2016 MAC award winner, Doris Dear, the inner Housewife of Ray DeForest, returns to the Rumpus Room at Feinstein’s/54 Below for a one night only event! “The Doris Dear Mother’s Day Special” celebrates her mother Taffy and mother’s everywhere with her special guests… multiple award winner and recording artist Stacy Sullivan, Hansen Award winner and MAC award winner Meg Flather, award winning vocalist Shaynee Rainbolt and award winning singer extraordinaire, Lina Koutrakos. The Rumpus Room will be full of rousing numbers from Broadway and the radio … as well as original stories of how our Mother’s influence our inner “housewife”. So come join us in the Rumpus Room for a good old fashioned variety “special” that leaves you smiling and humming your whole way home.

Doris Dear has been featured in movies (Men in Black 3, The Normal Heart), TV shows (The Carrie Diaries), and heard around the world. The show was written by Dramatist Guild and SAG/AFTRA National LGBT Board Member Ray DeForest, directed by the award-winning director Lina Koutrakos and musical directed by the award-winning Rick Jensen.