Southern Baptist Sissies

Written By Del Shores
Directed By Daniel Martin

July 27-August 12, 2017
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 8pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

Follows the journey of four gay boys in the Baptist Church. Storyteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to create a world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage. The world Mark creates also includes two older barflies, Peanut and Odette, whose banter takes the audience from hysterical laughter to tragedy and tears.

Featuring: Seth Burgess, Jared Funderburg, Mark Nelson, Chance Novalis, Scott Nesmith, Holly Dikeman, David Coker, Penny Thomas, and Eamon Griffith

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“The play is mix of sassy humor and deep emotions. This is not easy to stage but Martin delivers.”
— David Edward Perry

Del Shores is the writer/director/producer of the films Sordid Lives, Blues for Willadean, Southern Baptist Sissies and A Very Sordid Wedding. He wrote and executive produced the MGM feature Daddy’s Dyin’...Who’s Got The Will? His plays Cheatin’, Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got The Will?), Daughters of the Lone Star State, Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, Yellow, This Side of Crazy and A Very Sordid Wedding are all published by Concord/Samuel French. In television, Del Shores wrote, directed, executive produced and created the LOGO series Sordid Lives: The Series. He also wrote and executive produced Showtime’s groundbreaking Queer As Folk for the last three seasons, and wrote and produced for Dharma & Greg and Ned & Stacey.