Apollo Theatricals is a New York City-based production company dedicated to developing bold, character-driven, often gay-centric, work that explores life with equal parts humor and heart. Founded in 2025 by Anastas Varinos, Dino Petrera, and Dakota Patrick, Apollo aims to tell stories that celebrate the shared absurdity, resilience, and humanity that connect us all.
Through new plays, readings, and developmental productions, we champion emerging voices and create space for stories that are both deeply personal and universally recognizable: especially those that often go untold.
As a young company, every donation directly supports our artistic work—from paying artists and securing rehearsal space to producing readings, workshops, and fully staged productions. Contributions help us bring new work to audiences while ensuring artists are compensated for their labor and creativity.
PAST PROJECTS
- O: A New Odyssey for Gay Men and the Women Who Love Them
- Staged Reading benefiting Birmingham AIDS Outreach (June 2025)
- BABY COW
- Presented as part of Red Mountain Theatre's Human Rights New Works Festival (September 2025)
UPCOMING PROJECTS
- O: A New Odyssey for Gay Men and the Women Who Love Them
- New York Theatre Festival (Summer 2026)
This summer, Apollo Theatricals will bring O to New York audiences as part of the New York Theatre Festival. Your support helps us advance this new work from development to production.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Odysseus...ish. Classics professor Oscar never considered himself a hero—but life has other plans. Freshly separated from his wife of 5 years and newly out of the closet, Oscar stumbles through his new life as a gay man. With him on the journey are a crew consisting of his best friend Penny, his well-intentioned mother, and a Narrator who speaks inexplicably, and annoyingly, in blank verse. It's a Homer-erotic tale for the ages.