Description

In this queer romantic comedy, college freshmen discover themselves and each other at a school everyone calls “Love U.” Mia is a small town bookworm far from home for the first time. Jae is a big city track star still finding her way when it comes to academics. Sparks fly when Mia and Jae meet at the Love U library, and Jae tells a little white lie: that she’s just as much of a reader as Mia. To keep up the pretense, Jae enlists the help of a knowledgeable friend. But the more Mia falls, the more Jae struggles to maintain her fiction. Can she prove to Mia (and herself) that she’s more than just a “dumb jock”? With emotionally honest songwriting and an all-queer cast of characters, LOVE U is a life-affirming coming of age tale for students of the human heart.

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LOVE U

Book by Nicole Jost

Music and Lyrics by Maggie Grabmeier

CAST:

Julia Wright as Mia

Lucca Troutman as Jae

Lena Sibony as Kelsey

Keli'i Salvador as Phoenix

Benjamin Hoàng Nguyễn as Isaac

Emma Gardner as Ember

Rae Yuen as Ava

Al R. Niotta as Ollie

Director: Ciera Eis

Music Director: Jord Liu

Guitarist: Tennessee Mowrey

This production has achieved two TBA Highlights!

The Reflection Achievement. The Bay Area is beautifully diverse and so is this production.

The Homegrown Achievement. This production is creating jobs and creative opportunities right here in the Bay Area.

What are TBA Highlights? We're honoring incredible productions across the Bay that are driving the future of theatre forward. The Highlights program uplifts specific shows that have met the important benchmarks required to earn one (or more) of our four achievements: Homegrown Achievement, Going Green Achievement, Reflection Achievement, and Open Doors Achievement. When you see one of these badges you can expect to see theatre produced, rehearsed, and performed according to these values.

This production is supported by the CA$H Theatre Grant Program.

The CA$H Theatre Grant Program — short for Creative Assistance for the Small (Organization) and Hungry (Artist) — provides vital financial support to individual theatre artists and small theatre companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1999, these grants support a range of creative projects artists and companies need, from capacity-building projects to fully-produced public performances.

Read about the most recent CA$H Theatre Grant recipients, projects funded in Spring 2024.