The Virgin Missile Crisis

Written by Hoyt Hilsman
Directed by Bryan Langlitz

February 19–20, 2026

It’s October 1962, and the world is changing fast. So fast, in fact, that a U-2 spy plane soaring over Cuba warns us the whole dang thing may end tomorrow. But for fifteen-year-old Duncan Ambrose, the one thing more terrifying than imminent nuclear annihilation…would be dying a virgin. Set during the white-knuckled days leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, this coming-of-age comedy ricochets between the fuzzy hope of adolescent dreams and the harsh reality of what it means to become a man. Quick question: What does it mean to become a man? Duncan Ambrose would really like to know.