Paradiso

by Jimmy Fay '26 MFA
co-directed by Beckett Warzer PhD candidate and Jimmy Fay '26 MFA

Saturday, May 4: 11:00 AM
Sunday, May 5: 2:00 PM
 

Tickets will be available online beginning
at 9AM the morning of each performance. 

Ashamu Dance Studio
83 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912

A scarf flaps in the wind at the gay beach. There’s been a catastrophe. Our hero (trans) is dead, and when he gets to heaven, his mom is there. No, actually, it’s his mom’s heaven. And it’s a library. It’s… hell? Maybe, but at least there’s stuff to read?

Jimmy Fay (they/them) is an MFA candidate at Brown. They are a poet, playwright, director and performer based in Brooklyn, NY and Providence, RI. Most recently, they directed a production of Twelfth Night set in a queer bar featuring an all queer/trans* cast with support from the Mellon Foundation, with whom they were a Public Humanities fellow during the 2021-2022 season. Their plays have been performed at Hunter College, the Davenport Theater, Chain Theater, the Producer’s Club and others. Their films have played multiple international film festivals, including the Los Angeles International Film Festival and the Portland Film Festival. They are also the author of the chapbook THE GOD SIZD HOLE, published by SLAB press. Select other poetry publications include Panoplyzine, GASHER Journal, Leak Magazine and Sinister Wisdom. They have held residences with Arts on Site and Beam Center on Governors Island. By day, they are an educator and public historian at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and a member of Close Friends Collective, a queer history collective based in New York. They write about queer history and queer future.

Beckett Warzer is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Brown studying psychoanalysis on the left, and a trans fag.