Drama Tops
Photo credit: Salt Photography
Drama Tops is comprised of two faggots who make large scale dance performances, perform and produce nightlife events, and run residency programs. Based in Seattle, Elby Brosch, the trans fag, and Shane Donohue, the tall one, have been making irreverent yet touching, impossibly ambitious, nerve-racking, and thrilling works since 2017.
Their evening length works include, the nationally touring work, “DADS,” premiered at Washington Ensemble Theater, has toured to TBA at PICA in Portland, OR, and on its way to Red Eye in Minneapolis, MN and University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA; their smash hit "Boys!
Boys! Boys!" presented in Velocity Dance Center's Made in Seattle program; and their self produced show, “Drama Tops, this is for you”, at Washington Hall. Drama Tops is proud to be a 2024 National Dance Project Recipient.
Drama Tops frequently guests at drag and variety shows in Seattle including “Tush!” at Clock-Out Lounge, “High F@ggontry” at The Unicorn, “Family Meal” and “Sissy Butch” at Kremwerk, and “Heels!” at Cha Cha. They also produce nightlife events including “Trauma Tops” at Kremwerk, “After Parties” for “Boys! Boys! Boys!” and “DADS”, and co-produces “Queers in Motion” at The Cuff Complex with Miss Texas 1988.
Additionally, Drama Tops curates and runs a residency program called “Off the Lead” in which they provide rehearsal space, stipends, nonhierarchical feedback sessions, and a free public in process showing for three Seattle Queer artists every six months. Off the Lead Alumni include Stasia Coup, Jenna Eady, Kelly Langeslay, Miss Texas 1988, Bennyroyce Royon, and Natalie Fernandi.
