Hi, Are You Single?During his first visit to a gay bar, "the first thing I encountered was a staircase," Haddad shared at the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington, D.C., which partnered with Los Angeles's IAMA Theater Company for a virtual streaming of the play through February 28.For Haddad, staircases are both physical and metaphorical.
Haddad has a strong sex drive — the show opens with a cybersex exchange and doesn't lose steam from there. But in addition to stairs, he encounters stigmatizing "stares" in supposed queer safe spaces that close off romantic prospects.In Hi, Are You Single?, Haddad takes aim at the bigotry of others.