Prince Faggot
| Prince Faggot | |
|---|---|
 Program cover from Studio Seaview run | |
| Original language | English |
| Written by | Jordan Tannahill |
| Premiere | |
| Date | June 16, 2025 |
| Directed by | Shayok Misha Chowdhury |
Prince Faggot is a 2025 play by Jordan Tannahill.
Synopsis
An ensemble of queer and trans performers imagine a future world where Prince George of Cambridge is a gay man. In the process, they interrogate the ways in which power and colonisation play upon their lives and sexualities.
The play features a series of fictional, direct-address monologues written by the playwright for the members of the ensemble, and a final monologue based on the real-life experiences of actress N'yomi Allure Stewart.
Production history
World premiere (Off-Broadway)
Prince Faggot opened at Playwrights Horizons with a first preview on May 30, 2025, an official opening night on June 16, and a scheduled closing on July 6. After an extension, the first run closed on August 3, 2025. The show was co-produced by Soho Rep and Jeremy O. Harris, and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury.
Studio Seaview (Off-Broadway)
The show returned for a second Off-Broadway run at Studio Seaview for an initial run of September 11, 2025 to October 26, 2025. It was later extended through November 30, 2025. On November 3, 2025, a third and final extension through December 13, 2025 was announced.
Critical reception
New York Times theatre critic Jesse Green gave Prince Faggot a Critics' Pick and wrote "If the playwright means to shock, mission accomplished. But here’s the real shocker: the play... is thrilling. Inflammatory, nose-thumbing, explicit to the point of pornography, wild and undisciplined." The play received positive reviews from various publications including The New Yorker, Attitude, and Cosmopolitan, which described the show as "a horny, thought-provoking play that's as academic as it is avant-garde." The play stirred a degree of controversy and prompted international press coverage over its depiction of Prince George of Cambridge as an adult gay man engaged in kink and chemsex.
The premiere production was included on a number of 'Best of 2025' lists, including in the Los Angeles Times Artforum and Vulture. The play became one of the most nominated of the 2025-26 Off-Broadway season, and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.
Casting and characters
| Playwrights Horizons | Studio Seaview | |
|---|---|---|
| Performer 1 | Mihir Kumar | |
| Performer 2 | K. Todd Freeman | Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (September 11-26, 2025) K. Todd Freeman (from September 27) |
| Performer 3 | Rachel Crowl | |
| Performer 4 | N'yomi Allure Stewart | |
| Performer 5 | David Greenspan | |
| Performer 6 | John McCrea | |
Awards and nominations
Prince Faggot was a finalist for the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Drama, and the 2026 Governor General's Award for English-language drama.
Original Off-Broadway production
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Lucille Lortel Awards | Outstanding Play | Jordan Tannahill | Won | |
| Outstanding Direction | Shayok Misha Chowdhury | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play | David Greenspan | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Isabella Byrd | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Costume Design | Montana Levi Blanco | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Scenic Design | David Zinn | Nominated | |||
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Jordan Tannahill | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play | David Greenspan | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Isabella Byrd | Nominated | |||
| Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Play | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Direction of a Play | Shayok Misha Chowdhury | Nominated | |||
| Distinguished Performance | John McCrea | Nominated | |||
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | Jordan Tannahill | Nominated | ||
| Obie Award | Special Citation | Ensemble | Won | ||
| Dorian Award | Outstanding Off-Broadway Play | Won | |||
| Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production | Won | ||||
| Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production | John McCrea | Won | |||
| Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production | K. Todd Freeman | Nominated | |||
| David Greenspan | Won | ||||
| Outstanding Writing for an Off-Broadway Production | Jordan Tannahill | Won | |||
| Outstanding Design for an Off-Broadway Production | Nominated | ||||
References
- ↑ "Prince Faggot". Playwrights Horizon. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
- ↑ Nevins, Jake (2025-07-15). "Jordan Tannahill Takes Tony Kushner Inside "Prince Faggot"". Interview. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
- ↑ "Prince Faggot May Look Like It's About the Royal Family, But It's Actually About Queer Joy". Playbill, November 20, 2025.
- ↑ "Breaking the fourth wall to confront and galvanise audiences". Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2025.
- ↑ Buchwald, Linda (2025-04-16). "K. Todd Freeman, David Greenspan, and More Join Jordan Tannahill World Premiere". TheaterMania. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
- ↑ Gans, Andrew; Culwell-Block, Logan (4 August 2025). "Prince F****t Sets Fall Off-Broadway Return". Playbill. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ↑ "Prince F****t Extends Off-Broadway Return". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2025-09-22. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
- ↑ Culwell-Block, Logan (3 November 2025). "Prince Fagg*t Gets 3rd, Final Extension Off-Broadway at Studio Seaview". Playbill. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ "Review: He's Here, He's Queer, He's the Future King of England". The New York Times. 2025-06-18. Retrieved 2025-09-25.
- ↑ Shaw, Helen (2025-06-26). ""Prince Faggot" Sends Up Kink and Country". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2025-09-25.
- ↑ Torrence, Kyle (2025-06-18). "Prince Faggot Off-Broadway Review 'No kings in NYC, but we bow to the princess of the pier'". attitude. Archived from the original on 21 October 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-30.
- ↑ "Broadway's Edgier Cousin Is Thriving—and Getting Political". Cosmopolitan. 2025-06-18. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
- ↑ Teeman, Tim (2025-06-20). "Sex, drugs and S&M: hit play depicts Prince George as grown up and gay". The Times. Archived from the original on 21 June 2025. Retrieved 2026-04-29.
- ↑ Swain, Marianka (2025-06-18). "Why are Americans obsessed with making the Royal family gay?". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2026-04-29.
- ↑ "Best Theater of 2025". Los Angeles Times, Dec 9, 2025.
- ↑ Feng, Rhoda (2025-12-01). "Best of 2025 - Performing Arts". Artforum. Archived from the original on 16 February 2026. Retrieved 2026-04-29.
- ↑ "What the Culturati 50 Loved in 2025". Vulture, Dec 1, 2025.
- ↑ "Mexodus, Prince Faggot Lead 2026 Lucille Lortel Nominations". Playbill, April 1, 2026.
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- ↑ "Announcing the Finalists for the 38th Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. 2026-03-18. Retrieved 2026-04-29.
- ↑ "MEXODUS and PRINCE F*GGOT Lead 2026 Lucille Lortel Nominations". BroadwayWorld. April 1, 2026. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
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