LimeFest 2025
Week 1 Lineup
LimeFest 2025. New, zesty works by emerging artists and creative teams who identify as women, nonbinary or gender non-conforming.
EVENTS
Influencer Astrid goes from Tradwife to Trapped-wife when her husband locks her in their attic. She says she went willingly, but is that true? Either way: who can save her?
You remember the hit TV show "Smash"? You remember the musical about that show that JUST closed? This is season 3 of Smash. You're welcome.
She never thought she’d be the villain, but that is exactly what she became. And on a cruise ship no less.....
Jade, a 30-something artist and escort, is hired by Dave for what turns out to be much more than a standard outcall.
The world order has collapsed into a war over resources. Diana lives in solitude until a soldier arrives. Navigating her first significant contact in years, survival hangs in the balance.
As memories spin into a spiraling spider web, we are invited to witness the final moment between mother and daughter. Will ONE let go? Can TWO break free?
Arlington, VA. 1953. Edith and Clark struggle to start a family. After Clark’s promotion, and reunion with his foxy high school sweetheart, Edith notices dead birds falling from the sky.
Maxine collects stories, and maybe something else too. Oliver wouldn't necessarily say they have a story to share. Agree to disagree.
Three friends come together to box up items from a deceased loved one. Their day gets flipped upside down when they are met with a literal pile of grief.
Talking With The Lorde: A Choreopoem is a sonically, visual space holding rage-full freedom—and choral defiance seen through the all-seeing eyes of the black chorus.
When a devout young woman is asked to defy everything she’s vowed to believe, she must peel back the rituals of religion and confront the human cost beneath them.
Jersey Shore Fantasia... is a 90-minute dramedy about queerness, labor, and power in an embattled college theatre department circa 2017.
A U G U S T 28th by Hope Ruffin Ward is a choreopoem that delves into the layers of identity, memory, and resilience within the Black diaspora, examining how America, family, friendship, and love shape the evolution of our past, present, and future.
The Bear Family is known for two things: they never take off their bear suits, and they’re even wilder beneath the fur.
An imaginary camel, a brand new muumuu, and a pack of Virginia Slims launch a woman and her recently removed anthropomorphic appendix into an existential spiral.
Vanishing 2.0 is about making a meal. It’s a ritual of memories named “diaspora”, it’s us asking: what does it mean to live within, or beyond, vanishing and being trapped?
The Anecdotes of a Lesbian Princess finds a messy, too emotionally available, overtherapized queer, jewish- latina in her 20s trying to “hack” lesbian culture in New York City
A party in the absence of food, drink, and pleasant company. DINNERS ALONE is a darkly, absurdist drawing comedy for the twenty-first century.
Devil Girl is a coming-of-age story about a 2Spirit Native girl transforming into Deer Woman, a Native mythological figure. Exploring the MMIW2S crisis through poetry, surrealism, myth, and magic.
A group of girls obsessed with the occult perform a ritual gone wrong at a sleepover, after which they must reverse a demonic possession to save their best friend.
A dysfunctional polycule navigates the rise of an authoritarian government, a slew of unexplained disappearances, and an uncanny boom in deer population.
A poetic solo performance exploring the intimate, overlapping journeys of Lili Elbe and Darwin Del Fabro, LILI/DARWIN invites the audience into a raw, unflinching world of identity, memory, and becoming.