Dan Kitrosser is KAREN TENDERNESS in QUEER WINDOW!

Overview

Karen Tenderness lives to belt an 11 o’clock number—at 7pm. But when one note too many shatters her living room window, she replaces it… only to discover she’s installed a queer window (Yes, really). Now everything she sees through it becomes queerer, sexier, and infinitely more dramatic.

Peering into her neighbors’ lives, Karen uncovers secrets, sparks romances, and spins wild fantasies. But what happens when she sees something she really shouldn’t?

A solo musical thriller that puts cock back in Hitchcock, Queer Window is campy, creepy, and dripping in high notes and low morals. Starring Fringe Favorite Dan Kitrosser (HOMOS! Smooth!), the show unfolds in the Magic Gardens Studio, surrounded by Isaiah Zagar’s iconic mosaics.

 

Dan Kitrosser is a participant in Philly Fringe Postcards, peer-to-peer review experiment created for the 2025 Fringe by Savannah Reich.

About the Artist

Dan Kitrosser is a playwright, performer, and screenwriter whose work has been called “messy, obnoxious, and all over the place... spectacularly free and fun” (Vulture), “smart, original, refreshing, and maybe even necessary” (The New Yorker), and “an uncut gem” (The New York Times).
Their award-winning solo show HOMOS! A Solo Disaster Musical—recipient of the 2023 Philly Fringe Festival Award—is performed nationally, with a monthly residency at the iconic Stonewall Inn. Dan’s internationally touring play TAR BABY received an Amnesty International Citation of Excellence.
As co-writer of the Sundance breakout We the Animals, Dan earned the NEXT Innovator Award, Best Narrative at Outfest, five Independent Spirit Award nominations, and a GLAAD Award nomination.
They host the iHeartRadio podcast SVETLANA! SVETLANA!, a ten-part audio deep dive into their obsession with Josef Stalin’s daughter. Dan is the Artistic Director of Writopia Lab’s Worldwide Plays Festival, Director of the Orchard Project Audio Lab, and teaches screenwriting at Temple University.
They live in South Philadelphia with their fabulous husband, Jordan, and their narcissistic dog, Gemma.

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