome  Theatre Company of Oakland, California, concerns Mercy, a barista who is  also a serial killer, and her girlfriend. Greta Zandstra will direct. 

MERCY KILLING will open to the public and the press on Friday, November 1, and play through November 17, 2024. 

 QUEER EXPRESSION will conclude its 2024-25 series with a 40th Anniversary production of William Hoffman’s AS IS. AS IS portrays the  effect that AIDS, a relatively new epidemic at the time in the 1980s,  has on a group of friends living in New York City. It was one of the  early plays and subsequent TV movies depicting how the epidemic was  affecting gay Americans. 

AS IS opened on Broadway in March 1985, shortly  before Larry Kramer's play THE NORMAL HEART opened. It ran for eight  months on Broadway and was later produced as a television film. It won  the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play and was nominated for the  Tony Award for Best Play. Michael D. Graham will direct the Open Space  Arts production. 

Date of opening night TBA.