Bisexual Sadness
by Jarrott Productions

Nov. 05 - Nov. 22

Faye is getting married to a man she truly loves, but at the same time wishing he was a woman. She’s sad that she will have to fight harder to be a part of the queer communities in which she’s always found a home.

Bisexual Sadness is about what it sounds like—the specific loneliness of being a bisexual woman in love with a straight man. It treats with curiosity and respect the questions of belonging, identity, cultural migrations and kinship.

And did we mention it’s a comedy?

 

Jarrott Productions Producing Artistic Director Will Gibson Douglas, whom you’ve seen on stage in our productions of Signficant Other, The Lifespan of a Fact, and The Shark is Broken, and who directed Home, I’m Darling and A Million More To Go, will direct this production, in its Southwest Regional Premiere.

 

From Will Gibson Douglas:

 

The title is a joke. It’s also completely true. That tension is the point.

 

Bisexual people are now the largest part of the LGBTQ+ community — and, according to recent research, they also report feeling the least connected to it.

 

We have our own specific issues, and our own specific privileges. India’s play brilliantly explores that complex specificity. It is messy. This “sadness” is one I know myself, and one I’ve seen in friends of mine, navigating relationships and marriages that will appear “straight” to everyone. How do you fit into a community you feel a part of, but no longer seem to fit into? Do you have to live in that “sadness” forever?

 

I don’t have a tidy answer. I don’t know if there is one. What I do have is a belief that the specificity of stories is what allows us to find truth in ourselves. You don’t have to be bisexual to know what it’s like to belong to more than one world at once, and to watch people insist you pick a side.

 

And somehow, the play is funny. Genuinely, in a real-life way. It also packs an absolute punch. It is messy.

 

I didn’t get to grow up seeing myself in stories. I am allowed to see myself in this one. I invite you to see yourself in it as well.

 

I’m grateful to India for trusting us with only the second production of this play ever, and immensely proud that Jarrott Productions gets to be the room where this story gets told specifically — a story that is not a stand-in for queerness generally, but as itself. I think you’re going to love it. I think it’s going to challenge you. And I look forward to both.

 

It is messy.

 

Will Gibson Douglas

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Bisexual Sadness
by India Kotis
Jarrott Productions

November 5 - 11, 2026

Trinity Street Playhouse, 4th floor of First Austin, 901 Trinity Street