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2022

2022 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival

Breaking the Binary Theatre presented the inaugural Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival in October of 2022.

Throughout the week of October 10-16, 2022 (coinciding with LGBTQ+ History Month and National Coming Out Day), seven teams of TNB2S+ playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, stage managers, and performers (yes, even in roles written for cis folks!) came together at Theatre Row to develop and showcase new work created by and for TNB2S+ artists.

The 2022 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival welcomed over 650 attendees to eight reading presentations.

All tickets were complementary.

Over $70,000 was paid out to over 100 TNB2S+ artists.

All creative decisions were made by TNB2S+ artists.

Co-Curators: Dominique Rider and Josephine Kearns (she/her)
Cultural Consultant: Samuel Morreale (they/them)
Line Producer: rohr driscoll
Casting Director: The Telsey Office / Charlie Hano, CSA
Marketing Advisor: Molly Barson (they/them)
Social Media Manager: Robert Ackerman (he/him)

TRANS WORLD by Ty Defoe (he/we/ty)

*Monday, October 10, 2022 at 7pm*
Directed by Dominique Rider
Dramaturgy by Josephine Kearns (she/her)
Stage Management by Sami Binder (they/them)
Featuring: b (they/them/b), Carolina Đỗ (she/her), Essence Lotus (she/her), Futaba Shioda (he/him/his), Logan Rozos (he/him), Maybe Burke (they/she), MJ Rawls (she/her/hers), Samy Nour Younes Figaredo (he/him/they/them)
Stage Directions read by Zainab Barry (she/they)

TWITCH by Liliana Padilla (they/them)

*Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 7pm*
Directed by Jack Ferver (they/them)
Dramaturgy by Desiree S. Mitton (she/they)
Assistant Directed and Stage Management by Annika Prager (they/them)
Featuring Jojo Brown (she/her/hers), Joslyn DeFreece (she/they), Marilee Talkington (she/they), Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir), Spencer Weidie (they/them), and TL Thompson (they/them/T)
Stage Directions read by Meghan Piper Johnson (mpj) (they/them)

HIDE AND HIDE by Roger Q. Mason (they/them)

*Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7pm*
Directed by é boylan (they/them)
Dramaturgy by Gaven Trinidad (they/he/siya)
Stage Management by Mars Neri (they/them)
Featuring Ayla Sullivan (they/he) and Han Van Sciver (they/them)
Stage Directions read by Eliana Coe (they/she)

WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY by ruth tang (they/them)

*Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 7pm*
Directed by Kedian Keohan (they/he)
Dramaturgy by Lewis Fender (he/him)
Stage Management by Elyse Durand (they/she)
Featuring Morgan Sullivan (he/they), Sagan Chen (they/he), and Z Infante (they/them)
Stage Directions read by Marisa Budnick (she/they)

NANA by Aziza Barnes

*Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7pm*
Directed by Rad Pereira (they/them)
Dramaturgy by Al Parker (they/them)
Stage Management by Joseph Distl (he/they)
Featuring Alex Lugo (they/she), B Alexander (they/them), Becca Blackwell (they/them), Ianne Fields Stewart (she/they), J Riley Jr. (she/they), Lily Dominique (she/they), Mele Sabú (they/them), and Mia Sterbini (they/she)
Stage Directions read by Zainab Barry (she/they)

THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE by Mara Vélez Meléndez (she/her)

*Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 7pm*
Directed by Sivan Battat (she/they)
Dramaturgy by Aydan Shahdadpuri (they/he)
Stage Management by Nat Kelley DiMario (they/them)
Assistant Directed by Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir)
Featuring Alex Might (her), Che’Li (they/them), Nora Schell (they/them), and Tẹmídayọ Amay (they/them/friend)

OVERHEARD: Fifteen Commissioned Monologues Written by TNB2S+ Artists for TNB2S+ Artists

*Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 3pm and 7pm*
Co-conceived by L Morgan Lee (she/her) and George Strus (they/them)
by A.A Brenner (they/them/he), Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they), Bianca Leigh, Else Went (they/she), Isaac Gómez (they/them), Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (they/she), Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi (she/her), Liqing Xu (they/she), Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (he/they), Sam Hamashima (they/them), Sharifa Yasmin (she/her), Sylvan Oswald (he/him), Timothy DuWhite (pronoun inclusive), travis l. tate (they/them), and Victor I. Cazares (they/them).
Directed by L Morgan Lee (she/her)
Dramaturgy by George Strus (they/them)
Monologue prompt created by Dominique Rider and Josephine Kearns (she/her)
Assistant Directed by Mika Kauffman (they/them/ze/zir)
Featuring Basit (they/them), Bianca Leigh, Evie Schuckman (they/them), L Morgan Lee (she/her), and yannick-robin eike mirko (they/he)
Stage Directions read by Ayla Sullivan (they/he)

In October of 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre co-hosted an Affinity Night for BTB Artist **Victor I. Cazares**’ **AMERICAN (TELE)VISIONS** at New York Theatre Workshop alongside The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center and PEN America. Victor participated in a post-show talkback alongside BTB Artists **Gaven Trinidad** and **Rad Pereira** (and Brian Otaño).

In November of 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre hosted a Trivia and Game Night via Signature Theatre Company’s SigSpace initiative. BTB Artist Z Infante hosted.