Help Bring ETERNAL FLAMER to Hollywood Fringe 2025!

We're producing the West Coast premiere of the award-winning ETERNAL FLAMER! THE BALLAD OF JESSIE BLADE — and we’d be grateful for your help in making it as Totally Awesome as it can be!

$10,000 will fully fund this epicly Queer glitterbomb* of a play for its Hollywood Fringe 2025 debut.

*per our venue’s guidelines, there will be no real glitter, and we hope not to bomb.

Why do we need you?

Your donations fund:

-Paying our cast, crew, and designers fair wages for their totally tubular work

-Various production expenses

-Creating a bitchin’ experience that centers and celebrates Queer art. We promise not to bore you. Like, at all.

-Starting Crossbones Theatre Company, which will continue to helm Queer Theatre in Los Angeles year-round.

✨ About the show:

A GAY 80s MELODRAMA TOLD IN 90 AWESOME MINUTES

In this neon-coated farce, pretty-boy Jessie Blade leaves his smalltown home for the bright lights of the City that Never Sleeps (with the same person twice), only to get swallowed into a labyrinth of sex, drugs, and open dance calls!

The story follows wide-eyed Jessie’s mission to become the top dancer at the fictional Gomorrah Nightclub in 1980’s New York. The Madam, drag queen and owner of the club, takes Jessie under her sequined wing. Jessie loses his innocence amid nasty competition with the club’s resident dancer, the scheming Billy Panache.

Eternal Flamer! The Ballad of Jessie Blade is written by Tommy Jamerson, Josh Julian, & James Tison, is directed by Matthew ZanFagna, and co-designed by ZanFagna and Gnosis.

For artist bios and more info, pop over to EternalFlamerFringe.com

~CAST~

JESSIE BLADE

James Tison* (Safeword, Off-Broadway)

THE MADAM

Ross Knight (Work In Progress, HereTV)

BILLIE PANACHE

Jordan Paradise

RUDY

Gnosis (John Cameron Mitchell’s Nation of One)

MAMMA BLADE

Joan Nelson (Urinetown, Off-Broadway)

MUFFY DIVER

Giselle Austria

MONICA

Sadé Ayodele (Fallout, Amazon)

‍SKIP ‍

Tanner Hayes (UCB)

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