The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams
The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams
by Paige esterly
Directed by: Jenny Lester
Associate Director: Brittany Martel
Stage Manager: Emily Bubeck
Lighting Design: Tyler Merrell
Starring: Lily Lester, Morgan Meadows, Princess Victome, & Jake Wallack
Produced by: Paige Esterly, Jenny Lester, & Brittany Martel
The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams had its first staged workshop production in the summer of 2022 as part of Irondale Ensemble Project’s On Women Festival. Due to a Covid outbreak, the workshop run was cut short - Eve premiered and closed in the same afternoon.
BUT! Just like the real, historical Eve Adams, our little show didn’t go down without a fight! A fully staged production of The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams ran at The Tank in Manhattan September of 2024 just about 20 blocks from the site of the real historical Eve Adams’ Speakeasy. For more info, to make a tax deductible donation, or for co-producing/hosting inquires, please contact us here.
*Original workshop cast & crew included Michael Abber (Danny), Olivia Paradise (AD), & Monika Orzelowski (Lighting Design).
The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams is the true story of Jewish immigrant Eve Adams, self-proclaimed “Queen of the Third Sex,” in 1920’s New York. Eve fought for queer female space and representation, opening Eve’s Tearoom, a lesbian speakeasy on MacDougal Street, and publishing Lesbian Love, a collection of stories based on interviews with the downtown lesbian community which is now considered one of the first depictions of lesbian life in America. The Great Lesbian Love is a full-length, audience-immersive 90-minute play in three acts, focusing on
Eve’s publishing of her book and her subsequent arrest.
