Yet You’re A Virgin (And So Am I)

From a young age, Queer kids are sold the idea that it gets better. But what happens when you’re in college and are still gay, miserable, and annoying? Yet You’re A Virgin (And So Am I) is a two-person comedy following co-dependent best friends, Kaden and Madeline, who have yet to get laid (contrary to the fantastical notion of gay adulthood Tumblr had promised them). Entrenched in internet culture and unwaveringly sex positive (at least in theory…), is a love letter to gay/lesbian solidarity and the found family that comes with it.

Madeline Steck & Kaden Bütts are an actor, writer, comedy duo, but our most notable achievement is that we’re the only Welcome Week friendship that ever actually stayed in touch. We wrote Yet You’re A Virgin (And So Am I) largely in response to our casting types. Whether we were pigeonholed as the Manic-Pixie-Ingenue-Girl-Nextdoor or the FABULOUS Boa-Wearing AIDS Patient (You can probably guess who’s who), we started questioning the idea of what we were “supposed” to want versus who we actually wanted to be onstage. We resolved that we wanted to create theatre that represented Gen Z queerness, didn’t take itself too seriously, and created a space where gay people didn’t always have to be palatable. Thus, our work together is an embrace of our younger selves, with everything we once thought to be embarrassing now fueling us. In short, Yet You’re A Virgin (And So Am I) is a reclamation of artistic agency and sense of self… which for us just so happens to be growing up gay and chronically online.