The Garden Brides

The Actors Trans Pride Weekender presents The Garden Brides

A heteropessismist horror comedy - The Garden Brides is the story of Teresa - a lonely housewife in a small english village who becomes mysteriously enamoured by her neighbour’s new garden gnome. She starts seeing it in strange dreams that become more passionate and… sensual? She forms an uneasy alliance with Catherine, another housewife who has also been drawn to the same lawn ornament. A deeper and more confusing connection builds between the two women as they fall deeper into their psychosexual gnome cult. A surreal tale of otherworldly desire written by and starring punk rock cabaret icon Charlie Wood.

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Charlie Wood (WRITER + PERFORMER)

Charlie Wood is an artist, performer, writer and musician based in London. Their surreal, witty and passionate work has been seen everywhere from Glastonbury Festival and the Southbank Centre to Virginia Woolf’s old house, a puppet boat and just about all of the queer basements of London. They are the cohost and producer of the cult favourite cabaret night Miss Ellaneous along with Frankie Thompson and the lead singer of viral orchestral punk band THWACK!. Their award winning debut play collection DEATH KARAOKE premiered this year at The Divine.

@Charlieprobablywood | www.charliewoodcreates.com

Praise for Charlie Wood’s work: “The best writer we have in the fringe world right now” - Lachlan Werner

“Wonderful” - John Cameron Mitchell

“Delicious, hilarious, surprising, heartbreaking and beautiful” - Hunter Manning

REBECCA SOLOMON (DIRECTOR)

Rebecca is an award-winning choreographer, theatre maker-director and circus artist. Starting as a dancer, she won competitions throughout the UK and Europe. She shifted her practice towards circus in 2018 and began her artistic career with standout performances in Hive City Legacy (2018), Fierce Sisters (2018) and Splash! (2019). She has toured nationally and internationally and worked with many of the UK biggest contemporary circus companies (Upswing, Mimbre, Cirque Bijou, Extraordinary Bodies, Jacksons Lane, Revel Pucks Circus), as well as performing at the Roundhouse and the MOBO Awards with Kojey Radical. Since 2021 she has been forging her career as a director, starting with her semi-autobiographical show Second-Hand Child (2021). She has been an assistant director for We Could All Be Perfect (2023), Is Dat U Yh? (2024) and By Their Fruits (2024) for which she was nominated for best choreography at the Off West End Awards. She has gone on to be Associate Director/Circus Director of the UK premier Andre Campra’s Opera, Le Carnaval de Venise, staged by Vache Baroque. She is an associate director at Mimbre and associate artist at Upswing.

www.createdbycolomon.com | @createdbysolomon

Elspeth Day-Collins (ACTOR)Since graduating Mountview, Elspeth first performed in News Revue at The Canal Cafe Theatre and went on to join the Edinburgh Fringe cast for the run at The Pleasance Grand. She then returned to the Fringe and onto The Other Palace with Wallis: A New Musical playing Lady Cunard. She has recently appeared as Jas J and Evie in Dead Famous at The Lowry. Earlier this year she played Sofia in In and Out of Knowing at The Other Palace. Most recently she played Lorina in Lewis Carroll at The Other Palace.@elspethdaycollins

YASMIN M. KHAN (PRODUCER)

Yasmin is an Italian-Pakistani and Hungarian scriptwriter, producer, & cabaret performer AKA Kit Khan. Their villain arc started with film and musical theatre training, moving naturally into queer basements, drag and burlesque. They earned an MFA (masters of f*cking arts) in Writing at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, and trained on the Soho Theatre Writer’s Lab, Kali Theatre Discovery Lab, Soho Theatre Drag Lab, BAFTA winner Ben Blaine’s Screenwriting Course, The Bitten Peach, and Soho School of Burlesque. Their short play SPOT premiered at Theatre 503 with Kali Theatre in 2024, followed by AM I GAY ENOUGH TO GO TO HEAVEN? commissioned by Peripeteia Theatre in 2024. Kit Khan has performed at formerly mentioned RVT, The Yard (with Charlie’s MISS E!) The Divine, LAB, Glastonbury Festival, and other iconic stages and fields. As an independent producer & self-appointed CMO of cabaret collective Drag It Out, their producing credits include an ever-growing range of cabaret nights in London’s queer scene, and some very serious non-gay non-basementy theatre productions across the US and UK.

www.yasminmkhan.com | @yasminskittle | @thekitkhan