Tony winners Alan Cumming and Billy Porter have joined the producing team for Sam Morrison's solo play Sugar Daddy.
The production has set a West Coast premiere at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills September 20-October 13, with opening night set for September 29. A 2025 Broadway bow is next on the horizon, with details to be announced.
In addition to Cumming and Porter, Edgewood Entertainment is producing, with Stephen Brackett (A Strange Loop) at the helm.
Written and performed by Morrison, the work sees the artist grappling with the death of his partner from COVID-19, and transforming his grief into humor on a journey of love, loss, diabetes, seagull attacks, and a few extraordinary coincidences. The work premiered at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022, and played a multi-extended run at Off-Broadway's SoHo Playhouse in 2023.
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“I'm thrilled to join Sam Morrison’s Sugar Daddy as a producer,” said Cumming. “Sam is an incredible performer and writer, and this show is revelatory. He tackles personal grief not just with humor but with such bold tenderness and insightful vision. It’s fresh, it’s full of heart and it’s really dirty, and I can’t wait to help bring this incredible story into more people’s lives.”
"Joining the producing team for Sugar Daddy is an exhilarating opportunity to champion a story that is both daring and deeply human,” Porter added. “I’m thrilled to support this groundbreaking play that challenges conventions and celebrates authenticity.”
The production will feature scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, lighting design by Jennifer Schriever, sound design by Sinan Zafar, and video and projection design by Alex Basco Koch.
