THROUPLE
Throuple was invited by the Tribeca Film Festival to participate in its 2023 Creators Market. As a script, Throuple advanced in the 2021 Sundance Development Track, placed among the top of all entries in the 2020 Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowship, was the winner of the 2020 NYU Tisch Institute of Performing Arts Grant, and was a semi-finalist for the 2019 Creative Capital Fund.
SYNOPSIS:
Michael, a lonely gay musician, is terrified of exploring romantic intimacy and pursuing his dreams of performing on stage. He has gotten comfortable relying on his best friend, Tristan, and her girlfriend, Abby, for support and affection. However, when he meets a newly open married couple, Georgie and Connor, the three men enter into a relationship that is more intimate and vulnerable than any of them ever expected.
The film stars Michael Doshier, who wrote the screenplay, Jess Gabor and Tommy Heleringer. It is produced by Emmi Shockley, Kara Bartek, and Phil Hughes and executive produced by Nahnatchka Khan and Julia Bicknell. Greyson Horst directs.
DIRECTED & EDITED by Greyson Horst
Greyson Horst is a director and editor from Sacramento whose short film, The Bugs and the Slugs, premiered at Slamdance 2022. Greyson completed two years at Chapman where he studied narrative film and documentary before spending two years at NYU Tisch, where he dove headfirst into experimental and genre filmmaking.
WRITTEN & PERFORMED by Michael Doshier
Michael Doshier is a writer, actor, and musician whose work focuses on the often-overlooked intricacies of the queer coming-of-age experience. His screenwriting has won the Missouri Stories Competition and NYU’s Venable Herndon Award. He has written and performed acclaimed Fringe Festival solo shows and sings with Darlin! The Band.
Doshier says, “Being selected for the 2023 Slate is a game-changer for an indie feature film like Throuple for many, many reasons. First of all, the Production Lab has helped bring to life some truly amazing films at varying stages in their journey. It’s an honor to join that lineage – and have our film be a part of this larger ecosystem of boundary-pushing cinema coming out of NYU. Secondly, as young filmmakers who have made their very first feature, the resources and guidance have been indescribably invaluable. As a team, we now feel confident we can navigate anything that comes our way because the Lab has our back.”