yo ho.
Aboard Calico Jack’s pirate ship, Andy & Mark are drawn to each other through mutual attraction, shared trauma, and a love of games, especially Marco Polo. They meet in a closet to hook up, but discover that they have been hiding a dangerous secret: they’re actually... Anne Bonny & Mary Read. This revelation forces them to carry on a genderqueer love story in the shadows - Anne, exploring her bisexuality for the first time & Mary, discovering that they’re trans. As they are chased and haunted by a myriad of men including Jack (the polyamorous, drag questioning captain), James (Anne’s ex-husband), Chad (a mysterious crewmate who knows too much), The Governor (a pirate hunter with a lengthy body count), & Reverend Thomas (a Reverend who doesn’t like pirates… or trans people), Anne & Mary must become their truest selves before their inevitable capture and ensuing demise.
Read the current draft here.
CURRENTLY
yo ho. will continue to be developed through the 2024 Intensive Mentorship with the Latinx Playwrights Circle. SMJ will be mentored by playwright CQ. The program will culminate with a reading in NYC in Fall 2024. More information will be announced.
The first public staged reading of yo ho. will be featured in The Tank’s Pridefest 2024 on Friday, June 21st at 7:00pm. Emily Bubeck directs the reading. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here. Casting will be announced soon.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
yo ho. was read on Zoom as a part of The Artist Co-Op’s Cold Read Residency. The reading was directed by Emily Bubeck, produced by Steph Miller, and featured Hawley Gould, Kayla Zanakis, Joan Milburn, and Chloé Lexia Worthington.
The first Equity reading of yo ho. was on October 14, 2022, at The Chain Theatre in NYC as a part of The Artist Co-Op’s Cold Read Residency. The reading was directed by Emily Bubeck, produced by Steph Miller, and featured Hawley Gould, Kayla Zanakis, Joan Milburn, Katie Lynn Sinicki, and Tony Nominee Jordan Donica.
yo ho. was developed through The Workshop Theater’s Winter 2023 Intensive from January to March 2023.
A private reading of yo ho. was held at the Dramatists Guild Foundation on April 13, 2023. The reading was directed by Emily Bubeck and featured Lais DeSouza, Natalia Urzua, Stevie Jae Davis, Mackenzie Moyer, and E.B. Hinnant.
yo ho. has been a Finalist/Honorable Mention for the 2023 Parity Development Award, a semifinalist for the 2023-2024 Van Lier New Voices Fellowship at Rattlestick Theater, a semifinalist for Normal Ave’s 2023 NAPSeries, and a finalist for Et Alia’s 2023 Theater Lab & the 2023 New Roots Residency at Walhalla Farms.
Staged Reading with The Artist Co-op, October 2022
