Cameron Raasdal-Munro—Gangsta Baby (Play Text)
- Team Angelica
- Sep 20
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 15
Hastings, for rent boy/escort Junior and his graffiti artist trans half-brother Pete, is home. It's a neglected working class town on England's south coast, quiet except for the odd street brawl or two, where the views are epic but the water is brown, and opportunities - or anything to do - are far away. In the middle of a session with a client, Junior's thuggish absentee dad pops up out of the blue. Where has he been? Why does he want his son back? Why now?
Gangsta Baby is a deep, dark dive into the world of sex-work, drugs, internalised homophobia, betrayal, and the desperate need for love in the criminal classes.
This version of the text is of the September 2025 production, at Open Space Arts, Chicago, at which Gangsta Baby received its US premiere. An earlier version was presented at the Hope Theatre, London, in 2024.
CREDITS:
Writer: Cameron Raasdal-Munro
Director: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Produced by: G. Riley Mills & Kate Garassino
CAST:
Cameron Raasdal-Munro (‘Junior’)
Josh Odor (‘Senior’)
Jensen Knudsen (‘Pete’; ‘Remy’)
Bryan Nicholas Carter (‘Mitch’; ‘Jonno’; ‘Client’; ‘Rebecca’)
CREW/PRODUCTION:
Casting Director: Aaron Holland
Production Stage Manager: Marz Allswede
Lighting Design: Lex Newman
Set Design: Phoebe Huggett
Costume Design: Jade Andrews
Sound Design: Zach Stinnett
Intimacy Coordinator: Christa Retka
Violence Design: R&D Choreography
Dialect Coach: Jason A. Fleece
Props: Alex Tuscanes
Social Media Coordinator: Tadhg Mitchel
Public Relations: John Olson
Director, Open Space Arts: David Zak
Original Music: Rikki Beadle-Blair
Graffiti artist: David Flores
This extensively reworked and rewritten version of Gangsta Baby received its American premiere at Open Space Arts, 114 W. Wilson, Chicago, on September 19, 2025.
VIDEO
Cameron Raasdal-Munro and Rikki Beadle-Blair talk about Gangsta Baby.
PRESS
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