WHEN:
September 17 - November 16, 2025
WHERE:
Asylum NYC
123 E 24th St
NYC
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Inspired by a real 2022 Twitter thread asking, “Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?”, Slam Frank takes aim at the intersection of art, absurdity, and identity. The show reimagines Anne Frank’s life through a self-aware lens of overzealous inclusivity: Anita Franco is now a pansexual Latinx girlboss with a hip-hop diary flow; Peter Van Daan is a non-binary dancer struggling against gender norms; and Mister Van Daan, the lone cishet male, is literally worse than the Nazis.
And you, the audience, have the privilege of witnessing it.
CONTENT WARNING: Everything.
WHY IT MATTERS: Slam Frank has already gained viral momentum on social media without a marketing budget and has sold out performances in advance. The project was explicitly rejected by major development programs, most notably being disinvited from the BMI Musical Theater Workshop.
Despite this (or perhaps because of it), Slam Frank has amassed a surprisingly broad coalition of fans—from diversity advocates to anti-woke provocateurs, from Israeli survivors of the Nova Massacre to several of the internet’s most-followed anti-Israel streamers..."
