QUEEN MARY by Samuel D Hunter starring Mx Viv Bond
Fawn has everything she ever wanted. Her career as a cabaret legend is on the up and up, she has the cutest hottest BF, and all the support from her chosen family in Manhattan.
Growing up as a boy in New Hope, PA was a past she left behind long ago. Her aging parents along with it, but when her father dies Fawn realises that she has more in common with her mother Mary than she thought. They decide to go on an epic voyage together on the Queen Mary from New York to London.
A sweet road trip comedy, tonally reminiscent of SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE meets POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, this feature is starring, and based on the life and work of Mx Viv Bond.
Both Bond and Hunter are recipients of the Macarthur Genius Award.
Justin Vivian Bond is the recipient of an Obie, a Bessie, The Lambda Literary award for best transgender non-fiction for their memoir “Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels,” a Tony nomination for “Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway,”and was recently awarded with a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship.
Their visual art and installations have been seen in museums and galleries in the US and UK, and will be part of the inaugural exhibition of the V&A East in May of 2025.
Described by The New Yorker as “the greatest cabaret artist of their generation” Viv was nominated for a Tony Award and has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London’s West End, and has enjoyed a decades long residency at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater.
Film credits include: Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Shortbus, Sunset Stories, and Imaginary Heroes.
Television: Wolfe Boy and the Everything Factory, High Maintenance, The Get Down, Ugly Betty.
Samuel D. Hunter grew up in Moscow, Idaho and lives in New York City. His full-length plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Case for the Existence of God (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, Hull-Warriner Award), A Bright New Boise (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), Greater Clements (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Honoree), Lewiston/Clarkston (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Few, A Great Wilderness, Rest, Pocatello, The Healing, and The Harvest, among others. The film version of The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Brendan Fraser, was nominated for the 2023 BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received two Oscars, including Best Actor. He was also a writer and producer on all four seasons of FX’s Baskets. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. His work has been produced Off Broadway in New York City by Lincoln Center Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Signature Theatre, Page 73 Productions, Clubbed Thumb, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Elsewhere, his work has been produced by Theatre Royal Bath, Dallas Theatre Center, Seattle Rep, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, and Victory Gardens, among others. Two published anthologies of his work are available from TCG Books, and a third is forthcoming. He is a member of New Dramatists and a current Resident Playwright at the Signature Theatre in New York City. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard.