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Dates & Times
Thursday 11 April
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
What’s funnier (and sexier) than 50 Shades of Grey? Long before E.L. James turned her Twilight fantasies into a cash cow, there was Erotic Fan Fiction – a crowd favourite and unstoppable cultural phenomenon.
Not all popular storytelling is about duplicitous missing wives, dying French prostitutes (who sing) or playboy millionaires with a taste for BDSM. In this adults-only night of fantastical tales, anything goes.
Hosted by Virginia Gay, Romy Ash, Geoff Lemon, Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson and Ali McGregor will share a piece of self-penned smut about a celebrity or fictional character.
And just as the characters in these sex-soaked tales shed their inhibitions (and their clothes), our writers say goodbye to good taste and polite restraint, in favour of gasp-inducing humour and fantastical fun.
It’s all about sex, sex, sex … and celebrity.
Featuring
Ali McGregor
Ali McGregor is an opera and cabaret singer currently hosting the cult favourite Ali McGregor’s Late-Nite Variety-Nite Night at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson
Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson is a theatre-maker based in Melbourne.
She writes and performs with the female theatre collective I’m Trying To Kiss You - in fact, a return season of their acclaimed show I Know There’s A Lot Of Noise Outside But You Have To Close Your Eyes will be at La Mama during April. Most recently, she has performed with MKA in The Economist in Melbourne, Edinburgh and Brisbane, directed an all-female Romeo and Juliet at fortyfivedownstairs and wrote a play about herself called The Unspoken Word is “Joe” which won the 2012 Melbourne Festival Discovery Award.
She enjoys reality TV and internet dating in ways she has recently discovered are not altogether ironic.
Virginia Gay
Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be cop on Savage River (ABC), and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot about high finance. That last one, particularly, was a stretch.
She won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress for Calamity Jane, starred in the film Judy & Punch which premiered at Sundance, and wrote and directed her first short film Paper Cut, which made Tropfest finals.
In 2020 she wrote two new plays: an adaptation of Cyrano for MTC and The Boomkak Panto for Belvoir, which premiered December 2021. She starred in both and also co-directed The Boomkak Panto.
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Romy Ash
Romy Ash is a Melbourne-based writer. Her first novel Floundering was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. She is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. She has been anthologised in Best Australian Stories and Best Australian Essays.
Geoff Lemon
Geoff Lemon is a political satirist, sportswriter, spoken word performer, and editor of lit anthology Going Down Swinging.