Oct 7
'Fire Island' Star Zane Phillips Slayed on the NYC Stage
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
He inspired lust on the big screen in "Fire Island," kept the laughter coming with his TV turn on the Kim Cattrall-starring queer sitcom "Glamorous," and kept the queer summer sizzling in the video for Bronze Avery's single, "Heatwave." Keeping his summer busy, out actor Zane Phillips jumped headlong into a play in New York City, despite a severely compressed production timeframe.
"The show, 'Pretty Perfect Lives,' opened at the Flea's Sam Theater in New York City on Aug. 17 for a limited engagement ending on Sept. 8," People Magazine relayed. "Described as a 'speculative-fiction play,' the powerful work follows an influencer couple, Tucker and Tiffany, who welcome a third person into their relationship as they navigate a virtual reality program."
The play "had a quick turnaround following his casting" as the character Tucker, and Phillips told the outlet all about it.
"When you're a lifestyle influencer, especially when you're in a couple, you are basically the platonic ideal of what a heterosexual couple should look like," Phillips explained. "And seeing that getting broken down and broken down and broken down and ripped apart a little bit. Yeah, I really liked the journey that he went through."
"But despite the actor's theater background, the speedy production process came as a surprise," People noted. "He was the first actor to be cast in the production at the end of May and then rehearsals picked up at the beginning of August – mere weeks before the curtain went up."
"When I was in theater in New York, I was doing musicals and those tend to require a little bit more runway," Phillips told the magazine. "Especially if you're planning workshops and out-of-town tryouts and all those things."
But it was a different story for "Pretty Perfect Lives"; the thirty-year-old hunk told People that the producers "[sped] this bad boy along."
Summer may be over but you can keep warm to some of the sexy pics Phillips has posted at his Instagram. Check them out below.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
