Abraham Lincoln’s Big
Gay Dance Party

Written By Aaron Loeb
Directed By Daniel Martin

December 6-22, 2012
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 2:00pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

Illinois schoolteacher Harmony Green has told her fourth grade class that Menard County's most beloved homegrown hero, Abraham Lincoln, was gay. When Honest Abe is "outed" in a reimagined Christmas pageant, controversy and chaos engulf the town. As the trial of the century begins, big-city reporters and Congressional candidates descend, and family skeletons are forced out of the closet. Top hats and beards abound in this hilarious, poignant, and timely look at prejudice past and present.

Featuring: Juan Carlos Batlle, Amanda Maddox, Douglas O'Neil, Jr., Bates Redwine, Debbie Smith, Jonathan Sweatt and Sophia Wells.

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Aaron Loeb is a California playwright whose work has been performed around the country. His full-length plays include The Trials of Sam Houston (opening at Dallas Theater Center in 2018), Ideation (which premiered Off-Broadway in 2016), The Proud, Alcestis (Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Brown, First Person Shooter, Blastosphere (with Geetha Reddy), and Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party, which had its Off-Broadway premiere in 2010. Among the honors Loeb has received are: the Will Glickman Award for best new play in the Bay Area (Ideation, 2013), two Bay Area Theater Critic Circle Awards for Best New Play (First Person Shooter in '07, ALBGDP in '08), Outstanding Play from the New York International Fringe Festival (ALBGDP '09), GLAAD Media Award Nominee (ALBGDP '09), and seven "Emerging Playwright Awards" from PlayGround. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Inc.