You can be a slut in New York for ninety days without a visa.
Well, that was the plan… Ninety days of consequence-free sex, freedom, and forgetting. What I actually got was a masterclass in how desire can save you and destroy you at the same time.
The result is Desire Under the L Train, my semi-autobiographical solo show that’s coming to London’s Omnibus Theatre for three nights only in June as part of their brilliant 96 Festival.
It’s filthy. It’s funny. And it’s more honest than is probably good for me.
In the show, I push theatrical self-portrait as far as I dare. I lay bare the compulsive cruising, the endless search for connection in dark rooms and on neon streets, the art galleries by day and the dive bars by night.
I talk about what it’s like to be freshly single at 40, convinced you’re reinventing yourself while actually just repeating the same patterns with different men. I examine that gnawing, often painful need to be wanted — even when you know it’s going to hurt.
New York has a way of making you confront every ghost who came before you. As I stumbled through the city’s cruising spots, I felt the weight of every gay man who had walked those streets looking for the same thing — connection, release, proof that we matter.
Their stories haunted me. Their joy, their shame, their brilliance and their losses. I started to understand that my own desperate hunger wasn’t just personal. It was generational.
The show is raw because it has to be. I’m not interested in a tidy redemption arc. This is about sex and survival. About f**king, failing, and getting up anyway. About laughing at yourself even when you’re on your knees — sometimes literally.
Because if you can’t laugh at the mess you’ve made of your life, what’s the point? I’m incredibly proud to be bringing this to London with the brilliant Owen Horsley (RSC Associate Artist) directing.
After a sold-out, extended Off-Broadway run at New York’s Kraine Theatre, we’re doing just three nights at the Omnibus.
Intimate, intense, and properly unfiltered.
If you like your theatre clever, queer, horny and honest — the kind that leaves you laughing, turned on and deeply spoken to — then this one’s for you.
I lay myself bare every night. No filter. No safety net. Just me, my mistakes, my desires, and the ghosts.
Come and watch me try to make sense of it all.
Desire Under The L Train runs from 19 – 21 June 2026 at Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common North Side, London SW4 0QW, United Kingdom.
Time: 7.30pm
Tickets £14 – £16
Part of the 96 Festival — Omnibus Theatre’s annual celebration of queer theatre, comedy, cabaret, music, art and activism.
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