past performances

A National Queer Audiotheatre Collaboration of a Micromonologue Cycle by Harrison David Rivers

Consisting of seven brief audio monologues, this exquisite audiocycle by Harrison David Rivers explores intimate confessions made in public spaces about love and sex. Starting Wednesday June 16 through December 31, 2021.

TigerBear Productions leveraged the unique opportunities of our recent global all-virtual timespace to partner on this project with six remarkable queer theaters across the country. These seven far-flung organizations connected through our shared mission to serve our queer communities and celebrate the talented artists across boundaries of time and distance.

A charged glance on the bus. A passerby’s glimpse through a restaurant window. A side-eyed “excuse me” turned into multiple lookbacks. Currently in development playwright Harrison David Rivers and director M. Graham Smith, Missed Connections is a collection of 3-minute micromonologues that disrupt this pandemic pause and celebrate those brief, random, in-person encounters queer folks experienced on the regular during pre-COVID times. PLAYWRIGHT: Harrison David Rivers

Birdsinging, Dance and Storytelling with a Tour of the Butler-Jaffe House

The 1971 Butler-Jaffe House in Indian Canyons is an exquisite showcase for second-wave midcentury modernism. Fifty years after its construction, the house provides Modernism Week 2021 attendees a unique chance to experience its architecture, design, and style alongside stories, birdsongs performed by singers and dancers from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and modern movement choreographed and performed by the Nickerson-Rossi Dance company. The event embraces modernism, movement, and migration, and honors the local Native Americans whose land the house sits on.