Tender Loving Queers

Tender Loving Queers is a flashy, splashy, and guaranteed savvy queer comedy minifest at 18th & Union featuring your favorite funny folk alongside some fresh new faces. With curated stand-up by seasoned comics, new kids on the block, family-style storytelling, and a new solo explosion by minifest mastermind Woody Shticks, Tender Loving Queers overflows Seattle’s spot for small-batch theatre with heart, hilarity, and crystal-clear queers. Fight the bite of winter by filling up on quality queer comedy: come out, lean in, and #punchup!

Every night of Tender Loving Queers, Woody is coming in hot with kicky comedy and devastating discoveries in this sparkling solo explosion: Who Cares! Unpack your baggage on this bewildering trip through space and time - from the waterbeds of yore to the wastelands of tomorrow - as we boogie down into the existential vacuum and laugh our way through our favorite lies. Directed by The Libertinis and dripping with pizzazz, Woody and his favorite imaginary friends question who we are, where we’re going, and Who Cares!

Be here for the queers, on this brand-new snow date! Woody Shticks and his faggiest friends - VAL NIGRO (Hot Takes With Hot Dykes), MAX DELSOHN (Couth Buzzard Comedy Show), BOBBY HIGLEY (Sacrificial Tofu), MITCH MITCHELL (comedy faceplanter), and more - serve up tried-and-true stand-up comedy that’s guaranteed to be good for what ails you. Come for the farts, stay for the smarts.

If you too believe the children are our future, watch these troublemakers hit the mic for the first time. DIEGO ORTIZ VILLACORTA SANJUAN (Ballard High), ARI-ROSE RINEHART (Cornish), PARKER P. COCK (Cornish), NIKKO JAY JOHNSTON (Garfield High), FAB U . (UW), ALEXIE DARLING (UW), PEARL LAM (UW), and more are crafting material with industry pros and dropping knowledge in serious style. These youths are speaking truths to power!

Cherish your chosen family at 18th & Union by bringing food to spare and a story to share in this blaze of jokes, yolks, and all kinds of folks that make our queer community strong: TOOTSIE SPANGLES (The Libertinis), JÉHAN ÒSANYÌN (Earthseed), STRAWBERRY SHARTCAKE (Drag Superstar), GRAHAM DOWNING (Jet City Improv), JACKIE MIEDEMA (The Salty Licks), and SARAH KATE (Philly’s finest). Some of Seattle’s sweetest hearts will share side-splitting short stories about their families and invite you to do the same in a casual afternoon of fresh food and fun folks!