Drama Tops

photo by Colby Kuschatka

Grant Recipient

photo by Colby Kuschatka

Location

Seattle, WA

Digital Presence

Artist Website

Project Title

DADS

Fiscal Year Awarded

2025

Grant or Program

National Dance Project Production Grant

Drama Top’s DADS is a multiyear dance project that responds to queer community’s need for leadership, mentorship, and iconography in a world built for cis, straight people. This project uses Shane and Elby’s relationships with their fathers, their complex thoughts on becoming dads, and their queer, male thoughts of “getting a Daddy” and “turning into a daddy”– as a driver for community organizing.

Caretakers of the Land/Land Acknowledgement: Duwamish

Estimated Artist Fee: $20,000

Two folks, in wrestling singlets, twirl. One holds the other by their legs and their torso spins away from the other.

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Shane Donohue
Co Director, Drama Tops
shane.b.donohue@gmail.com
tel. 608-577-0693
www.dramatops.com