Prince Faggot

2025 Off-Broadway play From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Prince Faggot is a 2025 play by Jordan Tannahill.

Directed byShayok Misha Chowdhury
Date premieredJune 16, 2025
Original languageEnglish
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Prince Faggot
Program cover from Studio Seaview run
Written byJordan Tannahill
Directed byShayok Misha Chowdhury
Date premieredJune 16, 2025
Original languageEnglish
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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.[1][2]

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.[3][4]

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.[5]

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.[6] It was later extended through November 30, 2025.[7] On November 3, 2025, a third and final extension through December 13, 2025 was announced.[8]

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."[9] The play received positive reviews from various publications including The New Yorker,[10] Attitude,[11] and Cosmopolitan, which described the show as "a horny, thought-provoking play that's as academic as it is avant-garde."[12] The play stirred a degree of controversy[13] and prompted international press coverage[14] 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[15] Artforum[16] and Vulture.[17]

Casting and characters

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Playwrights Horizons[18] Studio Seaview[18]
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
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Awards and nominations

Prince Faggot is a finalist for the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Drama[19].

Original Off-Broadway production

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Year Award Category Nominee Result
2026 Obie Award Special Citation Ensemble Won
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