48-Hour One-Act Festival

A small series of one-act plays, written, rehearsed, and performed within one singular weekend.

Join us for a thrilling evening of brand-new queer theater! Over one whirlwind weekend, LGBTQ+ artists will write, rehearse, and stage original one-act plays — culminating in a one-night-only showcase of fresh storytelling.

Expect the unexpected (we don't even know what's in store!): bold creativity, heartfelt moments, and a beautifully chaotic celebration of queer/trans experience! This is your chance to see the final results of an incredible 48-hour creative sprint, performed live on stage.

Don’t miss this one-night-only event — grab your tickets now and experience the magic of queer theater in the making!

Tickets Here!

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48- Hours Digital Program

This show runs about 90 minutes with no intermission.

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Production Team

Producer: Raminta Holden

Stage Manager: Ray Malloy

Assistant Stage Manager: Correy Denihan

Lighting Designer: Stel Stein

Sound Designer: Emily Gheewalla

Costumes/Set Manager/Stage Hand: Carson (Sonny) Morrissey

Props Manager/Stage Hand: Aurora La Veglia

Props Manager/Stage Hand: Sasha Tekeian

Social Media Promoter: Caitlin

Fight & Fall Coordinator: Layne Alexandra

Tech Assistant: Elliot Lee

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Emcee: Layne Alexandra

Short Scenes

Writers: Hannah Leven & Nora Katz

Director: Sky

Actors: Collin Smith, Savannah Paul, Fionn Shea

One-Act A

Writers: Emit Solomon & Rachael Beaumont

Director: Adrien Callahan

Actors: Nikita Potnis, Sabrina Liberatore, Emit Solomon

One-Act B

Writers: gel. & Aiden Butler

Director: Aubrey Krebs

Actors: Emmalyn Zeppi, EZRA, Caspian Williamson, Erica, Aaron Olkin

Special Thanks To:

Jack Torres, Raechel Segal, Dani McPeak

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Meet the Qompany!

Aaron Olkin

(he/him)

Aaron can usually be found skulking around the lighting booth, except for tonight as he returns to the stage for the first time in a decade.

Adrien Callahan

(he/him)

Adrien's back still hurts from the weight of being the only he/him in Q-Sketch.

Film Instagram

Personal Instagram

Aidan Butler

(he/him)

Aidan is a theatre lover and maker who will be drinking enough red bull over this 48 hours to kill him; wake to follow festival.

Instagram

Aubrey Krebs

(she/her)

i was signing up for a website, and i wanted to set my password to “beef stew”, but they wouldn’t let me. they said it wasn’t stronganoff.

Trout

Aurora La Veglia

(she/they)

Aurora is a former theatre kid and current lesbian who is still recovering from last year's 48-hour festival!

Caitlin

(she/her)

Your local astrophysicist

Tiktok

Carson (Sonny) Morrissey

(they/he)

Carson is a professional Literally Just Some Guy, and can also be found gallivanting around Boston as Sonny Daze, notable drag artist and occasional horse.

Instagram

Drag Instagram

Caspian Williamson

(they/them)

Caspian is an amalgamation of various types of beans, libraries, and the ghosts of a 70 year old man and a small Victorian child.

Collin Smith

(they/them)

Collin Smith (They/Them) is a director/actor/playwright who probably hasn't seen your favorite movie but is taking recommendations!

New Play Exchange

Correy Denihan

(he/him)

Correy is a wearer of many theatrical hats, grower of copious plants, and caretaker of colonies of bugs that are quicky outnumbering him.

Instagram

Elliot Lee

(they)

Elliot will sleep like a dog on the floor, which makes them more amenable than Vic and Kellin.

Instagram

Drag Instagram

Emily Gheewalla

(she/her)

Emily is what would've happened if Troy Bolton was an anxiety-filled bisexual who liked to be behind the stage rather than on it.

Instagram

Emit Solomon

(they/them)

Emit is a multidisciplinary theatre artist who would love to tell you about their other interests and hobbies as well, if they had any, but that's not what their autistic, special interest focused brain allows.

Emmalyn Zeppi

Emmalyn is incredibly excited to be here in her very first QA&P production, but her cat is very confused about why she has been gone so much and needs her to come home RIGHT NOW.

Erica

(they/them)

Erica joined QA&P in 2024, previous roles include Duke Theseus, King Alonso, hot dentist, fake vegan, and Scissor Lounge manager, and in real life, they aspire to be a librarian.

Instagram

EZRA

(they/them)

me and shawty cooking up a nasty slop w some chunks on god

Fionn Shea

(he/they)

Fionn is a writer, actor, and communicator who spends his days attempting to convince state legislatures that feeding kids is important.

Threads

Instagram

Venmo

gel.

(they/them)

Gel is a Boston-based writer, poet, singer, local eccentric and certified thembo.

Hannah Levin

(any)

Hannah spent all their high school and college years sleeping about two hours a night, so they hope it will be healing to do that to write a dumb gay play instead of to do differential equations.

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Jack Torres

(he/they)

Jack is a craft beer enthusiast and a bookworm with a passion for color!

Layne Alexandra

(they/she)

Layne is currently in a competition with all capybaras to claim the title of “world’s largest rodent.”

Instagram

Nikita Potnis

(she/her)

Nikita, as a part of a summer of saying yes, is doing something kind of scary this weekend! Cheer her on!

Nora Katz

(she/her)

Nora has located the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, and the hair as yellow as corn—if anyone has any leads on a slipper as pure as gold, please let her know. 

Website aka www.norakatz.com

Rachael Beaumont

(she/they)

Rachael is a strictly indoor theater kid looking for their forever home: gets along with cats, has a diet of fun cheeses & hot chips, enrichment includes TTRPGs & collecting books she promises she'll read very soon (promise).

Instagram

Raechel Segal

Raechel lost her driver's license.

Website

Raminta Holden

(she/her)

Raminta wrangles preschoolers by day, cuddles her kitties by night, and never misses a chance to joke about Holden things together.

Drag Instagram

Ray Malloy

(they/them)

Ray never learned how to relax, and that's why they're here.

Sabrina Liberatore

(she/her)

Sabrina is an artist who enjoys reading, traveling, talking too much, and making charcuterie boards; she’s also a lover of buffalo chicken dip, posting on TikTok, and using the word “diva.” 

Website

Sasha Tekeian

(she/her)

Sasha is a big-time theater nerd and crafter who is very excited to MacGyver some nonsense for these one-acts (and yes, I did make that costume myself out of mostly cardboard and duct tape).

Savannah Paul

(she/her)

Savannah is a dedicated cat mom by day and a menace to society by night

Sky

(they/them)

Sky is a vampire bat from outer space who occupies their time on planet Earth cooking, traveling, performing, and conducting secret moon rituals in their attic.

Stel Stein

(they/them)

Stel is a recent escapee of Emerson College and a big fan of lanterns, fireflies, and other things that glow, such as lights.

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