Victoria (in LA w/Livestream)

Victoria is an immersive séance-comedy set in a rickety circus tent, where a modern-day medium dares to call back the spirit of Victoria Woodhull: clairvoyant, suffragist, stockbroker, and the first woman to run for U.S. president. Victoria bursts back onto the scene not only to haunt us, but to check on the seeds she sowed: have her ideas taken root, have her laws been passed, has the world finally caught up to her vision? With a wink, a cackle, and plenty of theatrical smoke, the piece blends satire, ritual, and biography in a playful collision of past and present. Part séance, part sideshow, and entirely queer & uncontainable.

Louie Rinaldi (they/them) is a queer writer-actor-producer who was raised by a Puerto Rican-Itailan delivery driver and a French-Irish beautician on eastern Long Island. Louie was last seen live directing Magda’s show The Actress in The Vault and in Love Chicken: The Musical also at The Elysian. Louie’s highlighted credits include: Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin (Cannes), Bria Simoné Hendrson’s award winning Virginality (Micheaux ’23); FOX’s APB, Abe Koogler’s play Kill Floor at American Theatre Company, and Sia’s music video You’ve Changed. Louie is an alumni of Bay Street’s Young Playwright Program and graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago. Louie co-founded Stacking Doll Productions with creative partner Zoe Tyson; under which they co-wrote & starred in F#@% Julie! (Nom Best Play HFF) Most recently Louie had their poetry collection Poems and Dream Fragments published in Fecund Magazine, and will be debuting their show Victoria at The Elysian Theatre in LA this fall. Louie is represented by Aqua Talent, CESD & Stewart Talent.

Starts/streams 4PM PT/7PM ET