"...slyly riotous and dazzlingly reconceived..." -- The Hollywood Reporter

Femmes: A Tragedy is a contemporary comedy about queer femme identity. Partially inspired by Clare Boothe Luce’s 1936 play, The Women, Femmes is the story of a painful public breakup set against the backdrop of modern urban lesbian (sub)culture(s).

When the curator of a burlesque show is dumped by her girlfriend for a hot bartender named Callie, her friends-- an activist, an academic and a party promoter-- are thrown into gossip and competition despite their best feminist intentions. With an iPhone app as a catalyst, the gossip spreads from friends to social media to the community at large, along the way satirizing and celebrating the diverse history of queer femme identity and questioning the ways butch/femme relationships do or don't replicate heterosexual stereotypes. Ultimately, everything leads to a showdown between Marigold and Callie— at a burlesque show in which each character performs burlesque routines deconstructing modern femininity.

Two acts, 8 actors.

Femmes: A Tragedy won the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting and was presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference with feminist performance icon Holly Hughes in a starring role.