Bottoming for Jesus [Preview Performance]

Name: Bottoming for Jesus [Preview Performance]
Start: 2026-07-26T18:00:00.000-07:00
End: 2026-07-26T20:00:00.000-07:00
Location: LINT

Family Affairs Studio

LINT

Los Angeles, CA

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About Event

GET AN EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK OF BOTTOMING FOR JESUS BEFORE IT HEADS TO EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL.

For over two years I've been developing my solo cabaret confession, Bottoming for Jesus — a show about holes and the lengths we go to fill them. Now, after a series of performances in Los Angeles, Portland, and the annual queer bacchanal Honcho Campout, we're taking it for month long run at the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Join us for an early evening performance and meditation on faith, sexuality, and the performances that we give in order to belong.

Hope to see you there!
- Michael

Schedule:

6pm - Doors open
6:30pm - Preview performance of Bottoming for Jesus
7:30pm - Q&A and Mingling
8pm - Fin

Can't attend? Please consider making a contribution to our crowdfunding campaign here. We have $19,500 to close by July 31st and any and all contributions get us closer to the finish line.

About Bottoming for Jesus

At fifteen, Michael R. Speciàle converted himself to Mormonism. No missionaries required. A closeted gay teenager in the Pacific Northwest, he built an entire belief system to contain what he couldn't face. Surprise! It didn't work. Tracing that journey through a kaleidoscope of spiritual absurdity and radical oversharing, Bottoming for Jesus is what Willamette Week calls "an audacious but essential work of art."

Through musical numbers, whiteboard theology, and sharp observational humor, the show traces what happens when the religious, sexual, and familial belief systems we build to survive start to crack, and what gets revealed in the wreckage.