5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche

Written By Evan Linder & Andrew Hobgood
Directed By Daniel Martin

April 24-May 10, 2014
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 8pm
Sunday Matinee May 4th at 2pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

It’s 1956 and The Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. As the assembled “widows” await the announcement of the society's prize-winning quiche, the atomic bomb sirens sound! Has the Communist threat come to pass? How will the “widows” respond as their idyllic town and lifestyle faces attacks? Winner of the 2012 NYC International Fringe Festival as Best Overall Production, 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche is a tasty recipe of hysterical laughs, sexual innuendoes, unsuccessful repressions, and delicious discoveries.

Featuring: Flannery Whaley, Sara James, Kelsey Crawford, Rhonda Erbrick, Karen Marie Black

Evan Linder is a founding member of The New Colony (Winner of Broadway in Chicago's Emerging Theatre Award- 2011) in Chicago, IL, where he also serves as Co-Artistic Director. He works as a playwright, actor and director. He also teaches playwriting at the University of Chicago. Evan's first play produced in Chicago, FRAT, was named as one of the Best of 2009 in the Chicago Tribune, Windy City Times and Newcity. Other works include 11:11, The Warriors, The Bear Suit of Happiness, B-Side Studio and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, which was named Best Overall Production at the 2012 NYC International Fringe Festival and immediately transferred to an off-Broadway run as part of the Soho Playhouse's 2012-2013 season. In 2013, 5 Lesbians was published by Samuel French and Evan was listed on Chicago Magazine's Power List of Theater Scene Stealers.

Andrew Hobgood is the Founding Artistic Director of The New Colony and a Business Strategist in Chicago. His last play, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, won Outstanding Production at the 2012 New York International FringeFestival and is published by the Samuel French imprint of Concord Theatricals. Hobgood's other work with The New Colony includes writing and directing the new musicals Tupperware: An American Musical Fable, That Sordid Little Story and Rise of The Numberless, as well as directing Amelia Earhart: Jungle Princess, the original and commercial productions of FRAT, and Hearts Full of Blood, which won Outstanding Script at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.