About This Show

Slip into something scandalous and join us for HOT PANTS: An Evening of Queer Shorts.  Expect sweat, sass, and surprises in all the right places. Part of Dixon Place’s HOT Festival, where queer theater bares all and leaves you begging for more.

 

AN ENBY’S GUIDE TO CLOWNING AROUND!

Come one, come all to see the adventures of Kirby the Clown (Kirby Denny)! AN ENBY’S GUIDE TO CLOWNING AROUND! is a campy clown cabaret about the adventures of Kirby as they explore their expression, sexuality, and puberty while navigating the obstacles of living authentically queer. Through their imagination, creativity, and cozy bedroom, we invite audiences to play, draw outside the lines, and connect to their inner childhood clown. Caution – this piece contains wigs, paint, pink, boobs, buffoonery, binders, messes and 2000s pop music. Trigger warnings include absurdist intimacy, partial nudity, strobe/flashing lights, and heavy sound effects.

CLAY WILD MUNLEY (they/he/she) is a nonbinary, queer, interdisciplinary artist, deviser, and intimacy director who creates experimental, absurdist, and whimsical new works. They’re a recent graduate of Pace University within the Theatrical Directing and Women’s and Gender Studies departments. Clay has represented themselves as a creator and movement choreographer for theater, nightlife, and media. Since arriving in the city, they’ve been devising, debuting, and assisting various productions for Off-Broadway theaters – The Tank, Theatrelab, and Mabou Mines. Clay received their Artist Consent Certification through IDC Professionals NYC. As a creator, they focus on telling stories of gender/queer bodies, intimate connection through movement, and conjouring magical world. They’d like to thank the designers of this piece, their trans fellow clowns, and their chaotic muse, Kirby for the creativity, silliness, and memories. They invite audiences to embrace their freak flag and cherish their inner child for AN ENBY’S GUIDE TO CLOWNING AROUND! www.claywildmunley.com | @claywildmunley

Kirby Denny is a queer multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. They graduated from Pace University in 2023 with a degree in acting and have since explored their artistic identity through clowning, devising, film, photography, modeling, and more. This is Kirby’s second rendition of an AN ENBY’S GUIDE.., and they’re so excited to have it be a part of Hot Pants. Special thanks to Clay Wild Munley and everyone else involved! Check them out at kirbydenny.com or on Instagram @k.1.rby

21 Love Pogroms

Inspired by Adrienne Rich’s iconic lesbian epic poem, “21 Love Pogroms” is a surreal, lyrical and timeless drama composed of twenty-one one-minute scenes between two women in love. One a warrior and writer, the other an agoraphobic former performer, they fight for their love in the escalating violence of a nameless war. Through volcano landscapes and burlesque clubs, through kitchens and Eleusinian caves and Manhattan and bridges and battlefields, they travel impossible distances to see if the raptures and ruptures outside and within can be overcome by the sheer force of love.

Grayson May is a playwright, writer, actor and visual artist. They are a co-founder and company playwright of Floor Thirteen Theatrical Laboratory; their four apocalyptic short plays were produced for Floor Thirteen’s inaugural showcase, “Sign of the (End) Times at The Tank” in May 2025. Their one-act “SCRIPTURE” was featured in the 2024 Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season. They are a poetry editor at Bacopa Literary Review, and their writing has been published in numerous journals, including Colorado Review, Ponder Review and Z Publishing House. They are a lifetime member of the Actors Studio’s Playwright-Director Unit and a Writer-in-Residence at Theatre East. In 2024, they received their MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, where they studied playwriting, acting and devising. In their free time, Grayson can be found listening to David Bowie, drinking tea, and looking for bugs.

Lindsey Alterman is a New York-based director and dramaturg. Originally from the west coast, she came to New York to receive her MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. Now she’s the co-founder of her own company, Floor 13, alongside playwright Grayson May. Recent works include Burnout Kingdom: A New Wave Musical (NYTF), Dying for Love (Floor 13), No Light Lives Here (Floor 13), Moonlight Becomes You (The Tank), Why (John DeSotelle Theatre Festival), The Laramie Project (ASDS Repertory Season), Scripture (ASDS Repertory Season), The Edge of Tonight (Equity Library Play Festival), and Reflection of a Shadow (NYTF), the latter two of which were award-winners. She’s grateful to be a part of Hot Theatre Festival this summer!

Anna Medley is a New York City based artist originally from Louisville, KY. She is very thrilled to be part of this piece and festival. Recent credits include Floor 13th’s inaugural festival and “A Bath of Approbation” (Williamsburg Art and Historical Center). All the thanks to Lindsey, Grayson, her friends, family and amazing support system. BFA: Samford University. MFA: Actor’s Studio Drama School. Enjoy the show!

 

How Queer

After a male classmate starts dating a girl, a couples argue if that fellow classmate is gay or straight. As Louis believes the classmate is “gay-baiting” and mocking queer culture, Kaden argues they should not question one’s sexuality. It is a comedic, corny short play about listening to each other and understanding different point of views.

Douglas Mu (he/him) is an actor, stage manager, and playwright. This is his director debut! He is studying Drama and Psychology at NYU Tisch with training at Playwrights Horizons and Experimental Theatre Wing. His experience in stage managing and assistant stage managing is through “21st Century Princess” (The Barn at Lee) and “Bones & Flesh” (Playwrights Studio Project). He thanks Dixon Place for this amazing play festival. His mom would kill him if he didn’t mention her, so love you mom. @dougiemoo_

Jess is a NYC-based writer and theatre artist, and a proud member of the touring sketch group Hammerkatz. Professional debut! His most recent project is as the director of Ape The Immortality, a NYC premiere for Foul Fiend Theatre Troupe. Training: William Esper Studio, Wolf Performing Arts Center. jesseichen.com

Hassan Lee Laing is a rising junior Creative Arts and Theatre Performance Track double major, with a Writing and Communications minor at Siena College, based in Queens New York. Recent roles include: Nathan Detroit in “Guys & Dolls”, Feste in “Twelfth Night”. He received a KCACTF Irene Ryan Acting Award Nomination for both.

Alexa Dailey (she/her) is a rising junior studying drama at NYU Tisch under Playwrights Horizons Theater School and Stella Adler Studio of Acting. See her as Ashley in the short film “Heaven/Neveah” and on the stage at NYU. She is super excited to be stage managing “How Queer”!