Performance
RED EYE X Drama Tops | KIN Artist Partnerships
Drama Tops | DADS
Dates
Sat, Sep 26, 12:30 am
Sun, Sep 27, 12:30 am
Pay as you wish, suggested $18-80.
If cost is a barrier, please email communications@redeyetheater.org for discount ticket options. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
September 25-26, 2026
DADS is Drama Tops' newest queer tragedy — a holesome, sci-fi dreamscape about fatherhood, grief, and what it means to make the world better when you're not sure you can.
Elby Brosch and Shane Donohue dive headfirst into the chaotic waters of loss and masculinity, mixing improvisation, athletic partnering, and sheer physical exhaustion to crack open the deepest parts of their queer grief. Part existential odyssey, part club night.
The show's velcro costumes, inflatable sculptures, and stage-sized set are designed to literally stick to and weigh down the performers — until a giant inflatable engulfs the stage entirely. A new world is created: organic, chaotic, beautiful.
Drama Tops blends nightlife and concert modern dance into something funny, rigorous, and hard to shake. DADS is their most ambitious work yet.
Red Eye is glad to be that room. Shane grew up in WI and the Twin Cities was a formative part of his art life. Shane also is in Red Eye’s professional network as he runs Velocity - Seattle’s center dedicated to contemporary dance.
Red Eye presents KIN Artists Partnerships, a four part series of artists that pass through Red Eye with one animating principle: relationship. Enduring relationship.
Red Eye is part of a national network of artistic inquiry — and KIN is a significant step toward showing up to that conversation with intention and honesty. KIN is a response to the shifting needs of commissioned work, an experiment in interrupting the transactional way we value artistry.
Every artist that is a part of KIN brings something different — different resources, histories, forms of capital. Every artist has a relationship to real people, to Red Eye, Minneapolis, to the Twin Cities, to people and practices and communities that make this ecosystem what it is.
If KIN is about relationships– relationships to people and places - KIN is also about relationships to commissioning models, and artistic inquiry as transcontinental experimentation. KIN artists are sifting through the tethered immediacy of today. KIN is about queer tragedy, reflection, bending autobiography, and grief. KIN is about what is summoned through difficulty, what we owe ourselves, and what happens after collective life changing conditions. KIN is the most hopeful survival strategy we can muster: make it up again and again. Believe in body, dancing and each other.
Photo by Salt Photo
Funding
The presentation of DADS was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. This project is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. This activity is made possible by the Cultural Districts Arts Fund granted by Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs. Red Eye Theater is additionally made possible by grants from the Jerome Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, and the Ruth Arts Foundation.
Accessibility
Red Eye’s space is fully wheelchair-accessible. Masks are highly encouraged. Some events require masking and masks will be available at the venue if you don't bring your own. Please only attend if you are feeling well, and if not, we are happy to change your tickets to a different day at no charge.
About the Artists
Drama Tops
Seattle's [self professed] hottest post-modern, nightlife performance duo, and now maybe group.
Drama Tops is comprised of Shane Donohue and Elby Brosch who make large scale dance performances, perform and produce nightlife events, and run residency programs. Based in Seattle, they have been making irreverent yet touching, impossibly ambitious, nerveracking, 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.
So buckle up your butts and come to the shows we make and produce, you might regret it but you won’t stop talking about it.