Queer Rom-Com ‘Throuple’ to Premiere at Boston Wicked Queer

Throuple, a new queer rom-com set in New York’s indie music scene, is set to premiere this weekend at Boston Wicked Queer Film Festival. 

The film follows a gay indie musician, Michael, who is terrified of both exploring his dreams and romantic intimacy. When he meets a married couple, Connor and Georgie, in a newly open relationship, all three men enter into a more vulnerable and transformative relationship than any of them ever imagined. All the while, Michael fears that he is losing his best friend to her girlfriend.

Directed by first-time feature director Greyson Horst and produced by Kara Bartek, Emmi Shockley, and Phil Hughes, Throuple reimagines the idea of a rom-com by depicting this unconventional love story through common rom-com beats and challenging the norms of conventional studio filmmaking in both subject and style. 

Screenwriter Michael Doshier stars as Michael the musician and is supported by a wonderful cast of actors to watch out for: Jess Grabor (Shameless, The Machine), Tristan Carter-Jones (frontwoman of the band Dakota Jones), Stanton Plummer-Cambridge (Have We Met Before?), and Tommy Heleringer (The Outs, Gayby). 

The film has a highly accomplished list of executive producers made up of Nahnatchka Khan, director of Always Be My Maybe and producer of American Dad and Fresh Off the Boat, her wife Julia Bicknell, producer of Yellowjackets, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Midnight Club, and Tristan Scott-Behrands, director of several gay short films including Only Trumpets and The Man of My Dreams.

Throuple is one of the three films supported by the New York University Production Lab Slate and one of the eight feature films selected for the 2023 Tribeca Creators Market. After its highly anticipated world premiere at Boston Wicked Queer Film Festival, the film will go on a U.S. and international festival run. 

Photo courtesy of Throuple