Naming All the Flowers I Could (NAF) is a multidisciplinary artists' association at the University of Michigan that supports the work of queer and female creators.

Founded in 2023 by Maddie Vassalo and Miles Hionis, NAF hatched the idea for a festival celebrating queer and female artists after attending the winter 2025 U-M School of Music, Theatre, and Dance's Performing Arts EXCELerator entrepreneurial fellowship program. NAF refined its plans for the fest, then submitted a proposal to U-M Stamps School of Art & Design's 2025 Big Idea Award.

NAF was awarded $25,000, and the All the Flowers Festival started to bloom.

According to a press release from NAF, All the Flowers Festival exists to "cultivate a community of like-minded artists and collaborators, forging new avenues for queer and female artists to tell their authentic stories and create work outside of traditional theater and film industry pathways. This plan included the idea for a festival as a showcase for queer and female theater makers, filmmakers, and performers to bring their work to the public, and to strengthen connections between University of Michigan programs."

All the Flowers Festival takes place at two U-M venues on North Campus—the Duderstadt Video Studio and Arthur Miller Theater—from Wednesday, February 4, to Saturday, February 7.

Here is the full list of performances:

The Midnight Hour
Wednesday, February 4, 6 pm
Duderstadt Video Studio
Tommy Donovan’s Midnight Hour, which airs every Thursday night just past prime time, has found its place amongst second-rate television programs. Exiled to the shadows of industry giants such as Milton Berle and Johnny Carson, Tommy Donovan is no “Mr. Television." In fact, he is barely “Mr. Midnight.” Desperate to up viewership, Donovan and his producer, Sam Alden, decide to invite controversial figures onto the show. This show uses the occult panic of the mid-'70s to turn a mirror to our own current media environment of headlines and spectacle. The Midnight Hour was written by student Lana Smith.

Bitter Party
Wednesday, February 4, 8 pm
Arthur Miller Theatre
The fact-checking department at The Washington Times has just gotten in some breaking news: The world is ending that day at 5 pm. The writers can go home and say bye to their families, but only once they get the article out. This new comedy—written and directed by Kate Goldman, Miles Hionis, and Maddie Vassalo—explores what happens when everything is falling apart around you, but you can’t do anything to stop it.

NeuroArts X FLYDLPHN X Alana Michelle
Thursday, February 5, 6 pm
Duderstadt Video Studio
NeuroArts Productions—a collective of arts and health practitioners, music therapists, and multidisciplinary artists that reimagines person-centered care through arts-based advocacy—teams up with chamber ensemble FLYDLPHN and dancer Alana Michelle for this one-night-only performance that looks to what the future could be for mental health treatment.

The Laugh of the Medusa
Thursday, February 5, 8 pm
Arthur Miller Theatre
The Laugh of the Medusa is a trans coming-of-age story about a mythological figure and a young writer who meet through the pages of a feminist essay. With the power of writing, they change each other’s lives and stories forever. Book, music, and lyrics by Thani Brant; directed by Megumi Nakamura.

Lauren Blair Smith Dance Company
Friday, February 6, 6 pm
Duderstadt Video Studio
Lauren Blair Smith Dance Company is a multidisciplinary, coming-of-age contemporary dance company established in Singapore in 2020. Our performances inspire and motivate audiences to spring up and take bold steps towards embracing one’s full potential in the arts and in life. Our motto, “Let’s break standards,” epitomizes our goal to revolutionize and destabilize typical approaches toward the conventional modern dance industry, both on stage and in the studios.

Tim Miller: A Body in the O
Friday, February 6, 8 pm
Arthur Miller Theatre
Climb along with internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller inside the giant O of the Hollywood sign—or as Shakespeare conjured it, “the wooden O” of all theatre and performance—where we try to take on the big themes of our time. Miller created this new work from his new book of performances and stories. His work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual, and political topography of his identity as a gay man.

Walk You Back to Your Car
Saturday, February 7, 6 pm
Arthur Miller Theatre
A new musical by Anderson Zoll and Maggie Brown, and directed by Gonzalo Delgado, Walk You Back to Your Car is a one-act musical that follows three couples as they walk back from a party to their cars. Instead of focusing on what happens inside, the show captures the fleeting, often overlooked moments of connection between the front door and the car. The couples’ stories weave in and out of each other, showing the different ways a relationship can shift in a single, brief walk. Some changes are subtle, some enormous, but all leave a lasting mark. It’s a reflection on holding onto a moment as long as we can, until we must inevitably say goodbye. Through laughter, longing, and unexpected honesty, the musical reminds us that often it’s the smallest encounters that shape the course of our lives.

NAF at Night
Saturday, February 7, 8:30 pm
Duderstadt Video Studio
Join host Karmen Khameleon (student Emilio Rodriguez) for a one-night-only drag show at the Duderstadt Video Studio.

"Naming All the Flowers Festival" runs from Wednesday, February 4, to Saturday, February 7, on the North Campus of the University of Michigan at the Duderstadt Video Studio and Arthur Miller Theater. Tickets are available here.