Program 2

If you can't talk to your doctor, get a new doctor!

Syphilis is here, it's treatable, get tested!

Produced in collaboration with Outside In, the Oregon Health Authority, and the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Written by: Aventurine Atalanta 
Featuring: Aventurine Atalanta (Party Patient), Alex Pham Wakefield (Party Doctor), Vincent Romero (Silent Patient)

Pull up a chair, slip into something comfortable, and join us as we venture into the thrilling world of buildings, people, and people who make buildings. Be sure to join us next week for our two-part special Urban Planning: How to Keep Low-Income Residents out of Your Neighborhood.

Produced during Outside the Frame's 2023 Spring Intensive

Written by: Rachel Gosselin, Vincent Romero, Joey Wander
Featuring: Shwavvy Shaw (Earnest K. Ladyfingers), Vincent Romero (Architecture Interacting Pedestrian)

In a modern retelling of Brazilian folklore, nervous and insecure Theo discovers love for the first time at a fantastical, avant-garde party.

Written by: Carolyn  Woolner, Gabriel Souza Nunes
Featuring: Matheus Severo (Theo), Zac Bellward (Sol), Eaemya Thyngi (Piper), Ali Rusu-Tahir (Chicago), Wei Chung (Cupcake), Jaye Simpson (Persephone), Rae Takei (Apollo), Jason Johnson (Man)

Raven's story of transformation from a houseless street newspaper vendor to the creator of a Covid-19 task force at Street Roots.

Featuring: Raven Drake

While exploring an abandoned cabin, the Tin Woodman finds...his original head? Based on the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum, this short stop-motion film explores the origins of the Tin Woodman and how he came to be made of tin.

Written by: Nick Boxwell
Featuring: Justin Bowen (Nick Chopper)

Two gay Guardian Angels meddle with their assigned humans while bringing their past to the present.

Written by: Robby Kendall
Featuring: Ross Hutter (Alex), Brent Roberts (Joey McGee), Derek Devault (TJ Wright III), Gavyn Michaels (Hunter), Robby Kendall (Brian)

I​n the midst of grappling with suppressed emotions for her best friend, Parker's world takes an unexpected turn when what begins as a heartfelt revelation transforms into a chilling ordeal.

Written by: Tierra Frost
Featuring: Reem Alawi, Thao Phan

Follow performer Kristyn Michele as they transition from mezzo-soprano to tenor and are cast in the first ever off-Broadway musical performed by an all trans and non-binary cast.

Featuring: Kristyn Michele

We see more than one kind of horror in this film produced during Outside the Frame's 2023 Spring Intensive.

Written by: Ollie Comet
Featuring: Shwavvy Shaw, Aventurine Atalanta, Kyle Day

The morning after hooking up, two recent college grads wrestle with their feelings for each other while a strange and inexplicable phenomenon creeps up in the background.

Written by: Ethan Roberts
Featuring: Joshua Michael Payne (Zach), Joshua Bippert (Petey)

What happens when a hook up doesn't quite go how you expected it to? Narrated in a series of short poems, 66 Motel explores the misconnections, the unspoken thoughts, and the delusions we experience in our digitally connected world. 

Written by: Jalen Thompson
Featuring: Jalen Thompson

Luca performs for the first time in a queer ballroom and is interrupted on the dance floor by his mother, even though she has already passed away.

Written by: Kevin Corbeil Palma
Featuring: Johnny Wu (Luca), Ramona Kim (Claire)

In this LGBTQ+ Comedy Horror Short Film, Spencer and Cameron move into a new house that just so happens to be haunted by an old baby carriage. As the carriage endeavors to scare the couple, the attempts ultimately fail because the couple just doesn't care... like... you know... at all.

Written by: JT Seaton
Featuring: Dylan Wayne Lawrence (Spencer), John Reddy (Cameron), Kelli Maroney (Regina Kobritz), James Sharinghousen (Bob), Noelle Guest (Carol), Paule Bright (Ted), Laura Welsh (Alice)