REMEMBRANCE
Breaking the Binary Theatre and Lincoln Center are teaming up to present REMEMBRANCE, a collection of interdisciplinary performances created by ten transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) artists rekindling the memories of TNB2S+ siblings we have lost in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance.
REMEMBRANCE
co-conceived by George Strus (they/them) and Noax (they/them)
featuring
B Noel Thomas
Ianne Fields Stewart
Julie J
Kailin Brown
Mei Ann Teo
Morgan Bassichis
N’yomi Allure Stewart
Sara Ramirez
Storm Thomas
Ty Defoe
Thursday, November 20 at 7:30PM
David Rubenstein Atrium
REMEMBRANCE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY REVUE is free for all.
There are two ways to access this free event:
1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up!
2. A limited number of Lincoln Center Fast Track tickets will become available at 12pm ET on Monday, October 17. For more information on how to book them, please visit Lincoln Center’s website below:
B Noel Thomas
B Noel Thomas is a versatile performing artist and educator originally from Oakland, currently based in New York. A graduate of Oakland School for the Arts, she began her journey as a standout member and award-winning choreographer of the nationally recognized a cappella group Vocal Rush. Her distinct baritone-to-soprano vocal range allows her to take on a wide variety of roles across gender and musical style. She is passionate about storytelling, representation, and believes deeply in her personal motto: “Aspire to Inspire.”
Her career spans stage and screen, blending powerful vocals, movement, and heart. She was featured on ABC’s American Idol and appeared in Theatre Forward’s 2021 Virtual Gala, performing alongside Jason Robert Brown, Kate Baldwin, George Salazar, Anika Noni Rose, and more. Her theatrical credits include The Toxic Avenger, for which she received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award and a Theatre Bay Area Award nomination, and Sister Act as Deloris, which also earned her a Theatre Bay Area Award nomination.
Whether on stage, in the classroom, or through community-driven projects, B Noel Thomas continues to challenge expectations and create space for new voices. With a fearless spirit and a deep love for the craft, she brings joy, depth, and authenticity to everything she does.
Whether on stage, in the classroom, or through community-driven projects, B Noel Thomas continues to challenge expectations and create space for new voices. With a fearless spirit and a deep love for the craft, she brings joy, depth, and authenticity to everything she does.
Ianne Fields Stewart
Ianne Fields Stewart (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based storyteller working at the intersection of performance and activism.
Ianne recently appeared on Peacock's Devil in Disguise: The John Wayne Gacy Story as Sophia St. Laurent. Other Film and TV Credits include: Pose (Pretty Bartender), The Bold Type (Chloe Blair), and Dash and Lily (Roberta). Ianne also performed alongside Sara Ramirez (Grey's Anatomy) as part of a polyamorous couple in the 3-Time Emmy-Nominated web series, The Feels.
Ianne made their Off-Broadway debut in Sarah Mantell's In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot at Playwrights Horizons under the direction of Sivan Battat. New York audiences have seen Ianne perform at such venues as: Joe’s Pub, Lincoln Center, Gibney Center, Little Island, and many more. Ms. Stewart was also the 2022 honoree for the Lucille Lortel Awards Toast.
As a writer, Ianne coauthored LGBTQ Organizing Beyond “Low-Hanging Fruit”: A Qualitative Examination of Safe Schools Coalitions in the United States South which received the 2015 SOGIE Award and was published in the Journal of Community Practice in 2017. Ianne's work was also published in Breaking the Binary's DARE: Scenes and Monologues for TNB2S+ Artists. Ianne's first play, A Dying Breed premiered at Judson Church and enjoyed a subsequent run at Coalescence Theater Project in Normal, IL. Most notably, on May 10, 2024, A Complicated Woman (the musical Ianne has been the book writer for since 2018) premiered at Goodspeed Musicals. The musical was directed by Jeff Calhoun with Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Brielle and additional lyrics by Sam Salmond. The cast featured Tony Nominee L Morgan Lee, Nora Brigid Monahan, and an incredible ensemble of performers.
A 2021 inaugural Logo Legend for co-organizing the Brooklyn Liberation March which gathered a historic 15,000 people to march for Black Trans lives, Ianne also founded The Okra Project in 2020. In summer 2024, Ianne and Flower Rios created and co-facilitated the talkback and performance series that accompanied the late Cecilia Gentili's Red Ink at Rattlestick Theater. Ianne’s media credits include: Deutsche Welle, BBC News, Vogue.com, Out Magazine, Forbes.com, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, The New York Public Library, Buzzfeed, Playbill.com, Broadway.com, GLAAD, and Inside Edition.
Julie J
Julie J (she/her/hers) is a New York City-based actress, drag artist, and community organizer. Julie stars in the upcoming horror comedy film Queens of the Dead, currently in theaters. She has been featured in advertising campaigns for Maybelline, Sephora, Dieux Skincare, and stars in the Webby Award-winning luxury jewelry brand's web series: Alexis Bittar. In 2023, she was named MISS BUSHWIG at the nation’s largest drag festival, and in 2024, she won Entertainer of the Year at the Glam Awards, which recognizes the best in NYC nightlife. As a performer and advocate, she has been featured on MSNBC and in publications such as the Washington Post, PAPER Magazine, and NowThis News. She was a University Settlement Performance Project Fellow in 2022 and was named a Next Generation Artist by La Mama Experimental Theater Company in 2019. In 2023, she was listed as one of Brooklyn’s 50 Most Fascinating People and was a featured speaker at Pride Live’s Stonewall Day. She was recently selected as a Resident Artist at La Mama ETC for the 2026 season. Julie has been a featured performer in cities worldwide, including Berlin, Prague, Bologna, and Sardinia. She is the founder of Stand Up NYC, which has raised over $125,000 for trans and LGBTQIA+ organizations across the country. More information on her work can be found at juliejnyc.com and on various social media platforms @juliej.nyc
Kailin Brown
Kailin Brown (they/them) is a performer and choreographer based in NYC. Recent credits include: Jagged Little Pill (White Plains Performing Arts Center), 42 Balloons (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), and the Broadway National Tour of Chicago as Velma Kelly. When not performing in a musical you can catch Kay dancing for drag icons Kimmi Moore and Nick Gaga at Balcon Salon, dancing and associating for Michael McCrary on numerous video projects, or prancing around the city doing other gay stuff. @kailinbrownn
Mei Ann Teo
Mei Ann Teo (they/them) is the Artistic Director, New Work at Pink Fang where they make theatre working at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice towards investigations of liveness and revelation. They direct nationally including the Public Theater, OSF, 2nd Stage, Goodman Theatre, the National Black Theatre, and internationally at Belgium's Festival de Liege, Beijing International Festival, and others. They don’t usually perform, but for Diana “Zaza” Oh they do. Some of their collaborations with Zaza include Dramaturg on My Lingerie Play at Rattlestick, Love Doctor & also sang/twerked/collected$$ with a bucket in Clairvoyance at American Repertory Theatre, and finally the Voice in A Rare Bird, BTB Festival 2024.
Morgan Bassichis
Morgan Bassichis (they/them) is a comedian and writer who has been called “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker and "a tall child, or, well, a big bird" by The Nation. Their off-Broadway show Can I Be Frank?, about the groundbreaking late queer performer Frank Maya, ran this summer at the Soho Playhouse, directed by Sam Pinkleton. Morgan’s performances have been presented by Abrons Arts Center, the Kitchen, Creative Time, the Whitney Museum, and the New Museum.They co-edited with Jay Saper and Rachel Valinsky Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy's Subway, 2023), and edited and wrote the introduction to Nightboat Books' 2019 reprint of The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, written by Larry Mitchell and illustrated by Ned Asta. Morgan’s book of essays, To Do ASAP, will be released by Haymarket Press in 2026.
N’yomi Allure Stewart
N’yomi Allure Stewart (she/her)
Associate Director: Cats: The Jellicle Ball (Upcoming Broadway 2026), Cats: The Jellicle Ball (Perelman Performing Arts Center Off-Broadway). Dramaturg/Cultural Consultant: Saturday Church (New York Theatre Workshop). Off-Broadway (Acting): Prince Faggot (Studio Seaview), Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons/Soho Rep), A Raisin in the Sun (The Public Theater), Richard III (Shakespeare in the Park). Residencies: GALLIM Moving Artist Resident; New York Theatre Workshop Artist in Residence; BTFA (Black Trans Femmes in the Arts) Artist in Residence. Mother of the House of Unbothered Cartier Instagram: @nyomistewart
Sara Ramirez
Tony Award© winner Sara Ramírez (they/them) made history playing the longest-running Latine LGBTQ+ character on TV, ‘Dr. Callie Torres’ on ABC’s hit Grey’s Anatomy. Other TV credits include: Law & Order: SUV, Madam Secretary, And Just Like That, and animated series Sofia the First. Sara graduated Juilliard’s Drama School and made their Broadway debut starring in Paul Simon’s The Capeman. Following that, they starred on Broadway in Fascinating Rhythm, A Class Act, and Off Broadway in The Vagina Monologues. For their performance as the original Lady of the Lake in the Broadway smash-hit Monty Python’s Spamalot, they earned both a Tony Award© and Outer Critics Award.
Storm Thomas
Ty Defoe
Ty Defoe, (giizhig) he/we citizen of the Oneida Nation and Anishinaabe Tribe, and Indigiqueer/Two-Spirit Nation. Ty is a Grammy Award winner, playwright/writer, interdisciplinary artist, and a sovereign story trickster, and has earned fellowships from Robert Rauschenberg, MacDowell, and Sundance, and Pop Culture Collaborative as a Trans Futurist! Awards for the Jonathan Larson, Helen Merrill, Joyce’s Creative Impact. Ty creates work with rural communities, broadway productions, and in the metaverse, fostering relations for indigenous and decolonial futures. A professor of practice at ASU and Writer-in-Residence at PACE. Considers himself a shape-shifter, bending in and out of artistic forms to vanguard against a westernized binary system and celebrating the celestial force of rainbows. Ty loves the color clear and mood rings. tydefoe.com | AllMyRelations.earth