Butch Mermaid Productions

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Founded by Ania Upstill in 2019.

Butch Mermaid Productions is a transdisciplinary company whose mission is to make queer joy irresistible and contagious, envisioning a world where all queer people experience joy and belonging. BMP has presented work at Frigid Fringe (NYC), Queerly Festival (NYC), Dixon Place (NYC), New Zealand Fringe, Auckland Pride (NZ), Adelaide Fringe Festival (AUS), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK), the Kennedy Center (DC), PhysFestNYC, and Philadelphia Fringe/Cannonball Festival.

In our work we value collaborating with diverse queer* creatives; embracing curiosity; working across theatrical forms and media; paying queer* people; and creating learning opportunities for audiences.

* we use 'queer' as a catch-all term for the LGBTQIA2S+ community

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Previous Work 

December 8th

Pre-show by Pearly
6:45PM

Concert Starts
7:15PM

Butch Mermaid Productions has been working to bring together a new, hotter-than-ever version of Antonio! . Come join us for one white-hot night concert of queer, punk, pirate rock!

This concert staging of Antonio! is hosted by Bedlam Theater as part of their Do More series. Opening for Antonio! is the band Pearly.