Acclaimed British-Iraqi writer and director Amrou Al-Kadhi directs a newly reimagined staging of US Comic Sam Morrison’s acclaimed one-person show Sugar Daddy.

Sugar Daddy tells the remarkable true story Morrison never expected—or wanted—to share. One summer in Provincetown, he fell in love with the “silver zaddy” of his dreams. Months later, during the pandemic, he lost that partner to COVID. What follows is not a conventional grief narrative, but a sharp, unruly, and deeply human piece of theatre—taking in seagull attacks, New York muggings, encounters with Jehovah’s Witnesses, and a surprise diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. This is emphatically not a show about illness or death alone.

Drawing on Morrison’s background in stand-up (Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Drew Barrymore Show, Comedy Central; NBC Stand-Up Finalist, Just for Laughs’ One To Watch), Sugar Daddy distils that comic precision into a tightly crafted 75-minute piece of storytelling. As Billy Porter has put it: “It’s BAWDY.”

“Arch sass and polished panache … remarkably fast and furious.” – The New York Times

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The Edgewood Entertainment production is co-produced by Alan Cumming and Billy Porter.

Image: Sam Morrison performing Sugar Daddy in LA (Credit Hannah Burnett)