Eternal Flamer! The Ballad of Jessie Blade

About the Project

A GAY 80s MELODRAMA TOLD IN 70 AWESOME MINUTES

👗 AUDIENCE ATTIRE 👗1980s-inspired looks are encouraged!

In this neon-coated farce, wide-eyed Jessie Blade flees his Midwest home for the bright lights of the City that Never Sleeps (with the same person twice), only to get sucked into a labyrinth of sex, “angel dust”, and DANCE.


This totally campy 70-minute melodrama follows Jessie as he accidentally becomes the top go-go dancer at the Gomorrah Nightclub in 1980s New York. The Madam (drag queen and owner of the club) takes Jessie under her sequined wing as he loses his innocence amid nasty competition with the club’s resident dancer, the dastardly Billy Panache.


Eternal Flamer! The Ballad of Jessie Blade is written by Tommy Jamerson, Josh Julian, & James Tison, is directed by Matthew ZanFagna, and co-designed by ZanFagna and Gnosis, produced by Gnosis, with associate producer Alyssa Barron.

For artist bios and more info, pop over to EternalFlamerFringe.com

~CAST~

🕺 JESSIE BLADE 🕺
James Tison* (Safeword, Off-Broadway)

💋 THE MADAM 💋
Ross Knight (Work In Progress, HereTV)

🔞 BILLIE PANACHE 🔞
Jordan Paradise

🎸 RUDY 🎸
Gnosis (John Cameron Mitchell’s Nation of One)

🍈 MAMMA BLADE 🍈
Joan Nelson (Urinetown, Off-Broadway)

😜 MUFFY DIVER 😜
Giselle Austria

👄 MONICA 👄
Sadé Ayodele (Fallout, Amazon)

🤼‍♀️ SKIP 🤼‍♀️
Tanner Hayes (UCB)

*denotes member of Actors Equity Association

~DESIGNERS~

GNOSIS
👗 Costumes & Makeup
📽 Projections & Video
🎬 Lead Producer

MATTHEW ZANFAGNA
☎️ Scenic & Props
🎼 Sound 
💡 Lighting

🚨 CONTENT WARNING: simulated sex & drug use, language, puppets, drag, terrible dancing

This production is being presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Association Los Angeles Self-Produced Project Code.