What advice does a 79-year old Native South Carolinian give to a “Nice young man” looking for liquid eyeliner at her makeup counter?
What’s the best way to describe sex reassignment surgery while wearing stiletto heels and kid gloves?
What happens when a debutante comes out feminist?
Or when a lesbian turns transgender?

Making its own debut this in the Fall, 2004, Debutante Balls is a comedic look at coming of age and coming out, taken from the perspective of one queer white Southerner.

Three gala balls, two Southern towns, one leopard-print dress: Do you have the balls to be a Debutante?

The show’s creator and solo performer, Scott Turner Schofield
(the performance artist formerly known as Kt Kilborn), relates the history of the Debutante Ball as a social institution.

Weaving stories from his personal experience to highlight the problematic
– but often hilarious – issues of gender, sexuality, race, and class inside the
“silk wallpapered walls of Southern High Society,” he has created a show the
Atlanta Journal Constitution called “funny, …revealing, whip-smart and poetic.”

As is trademark in Scott Turner Schofield’s work, all due attention is paid to the complexities and contradictions of out-of-place identities in unbelievable, but all-too-real contexts. Schofield negotiates these questions and more with slapstick humor and gender transformation – Gala Ball style – in this generous and insightful new solo work.