Following its sold-out, three-times-extended Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons’ intimate Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Jordan Tannahill’s majestic play Prince Faggot will return to New York this fall. The world premiere production—presented by bb² (Jeremy O. Harris and Josh Godfrey), Seaview, LD Entertainment, Playwrights Horizons, and Soho Rep—will transfer to Studio Seaview (305 W 43rd Street), Seaview’s new Off-Broadway home, from September 11th in an extended run through December 13th, 2025.
Directed by OBIE-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Shayok Misha Chowdhury, this funny, penetrating, raw and provocative work transfers on the heels of its critically acclaimed run. It becomes the second production from Seaview (following the Sam Gold-directed Angry Alan, starring John Krasinski) in their renovated Rem Koolhaas-designed theater, formerly the home of Second Stage.
What begins as a theatrical thought experiment—six queer and trans performers imagining themselves into a world of inherited power and royal expectation—quickly becomes a gloriously profane and surprisingly tender love story. Equal parts delicate and audacious, Prince Faggot takes on identity, inheritance, and all the beautiful, terrifying contradictions that come from living truthfully in a world built to contain you.
Blisteringly hot in both its incisiveness and uninhibited sexuality—as it impales and rearranges the guts of divine right—the production was hailed as “horny, thought-provoking” (Maxwell Losgar, Cosmopolitan), and “one of the year’s best new plays” (Robert Hofler, The Wrap). “Beginning in pain and provocation, it finds its way to splendor,” wrote Jesse Green in The New York Times, in a Critic’s Pick review. In his 5-star review, The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann praised the play as “tender and thought-provoking, while leading somewhere truly unexpected and moving”.
Prince Faggot marked Tannahill’s Off-Broadway debut—a continuation of a writing career (as both a celebrated novelist and, per Libération, “the enfant terrible of Canadian Theatre”) restructuring power through queerness and queer sex. Chowdhury, whose 2023 Public Obscenities (commissioned and produced by Soho Rep) went on to win the writer-director an OBIE Award and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was praised by Helen Shaw in The New Yorker for his ability to “[interweave] humor, allusion, gravity, and extended metaphor as if each quality were a musical line, making an integrated symphonic whole” and for how he “uses his spectacular cast.”
Now in Tannahill’s mischievous and moving deployment of meta-theater as an act of radical reimagination, Chowdhury taps into what makes each performer in an ensemble of actors singular. All original performers return, playing themselves as an ensemble of actors, gathering to recast themselves as royals and those caught in their orbit. In his New York Times review, Jesse Green further wrote that “Chowdhury’s staging is as lucid as an oratorio. He perfectly sets up each actor for bravura solos that make their group scenes feel lushly choral,” and further commended the six actors as “all exceptionally good in multiple roles.”
The ensemble cast features OBIE Award winner Rachel Crowl (Off-Broadway: Between Two Knees, TV: “The Sensitive Kind,” “New Amsterdam”) as Performer 3, Tony Award nominee K. Todd Freeman (Playwrights: Downstate; Broadway: The Minutes, Airline Highway, Song of Jacob Zulu, Wicked) as Performer 2, six-time OBIE Award winner David Greenspan (Soho Rep: Marie Antoinette; Playwrights: She Stoops to Comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, The Wax) as Performer 5, Mihir Kumar (TV: “And Just Like That,” “Elsbeth,” “Law and Order: SVU”) as Performer 1, Olivier Award nominee John McCrea (West End: Cabaret, Daddy – A Melodrama, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, The Busker’s Opera) as Performer 6, and N’yomi Allure Stewart (Off Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun, Richard III) as Performer 4. Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth; Off-Broadway: Hamlet, Redwood, Much Ado About Nothing) will play the role of Performer 2 until Friday, September 26, when K. Todd Freeman, who originated the role to acclaim, returns from directing Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf at Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Responding to Prince Faggot in Playwrights Horizons’ literary magazine Almanac, author and musician Brontez Purnell wrote, “Tannahill…has done the heavy lifting of making these very celestial themes of love, duty, commitment, and perhaps most importantly abandon, and made them all Earthbound”; Actress and writer Hari Nef called the play “a deliberate provocation. It’s blue-chip clickbait, X-rated fanfic, and ‘punke’ with an e–how Shakespeare spelled it to describe whores. Prince Faggot knows it’s a massive fucking stunt because Jordan Tannahill is a massive fucking faggot–one of the best we’ve got, if you ask me. When Faggotry calls, Tannahill answers.” Writer and former editor-in-chief of Artforum, David Velasco, reflected, “Beginnings and endings are often twisty, just like they are in Prince Faggot, this beautiful story about all the obstacles we encounter as we try to patch ourselves together into our own imperfect, truthful prince-faggots.”
The returning creative team includes David Zinn (Scenic Designer), Montana Levi Blanco (Costume Designer), Isabella Byrd (Lighting Designer), Lee Kinney (Sound Design & Original Music), Cookie Jordan (Wig and Hair Designer), Sarah Lunnie (Dramaturg), UnkleDave’s Fight-House (Intimacy Coordination), Matt Carlin (Props), Paul Rubin (Aerial Effects), and Deborah Hecht (Dialect Coach). Casting by Alaine Alldaffer, Lisa Donadio, Taylor Williams, CSA. Jack Serio is Associate Director. Production stage manager is Ryan Gohsman, with production supervision by Hudson Theatrical Associates / Sean Gorski and Seaview / Jonathan Whitton serving as general manager.
For performance schedule and to to purchase tickets head to PrinceFaggot.com.
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