Chris Browne Valenzuela

Chris’s original play “The Two Deaths of Saint Sebastian” performs a Work-in-Progress showing at Dixon Place as part of the HOT Festival.

Along two other shows in progress, “The Two Deaths of Saint Sebastian” form “Menage-a-trois: An evening in Three Acts” at Dixon Place.

The plot revolves around a look into the life (or afterlife) of the unofficial Patron Saint of sad gay boys. Saint Sebastian spends his days in Heaven, where he has befriended fellow martyr Saint Agatha (early Christian whose breasts were cut off and is always represented carrying them on a platter) in shared disillusion of eternity. That is until Sebastian gets a desperate prayer from a Queer kid. According to Catholic dogma saints are intercessors -carriers of intentions to God- but can’t intervene themselves. In this Queer, Catholic fantasy Sebastian is faced with the first moral question of his death.

The cast is comprised of Chris Browne Valenzuela as Saint Sebastian; Jenny Hanrahan as Saint Agatha; Jay Edward Clarke as the Archangel Gabriel; with the participation of Jacquelyn Acosta as The Voice of God; and Adriana Nocco and Anissa Naji playing additional characters.