Timoth David Copney
Timoth David Copney is well known in Baltimore and beyond, having performed, directed, or choreographed more than 60 productions in the area for the past 25 years. A classically trained dancer, he has done several tours across the country and worked with a number of musical theatre stars, including Eartha Kitt, Florence Henderson, Liz Torres and Lee Merriweather. He is the former theatre columnist for Baltimore Gay Life Magazine, a former writer for DC Metro Theatre Arts, and writes for BroadwayWorld.com, MD Theatre Guide, and BmoreArt. He sits on the steering committees of both the Arts and Culture Council and the Queer Jewish Arts Council, while serving on the Board of Trustees of Bolton Street Synagogue. Previously, he was the Vice President of the Baltimore Theatre Alliance and Chair of the Baltimore Playwright Festival, where he now serves as the Advisor to the Executive Committee. He was the Artistic Director of Liberty Showcase Theatre and has been a member of several local theatre boards. He is also a member of the American Theatre Critics Association. He has performed his cabaret show at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Spirits, and ClubCar, and other Baltimore area music venues.
Stories by Timoth David Copney
Ludlam wrote the play in the 1980s, and the current production at Everyman Theatre proves the genre has resonated for not only decades but centuries—still just as luridly, in this case also hilariously, entertaining.
Future Ghost, a Queer performance collective that is the brainchild of Lyam B. Gabel and Joseph Amodei, created the production out of a desire to bring light to not just the disease, but to the people who experienced and lived through this uniquely disastrous phenomenon.
What happens when two women, each born into royal circumstances with claims to the throne of England, grow up to become bitter rivals? We have the makings of an imperial tale of political and religious intrigue that is as riveting now as it must have been almost 500 years ago.
According to writer John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig is “more than a woman or a man. She's a gender of one and that is accidentally so beautiful."