BABY'S first CRAZY kiss STORY

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Ellie is 15 and anxious. Then she is 18 and anxious. She wants to expand beyond her anxiety, to drink and dance and date, but she finds herself trapped within the boundaries that once kept her safe.

Queer, awkward, and nostalgic, BABY’S first CRAZY kiss STORY is a love letter to being young, lost, confused, and crushed. To being the weird one. To finding the universal within the specific. And, perhaps, to still knowing all the words to Baba Yetu seven years after you learned them.

“Playwright Brooks Gillespie perfectly captured the awkwardness of late teen years, the adjustment to college life with roommates, and the process of coming into your sexuality…The entire play was effortlessly funny, and the dialogue could have been word-for-word conversations found in any dorm room” - Amélie Acevedo, Bwog