About Stage Fright Festival

The Stage Fright Festival, Portland’s only queer horror theater festival, is a ten-day showcase of original theater by professional and emerging independent artists of the highest artistic integrity, centering trans and queer creators and audiences. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll scream with delight. 

Join the Coho Theatre for a variety of performances and experiences. (Ticket prices vary.)

October 8: “Trick or Treat!”: Festival Preview & Trivia hosted by Frank and Friends

October 9 – 11: Disaster Fantasy

October 9, 17 & 18: Milk Tooth Wisdom Tooth

October 9, 16 & 17: The Final Girls: Late Show

October 10: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: A Spooky Storytelling Night and Open Mic

October 10, 15 & 18: My Gay Grandfather Was Abducted by Aliens, and Other True Stories

October 10, 11 & 14: Walpurgisnacht

October 11, 15 & 16: Stigmata Daemonis

October 11, 14 & 17: Everything Is Nothing and Alien Bodies

October 13: Scrypt Lab: Works by Leiana Petlewski and Emily Smith

October 16 – 18: A Hollywood Horror Story

October 17: CockRoach Church Featuring a Special Surprise Guest

October 18: The Macabre Cabaret