Join Fresh Fruit for a night of queer literature, theater and film on Thursday Oct. 15 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. with hosts Dixie Treichel & John Townsend. Guests include Peter Neofotis, Randy Reyes,
Christopher Beer & Tina Henry

Peter Neofotis, author, performer

"Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town"

Gay author and performer Peter Neofotis performed one of his prose short stories from memory at an “over the transom” night at Greenwich Village’s Cornelia Street Cafe in 2006 and was immediately asked by the cafe to do a full one man show.

A compilation of Neofotis’s scripts won the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize for Best Novella in 2008, and in 2009 was published by St. Martin’s Press as a book - Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in Eleven Stories. In the tales, community and filial bonds come to odds with taboos, religion, and human laws – and the characters must choose by which system of ethics they will live.

Neofotis developed the tales by night, while working by day at the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he was a Contributing Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. He also co-authored a landmark article on observed climate change impacts that was published in Nature.

Randy Reyes, director

King of Shadows by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

October 2 – November 1, 2009
Pillsbury House Theatre

A play about gay teen homelessness. Nihar, a runaway teen living on the streets and selling sex to survive, befriends and forms a powerful bond with Jessica, a young social worker, and her teenage sister Sarah. Nihar’s tales of life on the street are woven with stories of other homeless youth being stolen by supernatural forces.

Christopher Beer, director
Tina Henry, assistant director

Falling Up Sky Pictures

"Faux"

FAUX takes place during America's current perceptions of sexuality; specifically, the gay rights movement. It will center around Minneapolis' own GLBT community, and shall offer insight as well as provoke thought. But as this is the focal point, it will also embody a broader philosophy, disseminating ideologies of narrative time and history, as well as cultural concepts of sexuality and humanism.