https://www.btb-nyc.com/homepage daily 1.0 2026-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f417505d-f03d-435b-892f-c2561ebc89a8/LettermarkWordmark.png Home October 10 - 16, 2022 https://www.btb-nyc.com/finale-writers daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4e62577a-38f8-4df5-9424-58189b2dfb84/A.A.+Brenner+Headshot.jpeg OVERHEARD - Contributors - A.A BRENNER (they/them/he) A.A. Brenner (they / them / he) is a playwright, dramaturg, actor, and New Yorker. Their writing blends naturalistic dialogue with heightened realism to explore queer, trans, Jewish, and Disability themes, challenging both societal power structures and theatrical form. A.A.'s plays have been presented or commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, National Disability Theatre, Lincoln Center, Queens Theatre, CO/LAB Theatre Group, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Fellows Consortium), Three Muses Theatre Company, Young Playwrights Inc., The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Columbia University, and The Hangar Theatre Lab Company; their play for all audiences, EMILY DRIVER'S GREAT RACE THROUGH TIME AND SPACE (co-written by Gregg Mozgala), was featured on the 2020 Kilroys List. Additionally, A.A. was a Finalist for the 2020-22 Apothetae & Lark Playwriting Fellowship, the Platform Presents 2021 Playwright's Prize and the 2021 Columbia@Roundabout New Play Reading Series, and has been a writer-in-residence at New York Stage and Film's 2021 Summer Season and The Lark's Beyond the Binary initiative for trans and nonbinary writers. Currently, A.A. lives on Lenape land in Brooklyn, NY, and is a 2022 graduate of the MFA Playwriting Program at Columbia University School of the Arts. | Website: www.aabrenner.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3e780cc1-bb5d-43e3-9dc6-dec2302bdd6c/Azure+D.+Osborne-Lee+Headshot+%28pc_+Gaspar+Marquez%29.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - AZURE D. OSBORNE-LEE (he/they) Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) is a multi-award-winning Black queer & trans theatre maker from south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He holds an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice (2011) from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama as well as an MA in Women’s & Gender Studies (2008) and a BA in English & Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin (2005). Azure teaches at The New School and New York University. He is the founder of Roots and River Productions. Waterwell New Works Lab’s 2021 Commission, Kilroys List 2020 playwright, recipient of Parity Productions’ 2018 Annual Commission, Winner of Downtown Urban Arts Festival’s 2018 Best Play Award, and 2015 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest. azureosbornelee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c9322944-c75a-4737-9e62-14c7401147c0/Bianca+Leigh+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - BIANCA LEIGH Bianca Leigh. Miss Leigh’s acting roles include Waxy Bush in MTC’s THE NAP on Broadway (Understudy/performed), Mary Ellen in the groundbreaking film TRANSAMERICA, Time/Wind in Taylor Mac’s theatre epic THE LILY’S REVENGE, Franny Halcyon in the New York and San Francisco workshops of TALES OF THE CITY THE MUSICAL (performed in concert at the Music Box Theatre), Tatiana in Paul Lucas’ award- winning verbatim piece TRANS SCRIPTS at American Repertory Theatre, Beatrice in Christina Anderson’s MAN IN LOVE at Kansas City Rep, and Dr. Rachel Sandow on LAW & ORDER: SVU. Her play, MBJrT, was part of the Monday Night Playwright Series at Kansas City Rep in 2018. She is featured in Laverne Cox’s documentary DISCLOSURE, an exploration of Trans representation in motion pictures and on television, and can be heard on the Audible recording CHONBURI INTERNATIONAL HOTEL AND BUTTERFLY CLUB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0c8484bf-7062-4107-8195-15237cb36243/Else+Went+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - ELSE WENT (they/she) Else Went (they/she) is a Brooklyn based playwright and sound designer whose work often deals with the formation and continuance of outsider communities. Their work has been incubated in groups at The Public Theatre (EWG), Ars Nova (Play Group), WP (Trans Lab), Playwrights Realm (Fellow), and Bechdel Group (Resident Artist). Fellow at MacDowell, Stillwright, and Barn Arts. Commissions include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with MTC (An Oxford Man), Weston Playhouse (Mirror Game; short), and Parity Productions (Boxcar). Else's plays have been finalists and semifinalists for the O'Neill, Princess Grace, ASC's Shakespeare's New Contemporaries, and the Carlo Annoni Prize, among others. Her work has been previously developed with The Tank, International Shakespeare Center, Florida Studio Theatre, and The Brick. Else is the co-founder and playwright of The Renovationists, an artistic collective dedicated to queering traditional modes of theatre, with whom they developed and presented the plays Boxcar, Three Seconds, Old Names for Wildflowers, Initiative, and Courage! to the Field! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/bb134914-f6f5-4fa4-b120-384ceefa8ed7/Isaac+Go%CC%81mez+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - ISAAC GÓMEZ (they/them) Isaac Gómez (she/they/he) is an award-winning Chicago and Los Angeles based playwright and screenwriter originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They identify as na’wi – the third gender marker of the Rarámuri, a Mexican indigenous community in northern Chihuahua, of which she is a direct descendent. He is currently under commission with LCT3, Steppenwolf Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and IAMA Theatre Company. Their plays have been produced and/or developed by Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, the Alley Theatre, and many others. She is the recipient of the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, and an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee. His television credits include the Netflix Original Series ‘Narcos: Mexico’, the upcoming Apple TV+ Limited Series ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ starring Jennifer Garner, and the second season of the crime-drama ‘Joe Picket’ for Paramount TV+. They currently have a series in development with Stacey Sher and FX. On the feature side, she is currently under development with a full-length feature at Focus Features. They enjoy good bowls of menudo on Sundays (con bolillos not tortillas, porfis) and can slay a game of millennial loteria. He is represented by The Gersh Agency, ReDefine Entertainment, and Granderson Des Rochers, LLP. Isaac resides in Los Angeles, CA with his fiancé, cat (Tuxedo) and miniature schnauzer (Zuni). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/45393559-59e6-402b-8e57-243ab35df345/Kaela+Mei-Shing+Garvin+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - KAELA MEI-SHING GARVIN (they/she) Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (they/she) is a writer, performer, educator, and new work advocate. Plays include Call Out Culture (2022 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, 2019 Ars Nova’s ANTFest), Harpers Ferry 2019 (2022 Know Theatre of Cincinnati production, 2021 Kendeda Playwriting Award finalist), Tiger Beat (2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2021 Seven Devils Conference finalist), and The Well-Tempered Clavier (2020 BAPF finalist, 2019 Paul Stephen Lim Award.) Kaela has received six Kennedy Center awards and has developed work with the Alliance Theater, The Road’s Under Construction Lab, the Coop’s Clusterf*ck, Playground-NY, and Pipeline Theater Company’s Playlab. Commissions include work with Montana Repertory Theater and College of the Holy Cross. Garvin is the BAPF Season 45 Play Selection Advisor, the Tank’s 2022 Pridefest curator, and a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new interdisciplinary art. Kaela currently teaches playwriting at Cornish College of the Arts and is the Literary Manager for Luna Stage in New Jersey. www.kaelameishinggarvin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b905eddc-2c45-428d-8ac6-287e8b1aa84e/Lady+Dane+Figueroa+Edidi+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - LADY DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI (she/her) Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is a Black Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American Performance Artist, Author, Educator, a Helen Hayes Award winning Playwright (Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem), a 2021 Helen Merrill Award Winner, Advocate, Dramaturg, a 2x Helen Hayes Award Nominated choreographer (2016, 2018) and co-editor/co-founder of the Black Trans Prayer Book. She is the curator and associate producer of Long Wharf Theatre’s Black Trans Women At The Center: An Evening of Short Plays, as well as an artistic ensemble member of the theater. She wrote episode 1 of Untitled Mockumentary Project and acted on the series as well, and wrote episode 9 (Refuge) of Round House Theater’s web series Homebound. She was recently featured as Dr. Grace Grace in the webseries I Need Space. She also narrated The Netflix Docu-series Visions of Us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a9660b7d-5e7d-4499-8456-e52248efed8e/Liqing+Xu+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - LIQING XU (they/she) Liqing Xu (they/she) is a playwright and screenwriter. Their work has been developed/supported by Theater Mu, Second Stage, the María Irene Fornés Institute Writers Workshop, The Orchard Project, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference (as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow), among others. They are a proud inaugural member of the Mu Tang Clan. Liqing is a Semi-Finalist for the 2022-2023 Princess Grace Award. Currently, she is based in Minneapolis as a Playwrights' Center 2022-2023 Many Voices Fellow. BFA: NYU, Film and Television. MFA: Hunter College, Playwriting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3f3255e5-6f6c-44ba-86b3-c4aea8fd2740/Deen+Headshot.jpeg OVERHEARD - Contributors - MASHUQ MUSHTAQ DEEN (he/they) Mashuq Mushtaq Deen is a former resident playwright at New Dramatists, a CORE writer at the Playwrights Center, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Draw the Circle (productions: PlayMakers Rep, Mosaic Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre). His other full-length plays include The Empty Place (produced by NYU), Flood (world premiere, Kansas City Rep 2023), The Betterment Society (published by Methuen Books), and The Shaking Earth (covid-canceled world premiere, National Queer Theater 2021; First-Runner-Up for both the International Woodward Prize, and the India's International Sulthan Padamsee Prize). Deen’s work has been presented/developed/supported by a number of institutions including the Siena Art Institute, Sundance Theatre Institute & the Ucross Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, The Public Theater, NYTW, MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Keen Company, Target Margin Theatre, NYU, La Jolla Playhouse, New Harmony Project, Chesley/Bumbalo Foundation, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, SPACE at Ryder Farm, New York Foundation for the Arts, InterAct Theatre, Page73, Ma-Yi, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Georgetown University, BEAT Festival, PACE University, Hampshire College, Averett University, Dixon Place, Passage Theatre, Queens Theatre in the Park, Tofte Lake Center, and the Berkshire Fringe Festival. He is a member of the NYTW Usual Suspects, Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and co-founder of the Public Theater Alumni Writers Group. He earned his MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School/New School for Drama. He is represented by the Gurman Agency LLC and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b775176c-e7ad-4c45-9c27-a23545ae1c2e/Sam+Hamashima+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - SAM HAMASHIMA (they/them) Described as “serious whimsy” in the Washington Post, Hamashima (they/them) creates theater with an emphasis on spectacle, surprise, and design. Full-length plays include: American Spies (Washington, D.C., The Hub Theatre, Helen Hayes Recommended, Winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center Undergraduate Playwriting Award and the University of Michigan Hopwood Award in Drama, Dennis McIntyre Prize, and The Roy Cowden Fellowship), Supposed Home (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Seattle Public Theater), and Shoyu Tell (Lexington Children’s Theatre). Hamashima’s work has been presented and/or developed by the Kennedy Center, Stanford University, National Queer Theater, Lyric Stage Boston, and the Workshop Theater. They are the 2nd recipient of Seattle Public Theater’s $10,000 Emerald Prize. Currently under commission with San Francisco Playhouse. University of Michigan’s Musical Theatre Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/39bdb6fd-502b-4cbd-a345-118b9017e58b/Sharifa+Yasmin+Headshot+%28pc_+Mayker+Duran%29.jpeg OVERHEARD - Contributors - SHARIFA YASMIN (she/her) Sharifa Yasmin (she/her) is a trans Egyptian-American director, actress and playwright. She has completed fellowships with The Drama League, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geva Theatre, and was a Eugene O’Neill national directing fellow. Her plays have been produced with the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Uprising Theatre, Amphibian Stage, Trans Theatre Fest, Women’s Theatre Festival, taught at DePaul, Susquehanna, and Kansas Universities, and published in The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays. Yasmin was honored as the inaugural recipient of the SCDF Barbara Whitman Award in 2021. She is completing her MFA in Directing with Brown/Trinity Rep. www.sharifayasmin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/12f89099-5230-40d4-98f4-547f533d27e1/Sylvan+Oswald+Headshot.jpeg OVERHEARD - Contributors - SYLVAN OSWALD (he/him) Sylvan Oswald (he/him) is a writer who creates text-based projects exploring trans identity, history, and nonviolent dramaturgy. Sylvan started writing roles for gender nonconforming people in 2000 - starting with the idea of a pants role. As he and his work grew, he included roles for butch, trans, and nonbinary performers. His projects include Trainers: A Theatrical Essay (Gate Theatre, London and Oberon Books); High Winds (TBA Festival, Fusebox Festival, X Artists' Books), "Towards a Trans Theater," an essay forthcoming from Bloomsbury, "Cut Piece", a personal history of play publishing; Play A Journal of Plays (2003-2011); and Outtakes, a web series. Plays include A Kind of Weather (Diversionary Theater, San Diego), Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb), and Pony (About Face Theater, Chicago). A recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 2019-20, a Soho Rep Dorothy Strelsin Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and UCross, Sylvan now heads the playwriting program at UCLA. sylvanoswald.xyz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/bce0ae5c-a303-4d48-a4fe-621a0ce78cb9/Timothy+DuWhite+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Contributors - TIMOTHY DUWHITE (pronoun inclusive) Timothy DuWhite, also known as Ungrateful Black Artist (UGBA) is a queer poet, playwright, actor, and activist. UGBA is the founder/host of CEREMONIES, a Brooklyn based monthly Black-Queer artist showcase held in honor of Essex Hemphill. UGBA is a BAM Resident Artist, a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, and alumni of The Public Theater's #BARS Workshop. His essays and poetry can be found in The Rumpus, The Root, THEM, Afropunk, Black Youth Project, The Grio, and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c1bdd7e4-ec72-4732-b415-7294385b7f82/travis+l.+tate+Headshot.png OVERHEARD - Contributors - TRAVIS L. TATE (they/them) travis tate (they/them) is a queer, Black playwright, poet and performer living in Brooklyn. Their poetry has appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Underblong, Southern Humanities Review, Vassar Review, The Broiler and Cosmonaut Avenue, among other journals. Their debut poetry collection, MAIDEN, was published on Vegetarian Alcoholic Press in June 2020. The world premiere of Queen of The Night happened at Dorset Theatre Festival in August 2021 and had its second production at Victory Gardens Theatre in January 2022. They earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Michener Center for Writers. You can find more about them at travisltate.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/32348018-c627-460b-bc2b-0dfcb1ef9a36/Victor+I.+Cazares+Headshot.png OVERHEARD - Contributors - VICTOR I. CAZARES (they/them) Victor I. Cazares (they/them) is a non-binary Poz Queer Indigenous Mexican Artist (enby PQIMA for short) who has had stints at Yale, Brown and other less prestigious centers of rehabilitation. Like any border child, they were born twice: once in El Paso, Texas and another in San Lorenzo, Chihuahua. During the pandemic, Victor debuted virtually at Carnegie Hall as part of the Voices of Hope Festival in partnership with National Queer Theater and The LGBT Center. They also teach a tuition-free class for emerging immigrant playwrights as part of PEN America’s DREAMing Out Loud program. Plays include: american (tele)visions and Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall (NYTW); Ramses contra los monstruos, We Were Eight Years in Powder and «when we write with ashes» (NQT and Lincoln Center Restart Stages). Victor is currently the Tow Playwright-in-Residence at New York Theatre Workshop. https://www.btb-nyc.com/trans-world daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c8ac2c52-95b0-4c7b-acb4-70067e2795d4/ty.jpeg TRANS WORLD - Ty Defoe (he/we/ty) Author Ty Defoe, (he/we/ty, Giizhig) Indigiqueer citizen of Oneida + Ojibwe Nations. Interdisciplinary storyteller, writer/director + world-builder + badass for liberation. Grammy Award, 2021 Sundance Fellow, Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, Jonathan Larson Award, Cultural Capital Fellow w/ First People’s Fund, + Kennedy Center Next 50. www.allmyrelations.earth/present & www.tydefoe.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0dfb3736-0dc4-47a3-b479-c4e8333d39be/dominique.jpeg TRANS WORLD - Dominique Rider Director Dominique Rider is a Brooklyn-based director whose work seeks to answer the question: “What is a world unmade by slavery?” while attempting to analyze the layers of anti-blackness that maintain the world we live in. Deploying theatre and performance as tools of Afropessimism, Dominique has developed and staged work with Audible, The New Group, NYTW, Roundabout, The Atlantic, Princeton, Rattlestick, BRIC Arts, Two River, Portland Center Stage, and more. Past fellowships/residencies include TheaterWorks Hartford, NYSAF, BRIC Arts, Roundabout, and NAMT. Currently, Dominique is a resident director at The National Black Theatre and a producer with CLASSIX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/46aba773-75c3-4f66-9c8e-4f4836b6fa3f/josie.jpeg TRANS WORLD - Josephine Kearns (she/her) Dramaturg Josephine Kearns (she/her) is a dramaturg, theatre creative, and gender consultant specializing in queer, transgender, and intersex issues. She believes in a thoughtful, inclusive, anti-racist approach with an emphasis on queer and trans joy. Her theatre credits include work with the Perelman Center, Delaware Theatre Company, Fifth Ave. Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, and the ongoing Broadway development of numerous new works. Her background also includes work as a Gender Program Coordinator for Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and as a Research Specialist for TransFocus. She is also the gender consultant for Actors’ Equity Association and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f4f3441e-391f-47d5-bd87-ec834d6414df/Sami+Binder+Headshot.jpeg TRANS WORLD - Sami Binder (they/them) Sami Binder (they/them) is thrilled to be working on TRANS WORLD and with the Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival! Sami is a theatre artist who often wears many hats -- actor, stage manager, director, crew member, etc.! They love working on new works and devised works, especially with LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized communities, and getting to create representation where it is lacking. They'd like to thank all the cast, crew, creatives, and administrators who made this wonderful Festival happen. They'd also like to thank the audience and all other supporters. And their cat, Luigi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fb53f3f0-c51f-4425-98c3-b6d0eec03920/b+norwood+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - b norwood (they/them/b) Bianca “b” Norwood (they/b) is an actor out of Fresno, California. Former collaborations include work at Manhattan Theatre Club, Tectonic Theatre Project, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, and Clubbed Thumb. Bianca is currently working at New York Theatre Workshop playing Erica, in American (Tele)visions written by Victor I. Cazares. TV: “WeCrashed” “Let The Right One In”. Education: PCPA, The Juilliard School. B is grateful to all the Trans and Queer artists, present and past, that have made it possible for them to thrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/90bc6731-5ffb-402b-a6e3-51e8f3450e3e/Carolina+Do+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - Carolina do (she/her) Carolina Đỗ is an actor, playwright, producer and proud daughter of Vietnamese freedom fighters and refugees. She’s a community organizer and advocate for art that facilitates healing in marginalized communities. [BROADWAY] Linda Vista (u/s), Grand Horizons (u/s). [NY THEATER] PlayCo: Is It Supposed To Last? ; Adjusted Realists: The Refugees; Yangtze Rep: Stacey In The States, 410[Gone]; Three Sisters (Irina); New Collectives: Life, Brief and Glorious. Workshops: Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, The Hearth, LoadingDock, Japan Society. [REGIONAL] Everyman Theatre: Dinner and Cake (world premiere) [TV/FILM] Law & Order: SVU; Blue Bloods; FBI: Most Wanted; Sideways Smile (Newfest, Outfest, Austin Film Festival); Aviva (SXSW, Boaz Yakin); CRAM (Austin Film Festival). [PLAYWRIGHTING] 2022-2023 Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab Cohort, 2022 Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab Resident Artist; JACK 2021 Residency; buried ruins: 2022 Princess Grace Semi-Finalist, 2022 Bushwick Starr Finalist, 2022 BricLab Finalist; Upcoming workshop: 59E59 Theaters, Fall 2022. [CO-FOUNDER & PRODUCING ARTISTIC LEADER] of The Sống Collective | www.thesongcollectivenyc.org| www.carolinado.com | BFA Brooklyn College | Repped by UGA, Invictus Entertainment, and A3 | For Vas, Ba, Mẹ, và em Nọ | https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/12eea52c-dd96-4cc0-a3d1-8762aad8a5df/essence+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - essence Lotus (she/her) essence (she/her) is a Brooklyn born and raised artist with deep love and care for Black trans and queer folk. Each performance they do is filled with the intention of a ritual meant to venerate their honorable Black American, Panamanian, and diasporic ancestors and kin. Essence wishes for you to hold yourself in softness, and that you may find others who can hold you just as softly. Having graduated from Kingsborough Community College and Tisch School of the Arts, they remain a student of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f6ae70a9-da17-4a36-a935-b51ddab3a2b8/Futaba+Shioda+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - Futaba Shioda (he/him/his) Futaba Shioda (he/him) is an actor of Asian diaspora and trans experience. A Paul Robeson Award winner for his work bridging art and advocacy, he is invested in empowering artists and workers. Select acting credits include the Kennedy Center, Barrington Stage Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, WP Theater, SoHo Rep, North Shore Music Theatre, and the 20th anniversary tour of RENT. Television credits include Sideways Smile. “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.” – Mariame Kaba. www.futabashioda.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/583c5149-f423-4cca-814f-48113c685116/Logan+Rozos+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - Logan Rozos (he/him) Logan Rozos (he/him) is an actor, artist, and gay Black trans man. He made his acting debut in 2019 on the Peabody-nominated television drama DAVID MAKES MAN. He was an honoree in Teen Vogue’s 20 Under 20 Queer Artists and Activists To Watch and a recipient of the 2019 Parity Award for outstanding work by LGBTQ people of faith. He is currently directing a feature length documentary on trans masculinities called WHAT WILL I BECOME? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ca3df9d4-5e9b-40d0-a186-800e17c326b1/Maybe+Burke+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - Maybe Burke (they/she) Maybe Burke (they/she) is an award winning actor, writer, makeup artist, and educator focusing on the stories that haven't been told. TV: Ramy (Hulu), Awkwafina is Nora from Queens (Comedy Central), Tales of the City (Netflix). Off-Broadway: safeword. (American Theatre of Actors), Red Emma & the Mad Monk (Ars Nova, The Tank). Maybe's solo show, Love Letters to Nobody, won the 2017 Fresh Fruit Spirit Award for Fostering Pride, Survival, History, and Progress. @believeinmaybe maybeburke.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c82fe7f5-d53d-4d05-9018-24fc52c5af61/MJ+Rawls+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - MJ Rawls (she/her/hers) MJ Rawls (she/her) is excited to collaborate with Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. Chicago credits include: Black Ensemble Theatre (The Healing, It’s Just Like Comin’ to Church*) [Nominated for Ertha Kitt Award], Court Theatre (The Bacchae), Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Madagascar; A Midsummer Nights Dream), Mercury Theater (Pippin) Regional credits include: Portland Stage (Trans World), Creede Repertory Theatre (Peter and the Starcatcher; Little Shop of Horrors), Coachella Valley Repertory (Chess The Musical), She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association. She is represented by Big Mouth Talent. She is a trans rights activist and hopes that this project expands the theatre community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/95279d14-2be4-4ff1-aabf-56a283d5fa58/Samy+Nour+Younes+Figaredo+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - Samy Nour Younes Figaredo (he/him/they/them) Samy Figaredo (he/him, they/them) is a proud multihyphenate: Lebanese, Puerto Rican, transgender, actor, consultant, and community organizer. They recently narrated the audiobook for The 30 Names of Night; and have appeared in Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Well-Intentioned White People (Barrington Stage Company), and Into the Woods (Ford’s Theatre). As a print model, they’ve participated in campaigns for CitiBank, Gilead Sciences, and JUST Water. As an activist, Samy has co-organized rallies, benefit events, and panels. Their most visible contribution to trans advocacy is their 2018 TED Talk on Trans History. Since then, Samy has continued to co-organize events that promote LGBTQ+ outreach and support. As a speaker, Samy's work centers on trans-inclusive policies and media representation. Past partnerships include Ancestry.com, the Hetrick-Martin Institute, eBay, and Squarespace. They have also served as a script consultant on two feature-length films. For more information, visit www.samyfigaredo.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f6850592-9439-4df5-94bc-760196142fe2/Zainab+Barry+Headshot.jpg TRANS WORLD - Zainab Barry (she/they) Zainab Barry was born and raised in the DMV and received a BA in theatre from James Madison University. Recent credits include Patience (Second Stage); A Christmas Carol (American Shakespeare Center); Before the Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Intimate Apparel, Parade, and Equus (James Madison University). Instagram: @zainabou https://www.btb-nyc.com/twitch daily 0.75 2023-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/25cf88b4-76b9-43f4-bc7d-6eea153157d7/liliana.jpeg TWITCH - Liliana Padilla (they/them) Author Liliana Padilla's (they/them) work explores community, the body, power and death. How to Defend Yourself, written and co-directed by Liliana, will be produced at New York Theatre Workshop in Winter 2022. Liliana co-created Born 1000 Times, a visual book and time capsule of friendship, loss and change. Liliana teaches at Dartmouth College and the Sewanee Writers Conference. Liliana is a theatremaker, performer, teacher and creative doula. MFA Playwriting: UCSD, BFA Theatre: NYU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4f6ce341-4e67-41c6-ac08-4ad1ff4ca5b5/jack.jpeg TWITCH - Jack Ferver (they/them) Director Jack Ferver (they/them) is a New York based writer, choreographer, and performer. Ferver’s genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), interrogate and indict psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of trauma, power, gender and sexuality. Ferver’s works have been presented in New York City at the New Museum; The Kitchen; New York Live Arts; The French Institute Alliance Française, as part of Crossing the Line; Abrons Arts Center; Gibney Dance; Performance Space 122; the Museum of Arts and Design, as part of Performa 11; Danspace Project; and Dixon Place. Domestically and internationally, Ferver has been presented by the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (NY); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (OR); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (ME); the Institute of Contemporary Art (MA); Fusebox Festival (TX); Diverse Works / Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston (TX); Temperance Hall (Australia); and Théâtre de Vanves (France). Ferver’s work, which blurs the boundaries between fantastic theatrics and stark naturalism, character and self, humor and horror, has received critical acclaim in The New York Times; La Monde; Artforum; The New Yorker; Time Out NY; Modern Painters; The Financial Times; and The Village Voice. They are the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Ferver has acted in numerous theater, television, and film projects, as well as creating the chaotic TikTok account @thereallittellad. They have collaborated with their partner, the visual artist and filmmaker, Jeremy Jacob on performances and short films which draw from both artist’s research of cinema, queerness, memory, and AIDS. Ferver teaches at Bard College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4a08c4f6-4384-4582-a163-8dc567b070a0/desiree.jpeg TWITCH - Desiree S. Mitton (she/they) Dramaturg Desiree (Des) Mitton (she/they) is a collaborator who works with a wide array of artists on theater and performance based projects as well as visual art installations. Des is also an independent writer and curator who is currently working towards a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU). Forthcoming publications include a title essay for a book on the photographer Stanley Stellar who documented queer communities at the Christopher Street piers in the 1970s and 1980s (Kapp Kapp Gallery). Recent theater and TV credits include “Mine” at Dixon Place, "The Summit" at Guild Hall, and “Dinette” (Bric TV). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/92041827-e221-4968-8fb8-959f0d9f1d6e/Annika+Prager+Headshot.jpeg TWITCH - Annika Prager (they/them) Annika Prager (they/them) is an Oakland born NYC-based queer neurodivergent Director, Intimacy Director, Stage Manager, and Teaching Artist. Some of their recent credits include Twelfth Night (Hunter College); Pistachio & the Worms (PS Family NYC); Die Anywhere Else (Hunter College); FREAKS, or the First Werewolf (Abrons Arts Center); The Interrobangers (TransTheatreFest); Dance Nation (Hunter Theatre Company); and Fuck Off Julia (Dixon Place’s HOT Festival). Annika works to amplify and center the voices of queer/trans artists, female artists, and artists of color by facilitating work that is trauma-informed, healing-centered, abolitionist, and antiracist. annikaprager.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/5a4aa900-8c47-4864-998f-1a5e45da656a/Jojo+Brown+Headshot.jpg TWITCH - Jojo Brown (she/her/hers) Jojo Brown (she/her) is a stage, television, and film actor. Past theatre credits include the U.S. Premiere of 7 Minutes at Waterwell Theater, the Off-Broadway premiere of CHARM at MCC Theater, and her breakout role as Mindy on 'Single Drunk Female' (hulu). More credits include the short film 'Pink & Blue' as well as roles on NBC, Showtime, and Comedy Central. With roots in the documentary-theatre scene of Chicago, Jojo Brown has a passion for telling stories that shift paradigms and challenge oppressive systems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/6519c1b2-b0b8-485d-9587-7fd17fb8e159/Joslyn+DeFreece+Headshot.jpeg TWITCH - Joslyn defreece (she/her/they/them) Joslyn DeFreece (she/her/they/them) is a NYC-based writer, producer, actor, and activist. Joslyn starred in Carl(a) -- a feature film depicting one girl’s path of transition -- and in The Enclave at Rattlestick Theatre. She also starred in a landmark national commercial for Sonnet -- one of the first to ever feature a Trans protagonist. She has appeared on the Daily Show, Comedy Central, and CNN. Joslyn can be seen playing a German trans woman who escaped the Nazis on the show "Strange Angel" season 2, streaming on Paramount+. Upcoming project: Marque and Hector turn Trash into Treasure - A crazy queer comedy co created with actor/director Linus Ignatius. Check it out on IG or Tiktok: @marqueandhector Represented by Paul Hilepo of PhEntertainment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7421e7ac-1cd0-4d14-a832-275cd8735c82/Marilee+Talkington+Headshot.JPG TWITCH - Marilee Talkington (she/they) Marilee Talkington (she/they) Actor. Writer. Director. Activist. Marilee is MacDowell Fellow (Playwriting), California Center for Cultural Innovation Grantee (Directing), Winner of the A.C.T. Carol Channing Trouper Award for dedication and excellence (Acting), a recipient of the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award (Disability Justice), one of Park Armory's Artist/Activist 100 years / 100 women, and one of the first legally blind women to earn an M.F.A. in Acting, work professionally in theatre, and appear on television. Their professional acting work spans 25 years in theater, tv, and film and their original works have been seen across the U.S. and internationally. A few favorite roles: Master Sunflower in The Lily's Revenge, performed with Taylor Mac (Magic Theatre), Naomi in Imaginary Comforts by Daniel Handler/a.k.a. Lemony Snicket (Berkeley Rep), Janice in Scott Z. Burns upcoming Extrapolations (Apple TV+). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c02cf8f0-fe2e-482b-90b9-017781146626/Pauli+Pontrelli+Headshot.jpg TWITCH - Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir) Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir) Theater credits include The Visitor (The Public, Original Cast Recording), Dom Juan (Fisher Center/ Bard Summerscape), This Clement World (St. Ann’s Warehouse), House of Dance (Half Straddle, Zürich Theater Spektakel, Kyoto Experiment, MASS Live Arts), Look Upon Our Lowliness (The Movement), Tiny Beautiful Things (Long Wharf), The Aliens (Chester Theatre Company). TV/Film: “Instinct” (CBS), Fry Day (streaming on Criterion). Most recently, Pauli choreographed Julia Jarcho's Marie, It's Time for minor theater. MFA: NYU Grad Acting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/02c93c52-b4f5-4143-9e70-5a85444d29e3/Spencer+Weidie+Headshot.jpg TWITCH - Spencer Weidie (they/them) Spencer Weidie (they/them) is a visual and performing artist based in New York City. They graduated from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY with a BFA in Dance and a concentration in Dance Composition. They also studied at London Contemporary Dance School, Springboard Danse Montreal, and with the Merce Cunningham Trust. Spencer has performed works by Kyle Abraham, Kimberly Bartosik, Brian Brooks, Merce Cunningham, Sharon Eyal, Andrea Miller, Omar Roman de Jesus and many more. Spencer has previously held company positions with Brian Brooks/Moving Company, Bocatuya, Gallim Dance, MADBOOTS Dance, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. In 2022, Spencer was invited to join the Trisha Brown Dance Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b1d2fe35-52ec-4a6f-81c8-450474c9b87e/TL+Thompson+Headshot.jpg TWITCH - TL Thompson (they/them/T) TL Thompson (they/them/T) credits include: Broadway: Straight White Men (Person In Charge u/s) at Second Stage Theater. Theater: Is This A Room (Agent Taylor) at Vineyard Theatre, Waafrika 123 (Aweeno) at Criminal Queerness Festival, NERVOUS/SYSTEM (Pollster) at BAM Next Wave, AFTER (Company) at Public Theater Podcasts, Meet Cute Podcast. “Adventures in New America”, “Welcome to Nightvale”. Webseries: “THESE/THEMS” (TI), Dir. Jett Garrison. THE HUNTED (Nic), Dir. Crystal Arnette. Films: Flu$h (Wrex), Dir. Heather Acs. Friday Afternoon Dir. Paige Campbell. TL is also in the NY Neo Futurist, who performs frequently in The Infinite Wrench, an ongoing attempt to perform 30 plays in one hour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a46cdda0-9381-4c3c-a955-511cc5ad9d0e/Meghan+Piper+Johnson+Headshot.jpg TWITCH - Meghan Piper Johnson (mpj) Meghan Piper Johnson (MPJ, they/them) is queer interdisciplinary artist and arts educator based in nyc. Their soul soars most freely and excitedly within movement and dance, however they also studied acting/theatre at NYU (New Studio on Broadway / Experimental Theatre Wing). They also studied Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health (NYU CAS), which has hugely impacted their work as an artist. Most recently mpj has been exploring themself as a whore clown, studying pole dancing and aerial arts since 2020 and becoming immersed in the extraordinary nyc nightlife scene. mpj’s burlesque alter ego is Lavender Lightning (who loves to cover their body in glitter and paint). mpj feels passionately about sensual self-expression, protecting sluthood, unironic sincerity, arts education for young people, and just how deeply our childhoods shape us. https://www.btb-nyc.com/hide-and-hide daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/eeb56c4c-2089-490c-81be-c245bd0fe790/rpger.jpg HIDE AND HIDE - Roger Q. Mason (they/them) Author Roger Q. Mason (they/them) was recently touted by The Brooklyn Rail as "quickly becoming one of the most significant playwrights of the decade." Their playwriting has been seen on Broadway at Circle in the Square (Circle Reading Series); Off and Off-Off-Broadway at MCC Theatre with Carnegie Hall, La Mama ETC, New York Theatre Workshop, New Group, The Fire This Time Festival, Dixon Place, American Theatre of Actors, Flea Theatre, and Access Theater; and regionally at McCarter Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Victory Gardens, Chicago Dramatists, Steep Theatre, Serenbe Playhouse, Theatre Rhinoceros, Open Fist Theatre Company, EST/LA, Coeurage Theatre, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Son of Semele, and Skylight Theatre. Roger is an honoree of the Kilroys List; the Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award; the Fire This Time Festival Alumni Spotlight; and the Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore Producers Award. Mason’s films have been recognized by the British Film Institute Flare Festival, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, SCAD Film Festival, Oscar Micheaux Film Festival, AT&T Film Award, Atlanta International Film Festival, Webby Awards, and Telly Awards. They've screened at the British Film Institute Flare Festival, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, Inside Out Festival (Toronto), SCAD Film Festival, Hollyshorts, Outfest and Outfest Fusion, Bentonville Film Festival, Outshine Film Festival, and the Pan African Film Festival. Mason holds degrees from Princeton University, Middlebury College, and Northwestern University. They are a member of Page 73's Interstate 73 Writers Group and Primary Stages Writing Cohort, an alumnus of The Fire This Time Festival, the co-host of Sister Roger's Gayborhood podcast, and the lead mentor of the Shay Foundation Fellowship and the New Visions Fellowship. Instagram: @rogerq.mason https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a6e60e48-1859-47e6-a038-7c23938595e7/e.jpeg HIDE AND HIDE - é boylan (they/them) Director é boylan (they/them) is a NYC based director, creator, and composer developing new work towards trans liberation. Past selected honors include: 2019 Trans Lab Fellow, 2019-20 MTC Directing Fellow, 2020 NAMT Musical Challenge Award, 2021 JMF Songwriter, 2021 Prospect MT Lab Commission, 2022 MTFxR Garage Artist. Currently, é serves as a member of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Directors Group and Musical Theatre Factory's Makers Cohort II, as well as a Resident Playwright at Lincoln Center Theater. www.eboylan.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b4c5b040-b37c-4975-80f7-481072dddd11/gaven.jpeg HIDE AND HIDE - Gaven Trinidad (they/he/siya) Dramaturg Gaven Trinidad (they/he/siya) is a Filipinx American director-dramaturg-playwright. Their artistic work examines the intersections of social justice, race, immigration, queerness, mental health, and community. They have worked as an artist and/or as an arts administrator at 2nd Stage, The Juilliard Drama Division, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, IAMA Theatre, and National Queer Theater. Their first play LEARNING HOW TO READ BY MOONLIGHT was recognized as 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist. TCG 2021 Rising Leaders of Color; Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab Cohort Member 22-23; New York Theatre Workshop’s Community Engagement Associate and Leviathan Lab’s dramaturg-in-residence. They live with Bipolar Disorder 1, and they advocate for more empathetic representations and practices in regard to mental health and care on and off-stage. www.gaventrinidadtheatre.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/bc49d5e8-682b-43bc-88c7-9a126d4e3d75/Mars+Neri+Headshot.jpg HIDE AND HIDE - Mars Neri (they/them) Mars Neri (they/them) is an artist and stage manager dedicated to supporting those who want to tell their personal stories and creating community through social justice oriented art. Most of their work is with the Fordham Theatre program, but they’ve also done work with Signature Theatre DC, the Song Collective, Leviathan Lab, and worked on the Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Abridged fundraiser for Stop AAPI Hate. They’re devoted to doing work that brings unheard voices and untold stories to light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/69c55e80-6b4c-48d7-8233-e98abad9cd05/Ayla+Sullivan+Headshot.jpeg HIDE AND HIDE - Ayla Sullivan (they/he) ayla xuân chi sullivan (they/he) is a Black, Vietnamese, and Filipinx, non-binary, performance artist from the lands of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Nuche colonially known as Denver, CO. Harlem based, Sullivan is the inaugural New Visions Fellow of National Queer Theatre and the Dramatists Guild. Their work has been showcased at MCC Theatre, The Other Side of Silence, throughout Denver, and briefly in Dakar, Senegal. They have been published in American Theatre, The Dramatist, Playbill, Westword, and 303Magazine. They are currently developing two television series with SMAC Entertainment. Stage Credits: Jubilee for a New Vision. Screen Credits: Girls5Eva BFA: University of Colorado Boulder. MFA: Columbia University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3ce9e65b-9539-4b41-bc58-33a6c0ec6feb/Han+Van+Sciver+Headshot.jpg HIDE AND HIDE - Han Van Sciver (they/them) Han Van Sciver is a queer, trans, non-binary, multidisciplinary artist. Acting credits include the world premiere of “At The Wedding” at Lincoln Center, the title role in Sarah Ruhl’s “Orlando” at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and MJ Kaufman's "Galatea" in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Their solo show, “Bicycle Face,” has toured off-Broadway, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. Their full-length play, “Dragon,” was recently developed with New York Theatre Workshop. They have developed percussion scores with é boylan/Ars Nova, Storm Thomas/Baltimore Center Stage, and Hannah Corneau/Joe's Pub. MFA: Brown/Trinity Rep. www.hanvansciver.com / @rhymes.with.man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e3878d5f-a27b-4235-909b-a68724f8d544/Eliana+Coe+Headshot.jpg HIDE AND HIDE - Eliana Coe (they/she) Eliana Coe (they/she) is a storyteller, life-long student, and a multi-hyphenate theatrical practitioner who has worked in the theatre scene located on stolen Coast Salish land,--specifically the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Snoqualmie, Nisqually, Tulalip, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot people (the greater Seattle area)--both professionally and in youth productions since 2013 (The 5th Avenue Theatre (and Rising Star Project), Village Theatre, Village Theatre Kidstage, Showtunes Theatre Company, and Studio East). They are currently working towards their BFA in Drama at NYU Tisch studying with the Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Eli would like to thank the incredible queer artists and trailblazers involved in Breaking the Binary at this festival and beyond. For Syd and Phyrex. https://www.btb-nyc.com/work-hard daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e0784416-0911-4abb-93e3-7885d4e7ea0a/ruth.jpeg WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY - ruth tang (they/them) Author ruth tang (they/them) writes plays & poetry and makes weird internet experiments out of Brooklyn, NY. Their play FUTURE WIFE was selected for the 2022 Theatertreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin. They are a member of the New Georges Jam, under commission from Long Wharf Theatre + NAATCO, and a recipient of the Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant. In the recent past, they've been part of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers' Group & NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship. Their past work includes FUTURE WIFE: Party in A Google Sheet (New Georges; Corkscrew Festival 4.0), Bad Chinese (Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival), and Building A Character (Wild Rice Singapore). MFA: The New School of Drama. ruthtang.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1558406f-4306-494d-990f-8b535552febb/kedian.jpeg WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY - Kedian Keohan (they/he) Director Kedian (they/he) is a trans director, creator, and plaything of live performance. They have collaborated with artists ruth tang, Jordan Fein, Erin Markey, Ann Marie Dorr & Paul Ketchum, minor theater, Geoff Sobelle, Andrew Schneider, Dance Heginbotham, and Alice Gosti. Upcoming: Panic Encyclopedia, developed in residency at JACK, will premiere at The Brick. Kedian will perform this September in Marie It’s Time at HERE Arts Center. Recent directing work: BLUSH (Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab), A Bone to Pick (Brunch Theatre), Venus in Gemini (Exponential Festival), *Chefs Kiss* (FEAST/Your Uncle Richard), and Fantasy (No Theme Festival). Recent assisting work: minor theater’s Pathetic (Abrons Art Center), Singlet (Bushwick Starr), and Rags Parkland Sings Songs of the Future (Ars Nova). Kedian is a New Georges affiliated artist. @justkedian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/89140239-d9f7-4474-85ed-4a91b81daa7f/lewis.jpeg WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY - Lewis Fender (he/him) Dramaturg Lewis Fender (he/him) is a trans dramaturg and director based in New York City. Since graduating from NYU Gallatin with a concentration in the dramaturgy of adaptation, he has more recently done a variety of freelance stage management and dramaturgy. Currently he works as the Executive Assistant at New York Theatre Workshop and as an Associate Dramaturg with Beehive Dramaturgy. Interested in a wide variety of theatre, he has dramaturged Shakespeare as well as new work, with a specialization in experimental adaptation and devised work. Lewis has spent time both studying and working with German-language theater, specifically the works of Brecht, Müller, and Jelinek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8b98d789-7dc0-49dc-b76e-a41d7d8b6ba9/Elyse+Durand+Headshot.jpg WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY - Elyse Durand (they/she) Elyse Durand (they/she) is a New York City-based theater-maker and stage manager actively compiling instruments for her one-person band. Credits include: Stage Management for The Mountaintop, Into The Breeches, Desperate Measures, Orpheus in the Underworld + A Streetcar Named Desire, Assistant Director for The Story Box, a new storytelling work at HERE Arts Center, sound designer for The Wolves, Gay and Afraid, + Approachable Face and assistant director/dramaturg for Nilo Cruz’s Lorca in a Green Dress. A graduate of California State University, Northridge, they are the recipient of university and state-wide research prizes for her preliminary work on an original concept album, based on the legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. She is the host/producer of a music and comedy variety show, entitled Fret Not, performed at The Tank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0a807aa3-36c6-45a4-a9f9-d049db4ec7c1/Morgan+Sullivan+Headshot.jpg WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY - Morgan Sullivan (he/they) Morgan Sullivan (he/they) is a NYC-based actor and filmmaker. As a transgender advocate, many of the projects he works on address topics affecting the LGBTQI+ community. Morgan can be seen in TV projects including Dickinson, Broad City, and HBO's I Know This Much Is True, as well as starring in Matthew Puccini’s Sundance-selected film, Dirty for which he won a Special Recognition in Acting award from SXSW; Dirty can be watched on The Criterion Channel. Theatre credits include: Transformation with Glenn Close and Ted Nash at Lincoln Center, Galatea at WP Theatre, Grand Rounds at LaMaMa, and Queer Trash Theatre Cycle at Dixon Place. Morgan's filmmaking projects have screened internationally and at U.S. festivals including Frameline, Outfest, and Newfest. More information: www.morgan-sullivan.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4ca05b16-c368-4b2a-b9d0-0868d14754d4/Sagan+Chen+Headshot.jpeg WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY - Sagan Chen (they/he) Sagan (they/he) is a queer genderfluid chinese-american artist. They center their work on uplifting underrepresented new narratives onstage, onscreen, and on the page, and enjoy reading scripts for various reading committees. Some of his favorite credits: Onstage: Happy Life (The Hearth at Walkerspace), Joy of Painting (Clubbed Thumb), Two Mile Hollow (Yale), Six Years Old, Stone, and delicacy of a puffin heart (Corkscrew Theater Festival), Exposed Bone (The PIT Loft). Onscreen: Grand Crew (NBC), Survival of the Thickest (Netflix/A24), High Maintenance (HBO), Girl Talk (dir. Erica Rose), Here We Wait, and Sideways Smile. He has directed at Dartmouth College, Samuel French OOB Festival, Frigid Festival, Corkscrew Festival, and Women in Theatre Festival. Audiobooks: Ana On the Edge and All The Things We Don’t Talk About. IG: @sagan.chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/5a6c26c7-8b28-4933-987d-49f80da62b32/Z+Infante+Headshot.jpg WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY - Z Infante (they/them) Z Infante (they/them) is grateful for the opportunity to join the inaugural BTB Festival. They were last seen on stage at Hartford Stage in John Leguizamo’s Pre-Broadway production of Kiss My Aztec. Off-Broadway: Alice By Heart (MCC) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA) Big River (NYCC) Film: School of Rock. Upcoming: Luna and The Star Bodies at The Atrium at Lincoln Center 10/27 www.zinfante.com @zrinfante https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/88c8121d-3e40-472c-9fdf-370d3684a6db/Marisa+Budnick+Headshot.jpg WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY - Marisa budnick (she/they) Marisa Budnick (she/they) is thrilled to play a part in this special festival. They are currently in the premiere of XIMER Off-Broadway. Select past performance credits include The Tattooed Lady (Nora Hildebrandt, Goodspeed), Stranger Things Experience (Swing, Netflix/Fever/Mycotoo), The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and her Dog (Mom, Playhouse On Park), Nunsense II (Robert Anne, Millbrook Playhouse). Big big thank you to George for this wonderful opportunity and her family and friends for their constant support. Marisa is simply elated to work on a festival of queer works for and by queer people. This is the work that will bring necessary and exciting change to the industry. https://www.btb-nyc.com/nana daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c56918ce-8657-4cf4-8941-f590a2ed3700/aziza.jpeg NANA - Aziza Barnes Author Aziza Barnes is blk & alive. Z's play BLKS was the winner of the 2020 Antonyo Award for Best Play, and nominated for Best Play by the Lucille Lortel Awards. Z's play NANA, commissioned by Williamstown, was workshopped at Sundance Theater Labs in 2020. Z's latest commission is with CTG's Not A Moment, But A Movement cohort. Z is thrilled to be a part of Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fee975bd-1976-432e-a541-0c24b289feb4/rad.jpeg NANA - Rad Pereiera (they/them) Director Rad Pereira (they/them) is an (im)migrant cultural worker building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures currently based between Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) and Haudenosaunee territory (Hudson Valley). As a community artist they created The (Im)Migrant Hustle and produced Bang Bang Gun Amok I + II at Abrons Art Center, Media Tools for Liberation with JackNY, and facilitated Decolonization Rave and Cosmic Commons with You Are Here. They are a 2017 NYC Public Artist in Residence with Department of Cultural Affairs and Children’s Services working with LGBQTIA foster youth; As an actor and director, Rad has contributed to stories at 20th Century Studios, AMC, HBO, CBS, NBC, MTV, National Black Theatre, MITU350, The Public Theater, La Mama etc., Shakespeare Theatre in DC, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Target Margin, Poetic Theater, Ars Nova, New Ohio, Sesame Street, Theatre 167 and various online media platforms. Rad has spoken and consulted at the Queens Museum, Rio de Janeiro Museum, Instituto Republica, PSU Art + Social Practice, SITI Company Thought Center, United Nations, A Blade of Grass, Superblue, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, The 8th Floor, Working Woman of Color Conference, Dance/NYC Symposium, and Culture/Shift. Their work in performance, education and social practice has been experienced on stages, screens, stoops and sidewalks all over Turtle Island through the support of many communities, institutions, and groups. Their book Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, By Those Who Lived It is available through New Village Press. They are Director of Engagement & Impact at NY Stage & Film. They are building a Native led food sovereignty and peace building land project called Iron Path Farms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4c25a78a-ed6d-4b2b-88bd-4d9c9e3dd566/al+parker.jpeg NANA - Al Parker (they/them) Dramaturg Al Parker (they/them) is a dramaturg, producer, and audience services manager based in New York City. Their work grows from a place of service and is invested in expanding the boundaries of intersectional storytelling, blurring the lines between what is and what could be. They are a proud member of National Queer Theater’s Artistic Collective and Theater in Asylum’s Curation Team. As an arts administrator, Al is the Associate Artistic Director of The Parsnip Ship and an alum of the Ars Nova Emerging Leaders Group. Recently, they have collaborated with Playwrights Horizons, MCC, Colt Coeur, and the Civilians. Originally from South Dakota, they completed their studies in Dramatic Literature and Creative Writing at New York University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/05c5b3ea-a44e-4abd-9ffe-a50e39ad7068/Joseph+Distl+Headshot.jpg NANA - Joseph distl (he/they) Joseph Distl (he/they) is a queer Puerto Rican theater artist from Queens. They advocate for diversity and representation for marginalized communities. Using their background in research and theatre they push to create intersectional conversations on gender, sexuality, and race. Joseph would like to open a mental health facility for queer youth to receive affordable alternative methods of therapy. Their goal is to produce unconventional theater for unconventional audiences. Recent credits include playing Grizz in ¡Oso Fabuloso & The BearBacks! (INTAR) and stage managing THIS AND THAT (The Chocolate Factory Theater & Bushwick Starr). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1bc7cf45-a6d8-4104-86f5-7f1eb70b25b6/Alex+Lugo+Headshot.jpg NANA - Alex Lugo (they/she) Alex Lugo (they/she) is deeply honored to be a part of BTB! Currently: Hadestown National Tour (Swing, Eurydice u/s, Fate u/s, Assistant Dance Captain). For those they love. www.alexmarialugo.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3fdd10fc-5073-4661-b2a8-417df0d4a28e/B+Alexander+Headshot.jpg NANA - B Alexander (they/them) B Alexander (they/them) is an actor, model, comedian, known for Dreamer in the Falls, The David Project, and more. Originally from Washington, DC, B brings some of the East Coast swag to the West. After receiving their BA in Communications & Media from Denison University, they spent years traveling the United States, studying acting in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. They started their Hollywood career acting in commercials, plays, and musicals. When B was 5 years old, B watched their aunt do runway shows and wanted to do the same thing. B's goal of walking a runway came to fruition in 2010, when they first walked in the Butch Voices LA fashion show. B went on to model in New York, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area for several brands and pursued additional runway opportunities through the What is Butch Campaign, which gave B the opportunity to participate in the first ever Queer Fashion Week. In 2016, B also participated in Rainbow Fashion Week, walking for Jag & Co at the Haus of Jag show. Today, B performs as a comedian, an actor, a voiceover artist, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ca7c7708-babb-4635-8db4-ed3fc050710d/Becca+Blackwell+Headshot.jpg NANA - Becca Blackwell (they/them) Becca Blackwell (they/them). Trans, non-binary. They are recurring on Sort Of (HBO MAX), have a nice supporting in Bros (upcoming Billy Eichner/Judd Apatow), and were shortlisted for a Tony nom this year for Is This A Room. A very beloved actor whose credits also include Ramy, High Maintenance, and Shameless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/451e2453-070a-4499-8dca-0c4955adaf6b/Ianne+Fields+Stewart+Headshot.jpg NANA - Ianne Fields Stewart (she/they) Ianne Fields Stewart (she/they) is a black, queer, lesbian, and nonbinary transfeminine New York-based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and activism. Ianne was personally requested by Sara Ramirez (Grey's Anatomy) to play their love interest in the 3-Time Emmy-Nominated web series The Feels. Film/TV Credits include: Dash & Lily (Roberta), The Bold Type (Chloe Blair), and Pose (Pretty Bartender). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0e421b7d-ed37-4fb3-9640-525362ff99b1/J+Riley+Jr+Headshot.jpg NANA - J Riley jr. (she/they) J Riley Jr (she/they) is thrilled to be apart of the Breaking the Binary Festival. Regional Theatre: SUFFS at The Public Theatre, Feel The Spirit at Shotgun Players, Trevor: The Musical at Writers Theatre, The Scottsboro Boys at Porchlight Music Theatre, Junie B Jones at Emerald City Theatre. Film: Work in Progress. Additional Credits: J received a BFA in Musical Theatre with a Minor in Women & Gender Studies from Columbia College Chicago. IG: @jayaerileyjr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/90ee7f6f-f810-4dbb-ae53-a3ba4cb32594/Lily+Dominique+Headshot.jpeg NANA - Lily Dominique (she/they) Lily Dominique (she/they) is thrilled to debut in Aziza’s Barnes’ NANA, playing the character of Gina. A recent graduate of Pace Performing Arts’ Acting program, Lily works behind the scenes as an independent painter and on-stage as a vocalist for both familial and gala events. Homegrown in Chicago, her artistic fervor was borne through spoken slam poetry and theatre work within Young Chicago Authors and Collaboraction. She has recently appeared as Harper in Venus and What Else Is Nocturnal through The Blank Theatre Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a943ff00-f762-4f70-a873-4cb8187d86e2/Mele+Sabu%CC%81+Headshot.jpg NANA - Mele Sabú (they/them) Mele Sabú (they/them) is a Puerto Rican non-binary actor based in New York City. They hold a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where they studied at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and Stonestreet Film/TV Studio. They are a former student of Anthony Abeson. Their performances include Talk To Me on IGTV, Mambo Sauce (Roundabout Theater, The New Group), Nana (Sundance Theater Lab, Williamstown Theater), The Beautiful Land That I Seek (New York Theater Workshop), and Dream Hou$e (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest). They are interested in the relationship between art and activism through work that uplifts the Black, disabled, LGBTQ communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/04745101-40df-4e7c-9870-9def88d810cb/Mia+Sterbini+Headshot.jpg NANA - Mia Sterbini (they/she) Mia Sterbini (they/she) is a cultural worker, actor, and organizer currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) working at the intersection of black & queer radical imagination, through the lens of embodied liberatory practice, transformative justice & storytelling. Some of their previous creative direction & collaboration include work with You Are Here, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, SistersPGH, 1Hood Media, Black Young & Educated, PAAR, and a number of other networks. They serve as the co-founder of the Radical Youth Collective. They are a recent BFA Acting Graduate of Point Park University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ec56e465-a1b3-4923-aa7b-dc94785e4ef6/Zainab+Barry+Headshot.jpg NANA - Zainab Barry (she/they) Zainab Barry (she/they) was born and raised in the DMV and received a BA in theatre from James Madison University. Recent credits include Patience (Second Stage); A Christmas Carol (American Shakespeare Center); Before the Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Intimate Apparel, Parade, and Equus (James Madison University). Instagram: @zainabou https://www.btb-nyc.com/thelma-and-louise daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/868c9d5a-2c91-4116-8c7c-8bda6780a053/mara.jpeg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - Mara Vélez Meléndez (she/her) Author Mara Vélez Meléndez (she/her) is a playwright born and raised in Puerto Rico. Her Off-Broadway debut took place in 2022 with Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, produced by Soho Rep and The Sol Project. She also adapted the upcoming Spotify/Gimlet podcast, Case 63. Mara was a 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow and is currently a member of Ars Nova’s PlayGroup. Other plays include: ¡GÁRGOLA!, This Is Not The Oxcart, and Thelma and Louise and The Time Machine. Instagram: @flordemara_ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/711fa064-88fc-4993-90ae-ea38f13e1d37/sivan.jpeg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - Sivan Battat (she/they) Director Sivan Battat (she/they) is a theatre director & community organizer. Sivan has developed work with companies including Roundabout, NYTW, the Atlantic, Ars Nova, National Queer Theatre, New Georges, The Goodman, Victory Gardens, The Park Avenue Armory, New York Stage & Film, Cape Cod Theatre Project, MCC and more. Sivan is the Associate Artistic Director of Noor Theatre, a company located in NYC in residence at New York Theatre Workshop. Noor is an Obie-winning company dedicated to supporting, developing and producing the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern descent. In the 2021/22 season, Sivan was the Directing Fellow at Roundabout Theatre Company, the Drama League Musical Directing Fellow and a member of TCG’s Rising Leaders of Color Cohort. As an organizer, Sivan works with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and has curated several iterations of Salon Al-Mahjar صالون المهجر, a performance salon for queer & trans MENASA artists. Upcoming: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Studio Theatre, DC), Layalina (Goodman Theatre, World Premiere, Chicago). sivanbattat.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7eff6faf-c67c-42fc-864e-608472ff2729/aydan.jpeg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - aydan shahdadpuri (they/he) Dramaturg Aydan Shahdadpuri (they/he) is a dramaturg of new and classical work, and a PhD student at the University of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f2b7a666-1edb-4c13-9b87-ff63b199912a/Nat+Kelley+DiMario+Headshot.jpg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - Nat Kelley DiMario (they/them) Nat Kelley DiMario is a Brooklyn-based queer & trans multidisciplinary theatre artist, stage manager, and storyteller. With a focus in unconventional theatre methodology, and devised and transformative work, collaboration is at the core of their creative process. Recent projects include the Broadway revival of Into the Woods, Dance Nation (Fordham University), Matilda (The Foote School), Troilus and Cressida (The Juilliard School), Juilliard’s Spring Dances program, and National Queer Theatre’s Jubilee for a New Vision at MCC. Nat holds a BA in Theatre Design and Production from Fordham University and is an alum of the Juilliard Professional Apprentice Program. natkelleydimario.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/6252bcfb-dbe7-44c9-9a50-077750d9afe3/Pauli+Pontrelli+Headshot.jpg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir) Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir) Theater credits include The Visitor (The Public, Original Cast Recording), Dom Juan (Fisher Center/ Bard Summerscape), This Clement World (St. Ann’s Warehouse), House of Dance (Half Straddle, Zürich Theater Spektakel, Kyoto Experiment, MASS Live Arts), Look Upon Our Lowliness (The Movement), Tiny Beautiful Things (Long Wharf), The Aliens (Chester Theatre Company). TV/Film: “Instinct” (CBS), Fry Day (streaming on Criterion). Most recently, Pauli choreographed Julia Jarcho's Marie, It's Time for minor theater. MFA: NYU Grad Acting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e7f43f12-c458-4583-9aaa-6a7ce3a533e0/Alex+Might+Headshot.jpg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - Alex Might (her) Alex Might (her) is an actor and fight/intimacy director from central Ohio. Recent credits: POTUS on Broadway (Assistant Fight & Intimacy Director); This Hair I Tear is Mine at Columbia University (Lily/Constance); The Wolves at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Understudy/Associate Movement Director); Are You There? at the Humana Festival (Daisy Duke); No Mercy at Moxie Arts (Fight & Intimacy Director); Elegies… at King's Head Theatre, London (Roscoe); Transformation at The National Arts Club (Christine). www.alexmight.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ce3d6554-09de-48e9-a59c-d7a894c9e2ac/Che%27Li+Headshot.jpg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - Che’Li (they/them) Che'Li is the life-performance embodiment projected by alyxandra ciale charfauros (they/them), ritualizing consciousness and shaping change at the intersections of beauty, absurdity, and sensuality. They are a Queer, Disabled CHamPinoy healing artist with recent credits in collaboration with Soho Playhouse, New York Theatre Festival, GrassRoots Art Collective, New York Shakespeare Exchange. Also, look out for them in Jess X Snow's upcoming short film, Roots That Reach Toward the Sky. Che'Li holds a BFA degree in Theatre Performance from the University of Michigan ('21) and is currently training to be an Intimacy Director and Alexander Technique Teacher in the hopes of building a healing center with TCM practitioner and life partner, Michael Yuchen Tong. They love anime, aswang, and Ali Wong! (cialikethey.com; @cialikethey; @madang.teatro). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a56f94cc-169d-4ce4-8a03-5623b169aa75/Nora+Schell+Headshot.jpeg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - Nora Schell (they/them) Nora Schell graduated from The University of Michigan with a BFA in Musical Theatre and a minor in Gender, Race and Nation. They received Drama Desk, Drama League and Clive Barnes Award nominations for their performance and Off-Broadway debut in SPAMILTON. Nora made their Broadway debut in JAGGED LITTLE PILL. With their educational background, Nora continues to cultivate a career focused on the intersection of performing and social justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/45496cc8-f418-4716-bfef-efc24d740880/Te%CC%A3mi%CC%81dayo%CC%A3+Amay+Headshot.jpg THELMA AND LOUISE AND THE TIME MACHINE - TEmídayo Amay (they/them/friend) Tẹmídayọ Amay (they/them/friend) OFF-BROADWAY: MCC Theater: On Love; Classical Theatre of Harlem: Foriwa. NEW YORK: La MaMa ETC: Coffehouse Chronicles 124; Joe's Pub: Queering the Canon: Sondheim (Ring of Keys). Washington, DC: Signature Theatre: The Color Purple (Squeak); Round House Theatre: School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Supporting Performer); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Describe the Night; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Will on the Hill, The Ruby Sunrise; Longacre Lea: The Interstellar Ghost Hour (Helen Hayes Award nomination, Outstanding Supporting Performer). DIRECTING: Arts on the Horizon: Once Upon a Zoom; the Athena Project. OTHER: Founder: Black Artist Coalition; Executive Producer: PILOT. @temidayoma. https://www.btb-nyc.com/overheard daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/07a83483-e33b-4c37-b071-10e7cb7a9572/L+Morgan+Lee+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Performers - L Morgan Lee (she/her) L Morgan Lee is an Obie Award-winning storyteller who made history as the first openly transgender actor to receive a Tony Award® nomination for her breakout performance in A Strange Loop. She also received Drama League Distinguished Performance and Antonyo Award nominations. Other notable work includes playing the titular role in a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl being developed in London. Recordings: Joe Iconis' album (Ghostlight Records); The Rainbow Lullaby Album (Broadway Records); Sugar Maple Series (Osiris Media). Dedicated to championing stories centering women and underrepresented voices on both stage and screen, L Morgan has been developing a slew of new work including a piece formally titled, The Women (2021). She is a Mark O'Donnell Prize recipient. For more: lmorganlee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d40e6dfe-8af0-4867-a3a3-216f9965c792/me.jpeg OVERHEARD - Performers - George Strus (they/he) Dramaturg George Strus (they/he) is a genderqueer Latinx theatremaker living on the unceded ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape Nation in New York. They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival: a developmental hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ theatermakers. They previously held positions at Second Stage Theater, A3 Artists Agency, Manhattan Theatre Club, Pride Plays at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Playbill, Stacey Mindich Productions, Alchemation, Telsey + Company Casting, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. @GeorgeStrus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f1e784a0-1a61-47d1-8cb5-5a1560d26974/Mika+Kauffman+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Performers - Mika Kauffman (they/them/zi/zir) Mika Kauffman (they/them, ze/zir) is a multi-hyphenate queer artist, primarily a director and choreographer, musical writer, dramaturg and producer. Hailing from Baltimore, ze received their BFA from Towson University and MFA in musical writing from Tisch. Mike creates collaborative trauma-informed spaces with a focus on community building to cultivate new work Off-Broadway and beyond. Ze is a member of SDC and the Dramatist Guild, and ze co-founded the Trans Entertainment Guild, an organization bettering the working conditions and lives of trans and gender expansive people in entertainment (transentertainmentguild.org). Check out their work at mikakauffman.com, IG: @mikakauffman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b046580e-0b19-4b5d-a47c-b7c0f5397677/Basit+Headshot.jpeg OVERHEARD - Performers - Basit (they/them) Basit (they/them) is a non-binary Black, Nigerian-American performance artist, singer/songwriter and actor. They are also a co-founder of Legacy, a production company focused on providing resources to artists systematically excluded from—and exploited by—media and the arts. Their creative practices are rooted in cultivating radical empathy, embracing vulnerability and unique expression, and finding power and strength in existence. Basit earned their BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Oklahoma, and some of their professional theatrical credits include, Sam in PILLOWTALK Off-Broadway, and Tribe in the European Tour of Hair! The Musical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/44bcbd56-2256-4f16-85b8-34cb8bfc15d2/Bianca+Leigh+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Performers - Bianca Leigh Bianca Leigh. Miss Leigh’s acting roles include Waxy Bush in MTC’s THE NAP on Broadway (Understudy/performed), Mary Ellen in the groundbreaking film TRANSAMERICA, Time/Wind in Taylor Mac’s theatre epic THE LILY’S REVENGE, Franny Halcyon in the New York and San Francisco workshops of TALES OF THE CITY THE MUSICAL (performed in concert at the Music Box Theatre), Tatiana in Paul Lucas’ award- winning verbatim piece TRANS SCRIPTS at American Repertory Theatre, Beatrice in Christina Anderson’s MAN IN LOVE at Kansas City Rep, and Dr. Rachel Sandow on LAW & ORDER: SVU. Her play, MBJrT, was part of the Monday Night Playwright Series at Kansas City Rep in 2018. She is featured in Laverne Cox’s documentary DISCLOSURE, an exploration of Trans representation in motion pictures and on television, and can be heard on the Audible recording CHONBURI INTERNATIONAL HOTEL AND BUTTERFLY CLUB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1ac497df-ee9b-446e-b6dd-62098a6ea2f7/Evie+Schuckman+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Performers - Evie schuckman (they/them) Evie Schuckman (they/them) is a multi-hyphenate hailing from South Florida and Chengdu, China. They hold a BFA in Musical Theatre from Boston Conservatory with an emphasis in devising and solo performance. In 2022 Evie played Emory/Mrs. Hsu in Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower (National Tour), and they will be returning to the production next year. Other credits include Before the Flood (Neta), Indigo: The Musical (Indigo), and, at several points in time, every female child in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Evie is currently in residency at The Mercury Store. They live in Brooklyn with their roommate, Eliza, and poodle mix, Sunday. They are a double Leo with a Sag rising, and they are currently knitting a purple sweater. You can find them online @evieschu, and at www.evieschu.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c67ec3f5-56b1-4a72-b42a-37f278d48cbd/yannick-robin+eike+Headshot.jpg OVERHEARD - Performers - yannick-robin eike (they/he) yannick-robin eike (they/he). They dedicate their time on stage in this role to all of the BIPOC, Disabled, + TGNC performers that paved the way for him, and to JRG. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4d11a9bd-71d7-4d40-b375-9b5dde24f25b/ayla.jpeg OVERHEARD - Performers - Ayla Sullivan (they/he) ayla xuân chi sullivan (they/he) is a Black, Vietnamese, and Filipinx, non-binary, performance artist from the lands of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Nuche colonially known as Denver, CO. Harlem based, Sullivan is the inaugural New Visions Fellow of National Queer Theatre and the Dramatists Guild. Their work has been showcased at MCC Theatre, The Other Side of Silence, throughout Denver, and briefly in Dakar, Senegal. They have been published in American Theatre, The Dramatist, Playbill, Westword, and 303Magazine. They are currently developing two television series with SMAC Entertainment. Stage Credits: Jubilee for a New Vision. Screen Credits: Girls5Eva BFA: University of Colorado Boulder. MFA: Columbia University. https://www.btb-nyc.com/testimonials daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://www.btb-nyc.com/overview daily 0.75 2025-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1d1863c2-c999-4d41-bef5-e6662adbf588/George+Strus+Headshot.jpg Mission & Staff - George Strus (they/them) Founding Artistic Director George Strus (they/them) is a trans non-binary Latiné artist living on the unceded ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape Nation (colloquially known as New York). In addition to their role as Founding Artistic Director of Breaking the Binary Theatre, they are also the Founding CEO of theatrical production company Benson Drive Productions, which recently produced TRISHA PAYTAS' BIG BROADWAY DREAM featuring Ben Platt, Sutton Foster, and Rachel Zegler, raising over $100,000 for Entertainment Community Fund. Projects in development include Amber Ruffin’s BIGFOOT, Stephen Sondheim’s THE FROGS (Off-West End), and additional projects to be announced. Their commercial co-producing credits include OH, MARY!, ILLINOISE (Tony nomination), ROMEO + JULIET, HERE WE ARE, ALL IN, THE ROOMMATE and more. They were awarded the 2024 Prince Fellowship and are a member of the 2025 Shubert Organization Artistic Circle. Previously, they held positions at Second Stage Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater, Audible Theater, A3 Artists Agency, The Sol Project, Pride Plays at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Playbill, Stacey Mindich Productions, Alchemation, Telsey + Company Casting, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. www.georgestrus.com / @GeorgeStrus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/be844d31-c219-42f5-b8a0-f364da7aa6dc/Bryar+Barborka+Headshot.jpg Mission & Staff - Bryar Barborka (they/them) Literary Manager Bryar Barborka (they/them) is a Chicago-based nonbinary Latine theater artist. They are the Literary Associate at Seven Devils New Play Foundry and the Literary and Casting Associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Bryar has also worked with: Second Stage Theater, The Playwrights' Center, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Teatro Vista, Definition Theatre, Interrobang Theatre Project, and the Ojai Playwrights Conference among others in various capacities. They are passionate about work that expands theater audiences and reaches those that have historically been left out of the American theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/40f56811-532b-470d-82fb-4846220cc344/NBMonahan+Headshot+2024.jpg Mission & Staff - Nora Brigid Monahan (she/her) Development Manager Nora Brigid Monahan (she/her) is a playwright, performer, and arts advocate. She is best known for writing the book to the solo musical DIVA: Live From Hell (music and lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen), as well as the musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando (music and lyrics by Cynthia Saunders), and for the plays Aunt Jack and Maximilien Robespierre Did Nothing Wrong. As a performer, Nora has originated roles by incredible queer writers such as Charles Busch, Ken Urban, and Ianne Fields Stewart. She has been a guest artist at Penn State and Stockton University and also served as an adjunct at Stockton, teaching Theatre History and Script Analysis. Nora has also worked in fundraising and administration for The Lark Theatre, Primary Stages, and the Sharon Playhouse, before joining the team at Breaking the Binary. https://www.btb-nyc.com/core-community daily 0.75 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ff129756-4564-4cf2-be01-6a32e59e85c2/Adam+Rigg+Headshot.jpg Core Community - Adam Rigg (they/them) Adam Rigg (they/them) is a New York based set and costume designer. Adam is a Drama Desk Award, Lortel Award, Princess Grace Award, and a Henry Hewes Design Award winner. They are a Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and a multiple Ovation Award nominee. They are a recipient of the Donald Oenslager and Pierre Cardin Fellowship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/db550dc8-2991-4d87-af7b-207841a4bef9/Ce%CC%81sar+Alvarez+Headshot.jpg Core Community - César Alvarez (they/them) César Alvarez (they/them) is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create large experimental musicals as non-normative possibility spaces for embodiment, inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, band leader and sound artist, César's work inhabits a space between the worlds of theater, music, performance art and social practice. César has written five full-length musicals, FUTURITY (2016 Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical); The Elementary Spacetime Show; The Universe is a Small Hat; NOISE (a commission of The Public Theater); and The Potluck. César also composed the music for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon (Soho Rep, TFANA. Drama Desk Nomination), and The Foundry Theater's Good Person of Szechwan (LaMaMa, The Public Theater. Drama Desk Nomination). In 2015 César co-founded Polyphone, a festival of new and emerging musicals at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and served as Artistic Director for five seasons. César was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow, 2020-22 Hermitage Fellow, a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award in 2016, The Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre for Lyrics in 2022. César is currently under commission at Playwright's Horizons and Denver Theater Center and an Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. www.cesaralvarez.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8ac6d228-db8c-4db9-bdef-afd96d76cb6a/Christopher+Burney+Headshot.jpg Core Community - Christopher Burney (they/he) Christopher Burney (he/they) is the current Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film. Previously, he was the Artistic Producer of Second Stage. He teaches creative producing and New York theatre history at Columbia University in the Graduate School of the Arts. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, B.A., and Columbia University, M.F.A. http://www.christopherburney.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/efa31f36-810c-40e2-9ec6-71253cb22275/David+Mendiza%CC%81bal+Headshot+%28pc_+Brandon+Nick%29.jpg Core Community - David Mendizábal (they/he) David Mendizábal (they/he) is a director, designer, one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of the OBIE Award-winning The Movement Theatre Company, and Associate Artistic Director of The Sol Project. Select directing credits include: Sanctuary City (Berkeley Rep/Arena Stage), Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Board Members (Soho Rep/Sol Project), This Bitter Earth (TheatreWorks Hartford) Don't Eat the Mangos (Magic Theatre/Sundance), On The Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf), the bandaged place (NYSAF), Then They Forgot About The Rest (INTAR), And She Would Stand Like This (w/ choreographer Kia LaBeija) and Look Upon Our Lowliness (The Movement), and Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic). David is a 2021 Princess Grace Award Honoraria Recipient in Theater. They were part of the inaugural Soho Rep Project Number One Residency, where they created and directed the short film, eat me!. Alumnus of Ars Nova Vision Residency and Maker's Lab, Drama League Directors Project, Labyrinth Intensive Ensemble, artEquity, NALAC, and LCT Directors Lab. David was a participant in the TCG Leadership U: One-on-One program, where they were the Artistic Associate at Atlantic Theater Company. BFA - NYU/Tisch www.davidmendizabal.com | IG: @its_daveed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b9b23d2f-97ac-4c0b-8c60-ee97aec10c0b/Jen+Silverman+Headshot+%28pc_+Zackary+Canepari%29.jpg Core Community - Jen Silverman (they/them+) Jen Silverman’s (they/them+) plays include Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; The Moors; The Roommate; and Witch. They have been produced off-Broadway, regionally across the US, and internationally in Australia, the UK, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Spain. Jen is the author of the debut novel We Play Ourselves and the story collection The Island Dwellers (Random House) and the poetry chapbook Bath, selected by Traci Brimhall for Driftwood Press. Additional work has appeared in Vogue, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Sun, Literary Hub, Yale Review, and elsewhere. Recently, Jen wrote The Miranda Obsession as a narrative podcast for Audible, starring Rachel Brosnahan. Jen also writes for TV and film. Jen is a three-time MacDowell Fellow and a member of New Dramatists. Honors include the Yale Drama Series Award, a Lilly Award, fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts (2022, Prose) and the Guggenheim (2022, Drama). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1d393747-769c-424e-9cf6-55b21423a001/John+Cameron+Mitchell+Headshot.jpg Core Community - John Cameron Mitchell (he/they) John Cameron Mitchell (he/they). @johncameronmitchell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/165027aa-9504-4865-bb8b-b85a061119ea/1K9A2673-Modifier.jpg Core Community - Kit Yan (they/she/he) Kit Yan (they/she/he) is a Yellow American New York based artist, born in China, and raised in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Kit is a 2023 Helen Merrill Award recipient, 2022 Harold Adamson Lyric Award winner, 2021 Jonathan Larson Grant and Kleban Prize recipient for Libretto, a 2021 Sundance IDP Fellow and grantee, a 2019 Vivace Award recipient for big ideas in musical theater, a former Musical Theater Factory Makers Fellow, Playwright’s Center fellow, Company One/Pao Arts Fellow, Lincoln Center Writer in residence, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Their films have been shown at OUTfest, CAAMfest, The LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and The Asian American International Film Festival among many others. They have worked for Disney, Milk and Cookies, and others in tv and film. Kit’s works include INTERSTATE, which won "Best Lyrics" at the 2018 New York Musical Theater Festival, QUEER HEARTACHE which won 5 awards at the Chicago and SF Fringe Festivals, and MISS STEP which received a first draft commission from 5th Avenue theater. Kit’s work has been supported by Playwrights Horizons, MCC, OSF, Keen Company, and San Diego Repertory Theater. Their work has been produced by the American Repertory Theater, the Smithsonian, NAMT, Musical Theater Factory, the New York Musical Festival, Mixed Blood, and Diversionary Theater. @kityanpoet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b159ce0f-326e-4755-ad80-8d2d94332385/KO+Headshot+%28pc_+Lianne+Milton%29.jpg Core Community - KO (f.k.a Karen Olivo) (they/them) KO (they/them) is a multi-hyphenate living/working on the unceded ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk Nation in Madison, WI. They are most widely known for their acting work that spans the last 25 years on Broadway and TV. In the Spring of 2020, KO transitioned into teaching to refocus their energy on the future. They co-created Mosaic Training, a bi-annual 8 week workshop for young artists from minoritized identities to build community and engage in training free of charge in partnership with Project Broadway and Broadway workshops. KO works at the collegiate level facilitating workshops on culturally responsive teaching practices, characterization and approach, critical analysis of the Musical Theater canon, and education ethos retooling while mentoring artists privately. KO supports grassroots organizations like NYACLU, Pay Equity Standards, The Joy Jackson Initiative, The Industry Standard Group, PAAL, Broadway for Racial Justice, and Groundwater Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/794da9c8-3bec-4f3c-a5d7-d614586df6c3/L+Morgan+Lee+%28she_her%29.jpg Core Community - L Morgan Lee (she/her) L Morgan Lee (she/her) is a Tony Award® nominated actress and storyteller known for her history-making turn in A Strange Loop on Broadway - a performance which also garnered her an Antonyo Award and a Drama League Distinguished Performance nomination. In London, she was seen playing artist Lili Elbe in a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl (currently in development). Other work includes well over a decade of Off-Broadway, Regional, International/National tours and concerts with artists from Paul McCartney to Our Lady J. In the studio, L Morgan was the voice of Ornate Williams in the Sugar Maple Series w. Fred Savage (Osiris Media) and can be found on Joe Iconis' album (Ghostlight Records), The Rainbow Lullaby Album (Broadway Records), and more. For more: @lmorganlee | lmorganlee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/26bb2bda-f91e-4850-81c3-7e75a1b22e8c/MJ+Kaufman+Headshot.jpg Core Community - MJ Kaufman (he/they) MJ Kaufman (he/they) is a writer from Oregon currently living in New York City. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, WP Theater, National Asian American Theater Company, Colt Coeur, Williamstown Theater Festival, InterAct Theater, Yale School of Drama and numerous other theaters and schools around the country as well as in Russia and Australia. They have held residencies at the New Museum, MacDowell Colony, and SPACE on Ryder Farm and are currently a resident playwright at New Dramatists. MJ co-founded Trans Lab Fellowship, a program to support emerging transgender theater artists. MJ has also written for Netflix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7a05b8aa-28ff-4d78-8ed5-0a672dd89bc7/Qween+Jean+Headshot+%28pc_+%40spencerostrander%29.jpg Core Community - Qween Jean (she/her) Qween Jean (she/her) is a New York City based Costume Designer who has designed over 50 shows and counting. She has fully committed her voice to the advocacy of marginalized communities, emphasizing Black Trans people. She is currently among few costuming professionals in the NYC theatre who live their trans identities out loud- while making an effort to ensure she is not the last. Qween founded the Black Trans Liberation in 2020. The organization aims to provide access and employment resources for the TGNC community. Through this work, she has organized community events, protests, and mutual aid drives to denounce the actions of a disenfranchised system and call for an end to racism and white supremacy. She is a firm believer in the preservation and support of Black Trans people and a testament to how one can thrive when adequately paid, supported, and loved. “Hire the girls” is her motto. In 2021 Qween was MOMA PS1’s artist in residency and co-curated Memoriam and Deliverance. This installation called awareness of the last five years of transphobic and fatal violence while celebrating Black Trans leaders in the community. She was also the opening speaker for the March on Washington March on for Voting Rights. Qween has an MFA in Design from NYU Tisch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/5700a950-7b87-4453-9407-c2752b7c0b53/Risa+Shoup+Headshot.jpg Core Community - Risa Shoup (they/them) Risa Shoup (they/them) has almost 20 years experience in senior leadership roles with NYC cultural and community development nonprofits. They have a strong track record of working with cross sector partners to inform strategic policy for the equitable growth of accessible and inclusive cultural services in NYC, in support of the self-determination of NYC's cultural workers, and to co-create subsidized workspace for workers in the creative and cultural sector. In May 2022, Risa was announced as the Co-Executive Director of A.R.T./New York, where they had previously served as Interim Executive Director since August, 2020. Prior to their tenure at A.R.T./New York, Risa served as Senior Consultant at Karp Strategies, with previous tenures as the Executive Director of Spaceworks, Fourth Arts Block (where they consulted on CreateNYC, the City’s first cultural plan), and the Invisible Dog Art Center among others. Risa chairs the board of the Invisible Dog Art Center, is the Treasurer of the Board for Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts New York, and is a Trustee and Co-Chair of the Planning Committee of the American LGBTQ+ Museum. They live in Brooklyn with their family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/026a1a13-6570-4cc4-b00c-1c040b68a09d/Toma%CC%81s+Matos+Headshot.jpg Core Community - Tomás Matos (they/them) Tomás Matos (they/them). Stepping into the spotlight, non-binary Afro-Latiné actor Tomás Matos is making waves as the iconic Keegan in the unapologetic, modern day rom-com FIRE ISLAND, inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice - directed by Andrew Ahn and starring Bowen Yang, Margaret Cho & Joel Kim Booster. Born & raised in NYC, Tomás attended and graduated from the renowned “FAME” Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in Lincoln Center. They were an original broadway cast member of, DIANA THE MUSICAL and made history as one of the first non-binary performers to play the role of a ‘Fate’ in HADESTOWN on Broadway. Tomás was also the face of this year’s Savage x Fenty’s Pride Campaign! During the pandemic, Tomás and their grandma started a food delivery service called ‘Empanada Papi’ which gave 15% of profits to homeless LGBTQ youth in NYC. A true artist & advocate bringing gender inclusivity & awareness to the industry, Tomás uses their voice to empower and uplift those around them. They advocate for those living with HIV/AIDS and have been candid about leading a sober lifestyle and past struggle with addiction. They take pride in constantly growing, evolving, learning and sharing their fabulous light with the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a5b6bc3d-7ae0-4d7d-bdce-62b3cf0b0b35/Ty+Defoe+Headshot.jpg Core Community - Ty Defoe (he/we/ty) Ty Defoe, (he/we/ty, Giizhig) Indigiqueer citizen of Oneida + Ojibwe Nations. Interdisciplinary storyteller, writer/director + world-builder + badass for liberation. Grammy Award, 2021 Sundance Fellow, Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, Jonathan Larson Award, Cultural Capital Fellow w/ First People’s Fund, + Kennedy Center Next 50. www.allmyrelations.earth/present & www.tydefoe.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7cf355b6-4918-40cd-a1f2-9c3a05cccdd7/Will+Davis+Headshot.jpg Core Community - Will Davis (he/him) Will Davis (he/him) is a transgender director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous new work for the stage. https://www.btb-nyc.com/admin-allies daily 0.75 2023-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675275685354-TNEG9GUFLCAYANNSH8HV/MTC.png Admin Allies - Manhattan Theatre Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675275686672-IWVS92EA8AQH3VFU5FOH/MCC.png Admin Allies - MCC Theater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675275685354-H9GOEEDEYSB7NT1VH14Y/NYTW.png Admin Allies - New York Theatre Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675275686661-CJY2R170R8JTDO57UBIA/Playwrights+Horizons.png Admin Allies - Playwrights Horizons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675275687561-MGZOXJRAJ4ORKP51ZHMN/Public.png Admin Allies - Public Theater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675275687718-HLA35LZH83VXLHKM122K/Roundabout.png Admin Allies - Roundabout Theatre Company https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675275688651-PL7A70OIRKY73EWBFWYL/Soho+Rep.png Admin Allies - Soho Rep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675275688433-V68EXEDCB8DUJ1DMUYBL/WP.png Admin Allies - WP Theater https://www.btb-nyc.com/festival daily 0.75 2025-09-29 https://www.btb-nyc.com/new-work daily 0.75 2024-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a07f678f-b03a-4f75-bc06-f4a0b27eca35/ruth+tang+Headshot+%28Nathaniel+Johnston+Photography%29.jpg New Work Development - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.btb-nyc.com/community-building daily 0.75 2023-09-10 https://www.btb-nyc.com/history daily 0.75 2023-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473369876-IVNHXE45YGKBZ7JCK4KC/TRANS+WORLD.jpg History - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473370281-PMH57F5EV83FZ0AXSG3E/TWITCH.jpg History - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473366600-VQQZ6FF9TESKALS8JBSR/HIDE+AND+HIDE.jpg History - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473371315-35F1QTUGDEK2GCH5RXP0/WORK+HARD....jpg History - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fac37717-c835-445b-a589-820a1399ff2b/NANA.jpg History - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473368837-AEJJMZQNOS2UX460EZ8V/THELMA+AND+LOUISE....jpg History - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473368228-WM5SQZPGR8OZPG7ZGQZC/OVERHEARD.jpg History - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1fbec451-6a6a-4c5c-971c-38d72eeb6d9d/AMERICAN+%28TELE%29VISIONS+Affinity+Night.jpg History 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/73a5d46e-0cf7-4ab4-b501-f7eff0a8dead/1776.jpeg History In November of 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre hosted a TNB2S+ Affinity Night at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway production of 1776. Over 200 TNB2S+ artists were given complimentary tickets to the production (in collaboration with Thee Open House Project) and BTB Artist Dominique Rider moderated a post-show talkback with the production’s TNB2S+ cast members and creatives: Ariella Serur (she/they), Bex Ayers (they/she), Imani Pearl Williams (she/they), John Meredith (they/them), Sav Souza (they/them), and Sushma Saha (pronoun inclusive). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/36b9a09d-f9a3-4b40-aa9c-6c2b0be6ea91/CERCLE+HERMAPHRODITOS.jpg History - CERCLE HERMAPHRODITOS by Shualee Cook (she/her) In December of 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre presented a private week-long workshop of Shualee Cook’s CERCLE HERMAPHRODITOS. Directed by L Morgan Lee (she/her) Associate Directed by Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir) Dramaturgy by Al Parker (they/them) Stage Management by Joseph Distl (he/they) Casting by The Telsey Office / Charlie Hano, CSA Featuring Adam Chanler-Berat (he/him), Han Van Sciver (they/them), Joslyn DeFreece (she/her/they/them), Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they), Kevin Kantor (they/them), L Morgan Lee (she/her), Mark Ashin (he/him), and Nick Mathews (he/him) https://www.btb-nyc.com/submissions daily 0.75 2025-09-29 https://www.btb-nyc.com/resources daily 0.75 2024-10-21 https://www.btb-nyc.com/press daily 0.75 2025-09-29 https://www.btb-nyc.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-09-15 https://www.btb-nyc.com/programs daily 0.75 2025-07-07 https://www.btb-nyc.com/the-pink daily 0.75 2023-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/eeb56c4c-2089-490c-81be-c245bd0fe790/rpger.jpg THE PINK - Roger Q. Mason (they/them) Author and Performer Roger Q. Mason (they/them) was recently touted by The Brooklyn Rail as "quickly becoming one of the most significant playwrights of the decade." Their playwriting has been seen on Broadway at Circle in the Square (Circle Reading Series); Off and Off-Off-Broadway at MCC Theatre with Carnegie Hall, La Mama ETC, New York Theatre Workshop, New Group, The Fire This Time Festival, Dixon Place, American Theatre of Actors, Flea Theatre, and Access Theater; and regionally at McCarter Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Victory Gardens, Chicago Dramatists, Steep Theatre, Serenbe Playhouse, Theatre Rhinoceros, Open Fist Theatre Company, EST/LA, Coeurage Theatre, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Son of Semele, and Skylight Theatre. Roger is an honoree of the Kilroys List; the Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award; the Fire This Time Festival Alumni Spotlight; and the Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore Producers Award. Mason’s films have been recognized by the British Film Institute Flare Festival, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, SCAD Film Festival, Oscar Micheaux Film Festival, AT&T Film Award, Atlanta International Film Festival, Webby Awards, and Telly Awards. They've screened at the British Film Institute Flare Festival, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, Inside Out Festival (Toronto), SCAD Film Festival, Hollyshorts, Outfest and Outfest Fusion, Bentonville Film Festival, Outshine Film Festival, and the Pan African Film Festival. Mason holds degrees from Princeton University, Middlebury College, and Northwestern University. They are a member of Page 73's Interstate 73 Writers Group and Primary Stages Writing Cohort, an alumnus of The Fire This Time Festival, the co-host of Sister Roger's Gayborhood podcast, and the lead mentor of the Shay Foundation Fellowship and the New Visions Fellowship. Instagram: @rogerq.mason https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a6e60e48-1859-47e6-a038-7c23938595e7/e.jpeg THE PINK - é boylan (they/them) Director é boylan (they/them) is a NYC based director, creator, and composer developing new work towards trans liberation. Past selected honors include: 2019 Trans Lab Fellow, 2019-20 MTC Directing Fellow, 2020 NAMT Musical Challenge Award, 2021 JMF Songwriter, 2021 Prospect MT Lab Commission, 2022 MTFxR Garage Artist. Currently, é serves as a member of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Directors Group and Musical Theatre Factory's Makers Cohort II, as well as a Resident Playwright at Lincoln Center Theater. www.eboylan.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b4c5b040-b37c-4975-80f7-481072dddd11/gaven.jpeg THE PINK - Gaven Trinidad (they/he/siya) Dramaturg Gaven Trinidad (they/he/siya) is a Filipinx American director-dramaturg-playwright. Their artistic work examines the intersections of social justice, race, immigration, queerness, mental health, and community. They have worked as an artist and/or as an arts administrator at 2nd Stage, The Juilliard Drama Division, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, IAMA Theatre, and National Queer Theater. Their first play LEARNING HOW TO READ BY MOONLIGHT was recognized as 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist. TCG 2021 Rising Leaders of Color; Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab Cohort Member 22-23; New York Theatre Workshop’s Community Engagement Associate and Leviathan Lab’s dramaturg-in-residence. They live with Bipolar Disorder 1, and they advocate for more empathetic representations and practices in regard to mental health and care on and off-stage. www.gaventrinidadtheatre.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f78d4546-c32b-4e43-9ebb-31c3317b1478/Ara+Tandon.jpeg THE PINK - Ara Tandon Stage Manager Ara Tandon is a stage manager and multidisciplinary artist who values the power of conceptual art in the pursuit of social progress. Ara is currently studying stage management at Fordham University and recently completed an internship at the historic Cleo Parker Robinson Dance company in Denver, CO. Other Credits: Learning How to Read by Moonlight, written by Gaven Trinidad and produced by Leviathan Lab; You Don't Have to Do Anything, written by Ryan Drake and produced through the IRT 3B Development Series; Production Stage Management of Fordham Playwriting's upcoming production of And This Is Where We, written by Iz Gonzalez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9fd26319-76cc-4d9e-aff7-0eb9c19a491a/Dominic+Colomn.jpeg THE PINK - Dominic Colón Performer Dominic Colón is a Puerto Rican actor, writer, and director from the Bronx. For over 20 years, Dominic taught acting and playwriting at various NYC high schools, hospitals, juvenile detention facilities, and Rikers Island. As an actor, Dominic has appeared in over 60 television shows and movies, including POWER, BULL, MR. ROBOT, LAW & ORDER: SVU, and ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA. As a writer, Dominic's play THE WAR I KNOW has been workshopped at The Atlantic Theater Company and has been developed by The Sol Project and The Latinx Playwrights Circle. THE WAR I KNOW is the first in a trilogy of plays exploring the impact of HIV on the Latinx community in the Bronx from the late '80s through the Covid-19 pandemic, and was the inaugural recipient of the WRITE-IT-OUT Prize, a prize given to a playwright living with HIV, created by playwright Donja R. Love. Dominic's short play PROSPECT AVENUE or THE MISEDUCATION OF JUNI RODRIGUEZ was staged at the 38th Annual Marathon of One-Act plays at Ensemble Studio Theater after originally premiering as part of the MTA Radio Plays at Rattlestick Theater. Most recently, Dominic wrote the episode OUR LADY OF THE SIX TRAIN for the new Queer Latinx scripted podcast anthology, LOVE IN GRAVITY. His television pilot PAPI made THE BLACKLIST's inaugural LATINX TV LIST, a curated list of the ten most promising pilots created by Latinx Writers. As one of the top three finalists, Dominic received a blind pilot deal at HULU. Dominic is a writer on the upcoming Netflix series PINK MARINE, produced by television icon, Norman Lear. https://www.btb-nyc.com/23summer-intensive daily 0.75 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f8564ccc-8c72-4cba-8067-1d5e60469090/Screen+Shot+2023-05-30+at+9.38.05+PM.png SUMMER INTENSIVE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.btb-nyc.com/links daily 0.75 2025-11-10 https://www.btb-nyc.com/raffle daily 0.75 2023-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2d2c04da-4b07-4386-80fa-851cd79bd8c0/Screen+Shot+2023-06-01+at+9.48.34+AM.png RECLAMATION RAFFLE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.btb-nyc.com/timeline daily 0.75 2025-07-13 https://www.btb-nyc.com/2022 daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473369876-IVNHXE45YGKBZ7JCK4KC/TRANS+WORLD.jpg 2022 - 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 (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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473370281-PMH57F5EV83FZ0AXSG3E/TWITCH.jpg 2022 - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473366600-VQQZ6FF9TESKALS8JBSR/HIDE+AND+HIDE.jpg 2022 - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473371315-35F1QTUGDEK2GCH5RXP0/WORK+HARD....jpg 2022 - WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY by reid 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fac37717-c835-445b-a589-820a1399ff2b/NANA.jpg 2022 - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473368837-AEJJMZQNOS2UX460EZ8V/THELMA+AND+LOUISE....jpg 2022 - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1675473368228-WM5SQZPGR8OZPG7ZGQZC/OVERHEARD.jpg 2022 - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1fbec451-6a6a-4c5c-971c-38d72eeb6d9d/AMERICAN+%28TELE%29VISIONS+Affinity+Night.jpg 2022 In October 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/73a5d46e-0cf7-4ab4-b501-f7eff0a8dead/1776.jpeg 2022 In November 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre hosted a TNB2S+ Affinity Night at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway production of 1776. Over 200 TNB2S+ artists were given complimentary tickets to the production (in collaboration with Thee Open House Project) and BTB Artist Dominique Rider moderated a post-show talkback with the production’s TNB2S+ cast members and creatives: Ariella Serur (she/they), Bex Ayers (they/she), Imani Pearl Williams (she/they), John Meredith (they/them), Sav Souza (they/them), and Sushma Saha (pronoun inclusive). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/36b9a09d-f9a3-4b40-aa9c-6c2b0be6ea91/CERCLE+HERMAPHRODITOS.jpg 2022 - CERCLE HERMAPHRODITOS by Shualee Cook (she/her) In December 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre presented a private week-long workshop of Shualee Cook’s CERCLE HERMAPHRODITOS. Directed by L Morgan Lee (she/her) Associate Directed by Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir) Dramaturgy by Al Parker (they/them) Stage Management by Joseph Distl (he/they) Casting by The Telsey Office / Charlie Hano, CSA featuring Adam Chanler-Berat (he/him), Han Van Sciver (they/them), Joslyn DeFreece (she/her/they/them), Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they), Kevin Kantor (they/them), L Morgan Lee (she/her), Mark Ashin (he/him), and Nick Mathews (he/him) https://www.btb-nyc.com/2023 daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7d113169-e232-4677-b787-7e0a47e6f23a/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+3.13.12+PM.png 2023 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1c7699ba-91e2-43b2-a43f-cd1352c5a963/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.22.03+PM.jpg 2023 On Thursday, March 9, 2023, we partnered with Admin Ally New York Theatre Workshop once again to celebrate BTB Artist Liliana Padilla’s HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF. After providing free tickets for over 30 BTB artists to see the production, Liliana (they/them) joined fellow BTB Artists b (they/them) and Dominique Rider for a post-performance talkback, moderated by Leo Mock (they/he). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1ed8ea1e-f855-409c-8c98-b224db616282/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+3.15.45+PM.png 2023 On Friday, March 31, 2023, Breaking the Binary Theatre celebrated International Transgender Day of Visibility by commissioning ten BTB artists to create an original piece of art inspired by the prompt CLOUD NINE. Commissioned artists included Futaba (he/him), Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they), Kedian Keohan (they/he), L Morgan Lee (she/her), Mara Vélez Meléndez (she/her), Noax (they/them), Nora Schell (they/them), Roger Q. Mason (they/them), Sam Hamashima (they/them), and Ty Defoe (he/we/ty). Check out our Instagram page here to see what they came up with! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ff2d1fb5-a043-4314-8112-4726f4745327/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.26.27+PM.png 2023 - THE PINK by Roger Q. Mason (they/them) On Monday, April 3, 2023, as a part of our BTB New Works Program and in partnership with Primary Stages, we presented a public reading of Roger Q. Mason’s THE PINK, reuniting Roger with their HIDE AND HIDE collaborators é and Gaven from the 2022 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. All tickets were complimentary. Directed by é boylan (they/them) Dramaturgy by Gaven Trinidad (they/he/siya) Stage Management by Ara Tandon (they/them) featuring Dominic Colón (he/him), Roger Q. Mason (they/them), and Sergio Mauritz Ang (he/they/siya) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9a56784c-4ea8-484c-b683-6f4a31a4bd8e/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.29.36+PM.png 2023 In May 2023, as a part of our Falco and Steinman BTB Residency Program, we sent Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) and Mara Vélez Meléndez (she/her) up to Basil Kreimendahl and Jenna Worsham's New Roots, a Queer Artist Residency at Walhalla Farm for a week-long residency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9fa17b27-98a6-4636-8efd-c4db961bbf6b/Snapinsta.app_337464720_888687358916263_1883119871067389921_n_1080.jpg 2023 Following its reading presentation in the inaugural 2022 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival, reid tang’s WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY had its world premiere production in May via Clubbed Thumb’s 26th annual Summerworks series. To celebrate, we purchased a group order of tickets to the first preview on Thursday, May 18, 2023 and brought ten BTB artists to celebrate reid and their huge achievement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/205741e7-4d05-470e-a6e2-0a1e914cc1c0/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.37.41+PM.png 2023 - MISS ATOMIC POWER by Molly Bicks (they/them) On Monday, June 5, 2023, we partnered with our new friends over at Rat Queen Theatre Co. to co-produce a reading of Molly Bicks’ MISS ATOMIC POWER as a part of our New Works Program. Co-created and directed by Carsen Joenk (she/her) Produced by Reed Northrup (he/they) featuring Anthony Holiday, Carolyn Kettig, Joe Tapper, Joslyn DeFreece, and Shaun Taylor-Corbett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/74839ad8-78cf-4ddb-886c-1c98da31ebf3/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.42.45+PM.png 2023 To kick off Pride weekend, on Saturday, June 24, 2023, in partnership with Playbill and the Times Square Alliance, Breaking the Binary Theatre took over Times Square to produce Spotlight On: TNB2S+ Songwriters, showcasing the work of some of the brightest transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) composers writing in the theatre today. Directed by JJ Maley (they/he/ze) Hosted by Marti Gould Cummings (they/them) Featuring the work of: ✨Emerson Mae & Murphy Taylor Smith (both she/her) ✨Heath Saunders (they/them) ✨Jaime Jarrett (they/he) ✨Nora Schell (they/them) ✨Truth Future Bachman (they/them) Additional Performer: Samy Nour Younes Figaredo (he/him/they/them) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c9ae069d-ab2c-4046-9ceb-f2ee157036c1/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.45.58+PM.jpg 2023 Speaking of Playbill… a feature on Breaking the Binary Theatre and our Founding Artistic Director, George Strus, was included in every June 2023 Pride Playbill! The piece, written by Playbill’s Leah Putnam, is also available to read online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b2c488a4-5f25-4734-861c-2ef21ba616a6/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.48.11+PM.jpg 2023 On Monday, June 26, 2023, it was announced that reid tang (they/them) was named the inaugural recipient of our $10,000 commissioning program! All alumni from the 2022 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival were able to submit for the opportunity. After their involvement in the inaugural 2022 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival, Breaking the Binary Theatre is now working with reid to create and develop a new, original full-length piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/37ee18d3-32b6-4784-907c-5b46eb9131ae/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.58.05+PM.png 2023 - TWITCH by Liliana Padilla (they/them) at Williamstown Theatre Festival On that same day (Monday, June 26, 2023), Breaking the Binary Theatre packed our bags and traveled to Williamstown, MA for an eleven-day residency at Williamstown Theatre Festival to further explore the world of Liliana Padilla’s TWITCH (a piece developed in the inaugural 2022 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival). Directed by Jack Ferver (they/them) Dramaturg: Desiree S. Mitton (she/they) Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Jude Brandt (they/them) Production Assistant: Meghan Piper Johnson (they/them) featuring Alex Might (her), Jojo Brown (she/her), Joslyn DeFreece (she/her/they/them), Pauli Pontrelli (they/them/ze/zir), and TL Thompson (they/them/T) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ca953fc7-84bb-4ba0-b94c-d7ab5387ecfc/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+4.57.57+PM.png 2023 - RACIAL BONUS by Dominique Rider at New York Stage and Film Immediately thereafter on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, also as a part of our Falco and Steinman BTB Residency Program, we spent a week in-residence at New York Stage and Film in Poughkeepsie, New York, developing Dominique Rider’s RACIAL BONUS. Directed by Garrett Allen (they/them) Dramaturg: Zach Ezer Stage Manager: Kasson Marroquin (they/he) featuring Futaba (he/him/his), Han Van Sciver (they/them), m. imani west (m/they), Mariyea (she/they), Nina Grollman (all pronouns), rohr driscoll (they/them), and Susannah Perkins (they/them) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/294be15c-423c-4214-b9a3-bae7bd4307ff/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+5.00.10+PM.png 2023 On Friday, July 21, 2023, Breaking the Binary Theatre took over BroadwayCon to present UNLIMITED: An All-TNB2S+ Cabaret on the Main Stage, followed by POINT ME TOWARD TOMORROW: An All-TNB2S+ Panel on the Soho Stage. Performers and panelists included: ✨ Adina Verson (they/she) ✨ Arewà Basit (they/she) ✨ Danny Marin (they/them) ✨ George Strus (they/them) ✨ Hennessy Winkler (he/him) ✨ Ianne Fields Stewart (they/she) ✨ Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they) ✨ Kolton Krouse (they/them) ✨ L Morgan Lee (she/her) ✨ Marla Louissaint (she/they) ✨ Max Crumm (they/them) ✨ Max Vernon (they) ✨ MJ Kaufman (he/they) ✨ Sushma Saha (pronoun inclusive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/62f82b5b-bb64-4e9d-9d0c-4d8dc71b1a18/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+5.04.26+PM.png 2023 In July and August, Breaking the Binary Theatre hosted our first-ever educational program: a Summer Intensive led by L Morgan Lee (she/her) for emerging TNB2S+ musical theater performers. Supported by accompanist James Rushin (he/she), our dazzling participants (chosen out of numerous TNB2S+ performers who submitted via an open call) were: Flower Estefana Rios (she/they) Grayson James (he/him) Luz Ballestér (they/he) Sam Hamashima (they/them) Spencer Petro (they/them) Vi Dang (they/she) The group gathered for three sessions to gain confidence with audition materials, forge new industry connections, and hone in on their craft, culminating in work sessions with Broadway casting directors Charlie Hano, CSA (he/him), Jason Thinger, CSA (he/him), and Tara Rubin, CSA (she/her). The program was free for the six participants, who also received travel reimbursements to ensure they got home safely after the sessions ended at 9pm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/5be026e2-91ee-45e4-8739-ef057d72c760/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+5.08.25+PM.png 2023 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/504bfac3-3a20-461a-96e9-6a5dbf0a5ff9/Screen+Shot+2023-09-10+at+5.12.52+PM.png 2023 - THE QUEEN OF TIME by Ashley Lauren Rogers (she/they) On Saturday, September 9, 2023, Breaking the Binary Theatre produced a closed, one-day reading of Ashley Lauren Rogers’ THE QUEEN OF TIME as a part of our New Works Program. 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Dramaturg: Sam Morreale (they/them) Stage Manager: Angie Salazar featuring Garnet Williams, Jayae Riley Jr., Marquise Vilson, and Qween Jean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c64356dc-d18d-491f-8eeb-93c2c59ce1c1/Screen+Shot+2023-12-16+at+10.22.36+AM.png 2023 On Friday, October 6, 2023, OVERHEARD: Fourteen Monologues Written By TNB2S+ Artists For TNB2S+ Artists, the culminating project of the inaugural 2022 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival, became available to purchase and license via Broadway Licensing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/42e9d24c-3567-4fea-bed4-919f15e6fb3d/Screen+Shot+2023-12-16+at+10.24.42+AM.png 2023 - BLANCHE AND STELLA by A.A. Brenner (they/them/he) From Saturday, October 14 - Monday, October 16, 2023, Breaking the Binary Theatre hosted a three-day workshop of A.A. Brenner’s BLANCHE AND STELLA, culminating in an invited presentation for the BTB community, as a part of our New Works Program. Directed by Colm Summers (he/him) Dramaturg: Anisa Threlkeld Stage Manager: Jude Brandt featuring McLean Peterson, Rachel Sachnoff, Jamen Nanthakumar, and Reed Northrup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/63a8552e-3071-48df-8b14-11cab8d7592e/400839314_1515867629226672_7627614243802435323_n.jpg 2023 - MRS. ASHWOOD’S HOME FOR LOST AND WANDERING MOTHERS AND THE CHILDREN THEY LEAVE BEHIND by Gina Femia From Thursday, November 9 - Friday, November 10, 2023, Breaking the Binary Theatre produced a closed, two-day workshop of Gina Femia’s MRS. ASHWOOD’S HOME FOR LOST AND WANDERING MOTHERS AND THE CHILDREN THEY LEAVE BEHIND. Directed by Asher Lloyd Ehrenberg (they/them) featuring Becca Ayers, Kellie Overbey, L Morgan Lee, Marie Elena O’Brien, Susannah Perkins, and Vanessa Kai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f9c2356b-7955-49e3-8184-55c0515934ec/Screen+Shot+2023-12-17+at+12.00.55+PM.png 2023 - MY SON’S A QUEER (BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO?) by Rob Madge (they/them) on Broadway On Monday, December 18, 2023, it was announced that Breaking the Binary Theatre would be making its Broadway debut on BTB Artist Rob Madge’s MY SON’S A QUEER (BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO?) in the spring of 2024. Breaking the Binary Theatre will be partnering with Queer Arts Coalition to lead the production’s gender inclusivity training and community engagement work. Performances begin on February 27, 2024 at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. https://www.btb-nyc.com/23festival daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/33058824-201f-4491-9725-3a598efd13b6/FestivalFinal1+%281%29.png 2023 FESTIVAL - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e7f87cb7-ce46-4662-b159-6b32374f367c/397279979_1053978399088856_1596750754762260886_n.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e8ec0b6a-0f93-4af3-9768-6aa276ca5d29/396734878_3254164661543562_5170546781648735086_n.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - PARADISE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY REVUE MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023 7:30PM at 3 Dollar Bill co-conceived by Noax (they/them) and George Strus (they/them) featuring Be Steadwell (they/he/she/be), Bobby Pocket Horner (they/he), Dane Figueroa Edidi (she/her), Ernest Allen (they/them), justine lee hooper (they/she), Las Mariquitas, Mariyea (she/her), Murray Hill (he/him/showbiz), Noax (they/them), Qween Jean (she/her), and Sara Ramírez (they/them) PARADISE is Breaking the Binary Theatre’s first-ever interdisciplinary revue. Co-conceived by Noax (they/them) and BTB Founding Artistic Director George Strus (they/them), the special opening performance will showcase the talents of eleven stellar TNB2S+ artists of various disciplines: vocalists, drag artists, comedians, and more! For more information on PARADISE, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/af9926b8-2e7b-4f8b-b2cc-c2088ccbe0ed/396900939_349399670931865_6166572100426373547_n.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - MOON BEAR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023 7:30PM at The Shiva Theater at the Public by Nina Ki (xe/she/they) Directed by cara hinh (they/she) Stage Manager: Angela Salazar Dramaturg: Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel (she/they) featuring Ashil Lee (pronoun inclusive), Che’Li (they/them), Clew (they/them), Futaba (he/him/his), Jojo Brown (she/her), Si Chen (she/they/她), and Wesley Han (they/them) with Stage Directions read by Marshall Joun (they/he/she) Silver and Richie are siblings without parents. As the two grow up, they cling to one another as each other's family, and help one another navigate their positions as social outsiders - Silver as a genderqueer weirdo, and Richie as a drug dealing gangbanger. In a parallel world, Bear is ousted from his tribe and through a gesture of filial piety, is turned by Hwanung, a gay Korean god, into a human woman. S/he is then coerced into being Hwanung's pregnant beard and has Hwanung's child. As family bonds begin to disintegrate, and the god-world begins to crumble, Silver and Bear must redefine home for themselves, to find power through the magic of stories. For more information on MOON BEAR, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/68ac69ee-d452-418c-88d3-4eec6fdbf125/396483806_349120530846593_9061991096294002288_n.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - PLAY MAID WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023 7:30PM at The Shiva Theater at the Public Written and performed by Jesús I. Valles (they/them) Directed by Liliana Padilla (they/them) Stage Manager: Beatrice Perez-Arche Movement Director: Ishmael Gonzalez (any pronouns) Vocal Coach: Josh 'J' Feliciano-Sanchez Moser (they/them/elle) PLAY MAID is a spell, a pre-emptive mourning ritual for my mother, who will be taken from me too soon by the labor she's performed in the service of all the women she cleaned for, all the babies she was paid to raise. This play is a eulogy for Lupe Ontiveros, legendary for playing over 150 maids in her acting career. This play is me obsessing over my strange desire to become my mother, whose love has absolutely devastated me. This is my obsession with ending this place and the labor that is killing her. Structured as a series of monologues that interrogate the role of the maid as a sociological, theatrical, and pop culture figure, PLAY MAID is a confrontation with this house that never ends. For more information on PLAY MAID, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1f0276dc-9198-4020-89d2-3b6b17e05077/396751683_232656496268572_4755817691791320210_n.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - ‘TIA PRAY A SOUND THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023 7:30PM at The Shiva Theater at the Public by a.k. payne Co-directed by abigail jean-baptiste (all pronouns) and Jaz Hall (they/them) Clowning Consultant: Jay Délise (they/them) Stage Manager: Shiku Thuo (any pronouns with love) featuring a.k. payne, Alicia Pilgrim (she/they), Cristina Pitter (they/she), Joy-Marie Thompson (they/she), Maleek Rae (they/them), and N'yomi Allure Stewart (she/her) sound and her mama, kendra, have lost a lot of memories. they gather on kendra’s back porch to try to put things back together. along the way, clowning elephants try to help sound along the journey and patriarchal shadows try to steal their dreams. can this Black mother and child witness one another by the end? For more information on ‘TIA PRAY A SOUND, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/649d711b-3b41-48d7-9cae-7fa27cecfa08/397376641_2605344712958460_5900283071518936416_n.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2023 7:30PM at The Shiva Theater at the Public by travis tate (they/them) Directed by Dominique Rider Dramaturg: Dezi Tibbs (they/she) Stage Manager: Rachel April (they/them) featuring Ashton Muñiz (they/he), b (they/them/b), Lío Mehiel (they/them), Omari K. Chancellor, and Reed Northrup (he/him) with Stage Directions read by Vann Dukes (they/them) A gaggle of gay men are all out on their own journeys to enlightenment. In many different ways. Which leads them to lifestyle meetings led by the illustrious, social media queen, Uriel. Max wants happiness. Shail and Darren want a baby. Lucas wants a boyfriend. Well, maybe? The line between the internet and reality begins to blur as the group find their ways, by any means necessary, to their most desired wishes. YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL is a play about what happens when the ambitious pursuit of desires becomes the only way to survive. For more information on YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c509dc2e-d7bc-41ba-a184-ee38870730f6/397203633_364320482688186_6520531060204222137_n.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - FIGHT CALL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2023 7:30PM at The Shiva Theater at the Public by Sarah Mantell (they/them) Directed by Mei Ann Teo (they/them) Associate Fight Director: Alex Might (her) Dramaturg: Jeremy Tiang (he/they) Stage Manager: Mars Juno Bartolome Neri (they/them) Fight Director: Rocío Mendez (they/she) featuring Diana Oh “Zaza D” (they/them), Jonny Beauchamp, Marquise Vilsón, Pooya Mohseni (she/her), Sagan Chen (they/he), and Susannah Perkins with Stage Directions read by Andres Martinez (any pronouns with respect) How many ingenues can Emma play before she just completely loses it? FIGHT CALL is a time-bending story told through the fight calls for all of Shakespeare’s onstage female death scenes. For more information on FIGHT CALL, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/dcc46724-502a-41cc-86d1-cedbdc658f8b/397492355_698099855293609_1122692486328820659_n.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - BLISS: A COLLECTION OF COMMISSIONED SCENES AND MONOLOGUES SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023 7:30PM at The Shiva Theater at the Public co-conceived by L Morgan Lee (she/her) and George Strus (they/them) directed by L Morgan Lee (she/her) in partnership with Broadway Licensing featuring new works by Dante Green (they/he/she), Dena Igusti, Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel, Haruna Lee (they/them), Kit Yan (they/he/she), L Morgan Lee (she/her), Nazareth Hassan, Noax (they/them), Preston Max Allen (he/him), R. Réal Vargas Alanis (they+), Rob Madge (they/them), and Shualee Cook (she/her) Dramaturg: George Strus (they/them) Stage Manager: Kasson Marroquin (they/he) featuring Indya Moore (she/her), Kyr Siegel (he/him), River Gallo (they/them), Sara Ramírez (they/them), and Temidayo Amay (they/he) with stage directions read by Kathel Griffin (they/them/he/him) Following last year’s presentation of OVERHEARD: Fifteen Commissioned Monologues Written BY TNB2S+ Artists FOR TNB2S+ Artists, BTB Core Community member L Morgan Lee and Founding Artistic Director George Strus are partnering with Broadway Licensing once again to create BLISS: A Collection of Commissioned Scenes and Monologues. The twelve commissioned works will be crafted together and brought to life by a cast of five TNB2S+ performers to close the 2023 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. The works will then be published and licensed by Broadway Licensing in 2024. For more information on BLISS, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/92fae8a0-021e-44c2-9c25-ec83e053e873/Bryar%2BBarborka%2BHeadshot.jpeg 2023 FESTIVAL - Bryar Barborka (they/them) Literary Manager Bryar Barborka (they/them) is a Chicago-based nonbinary Latine theater artist. They are the Literary Associate at Seven Devils New Play Foundry and the Literary and Casting Associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Bryar has also worked with: Second Stage Theater, The Playwrights' Center, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Teatro Vista, Definition Theatre, Interrobang Theatre Project, and the Ojai Playwrights Conference among others in various capacities. They are passionate about work that expands theater audiences and reaches those that have historically been left out of the American theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8bd6e865-c788-4400-902c-50354c22190c/Charlie+Hano+%28he_him%29.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - Charlie Hano (he/him) Casting Director Charlie Hano, CSA (he/him). Charlie is a casting professional and creative consultant based in New York and Chicago. Some of his previous credits include MUD (Mabou Mines, winner of a 2020 Obie Award for best director), Work In Progress: Season 2 (PR Casting, Showtime), The Life! (Encores), Camelot (The MUNY), The Wolves (Actors Theatre of Louisville), soft (MCC), and John Proctor Was The Villian (Studio Theatre in DC). In addition, he is a member of the team at The Telsey Office. For more information, visit www.hanocasting.org. Charlie is a proud member of the transgender community and is thrilled to be part of this festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f9be17f8-ce2c-4679-8c4f-35083f022c24/Esme%CC%81+Maria+Ng+%28they_she_he%29.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - Esmé Maria Ng (they/she/he) Associate Producer Esmé Maria Ng (they/she/he) is an early-career theater maker who loves heartbreak, new plays, and laughing through the pain. As a playwright, Esmé has been honored as a 2023 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow, and a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Premiere Play Festival at Kean University, and the Van Lier New Voices Fellowship at Rattlestick. As a dramaturg/arts administrator/script evaluator Esmé has worked with several notable theaters including Manhattan Theatre Club, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Breaking the Binary Theatre, The Playwrights Realm, and Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Esmé is currently the Outreach and Engagement Associate at Classic Stage Company, a member of the American Theatre Group’s BIPOC PlayLab, and a freelance dramaturg in New York city. @esmemariang esmemariang.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b6a577be-56bd-460c-a43a-7d86a6496e36/Marc+Ella+Roy+headshot.png 2023 FESTIVAL - Marc Ella Roy (they/them) Graphic Designer Marc Ella Roy (they/them) is a butch nonbinary graphic designer, multimedia artist, and recent graduate of Hunter College's Emerging Media program, currently working on unceded Lenape land / the NYC metro area. They have crafted illustrations and visual identities for a range of touring musicians, small businesses, academic publications, and nonprofits. In their work, they hope to reveal the web of connections that unite seemingly disparate disciplines and social issues. @marcplusella https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c9b38fff-4bde-45fd-9395-5d5ee773ba71/Nazareth%2BHassan.jpeg 2023 FESTIVAL - Nazareth Hassan Sound Designer Nazareth Hassan is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, writing, music, video, and photography. Recent performance works include Untitled (1-5) at The Shed (text published by 3 Hole Press), VANTABLACK at Theatretreffen Stuckemarkt in Berlin, #2112 at Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, and Memory A at Museo Universitario del Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. Their first collection of poetry and photography Slow Mania will be published in 2025 by Futurepoem. They have released 4 singles, available on all platforms. They were the 2022 resident dramaturg at the Royal Court Theatre in London. They are a 2023-25 Jerome Hill artist fellow and a current resident of the Vineyard Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/56618d8f-6b47-449d-a367-45249734b02f/Sam+Morreale+%28they_them%29.jpg 2023 FESTIVAL - Sam Morreale (they/them) Cultural Consultant Sam Morreale (they/them) is currently the Associate Producer at Soho Rep, and is thrilled to join BTB again this year as the Cultural Consultant. With facilitation at the core of their practice, they've had a blossoming career as a creative producer working with many companies including Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theater, New York Stage and Film/Powerhouse, The Prelude Festival, Mixed Blood Theater, Penumbra Theater, and Theater Communications Group. In addition, Sam has developed a portfolio of consulting work in strategy planning, institutional alignment, and cultural change with arts organizations such as Center Theater Group, The New Harmony Project, Ars Nova, Boston Court Pasadena, ART/NY, New Georges, and The Acting Company. Sam is also nurturing their artistic practice in rehearsal rooms as a dramaturg, director, and culture shaper constantly seeking to break down dissonance between artist and institution. B.A. Wesleyan University, Theater and Science in Society. https://www.btb-nyc.com/paradise daily 0.75 2023-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/83c8c27f-9501-4057-acb1-86b8c78bff6b/Noax+%28they_them%29+%281%29.jpg PARADISE - Noax (they/them) Co-conceiver & Performer Noax (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Manhattan. They have worked professionally in the entertainment industry for several years as an actor, singer, writer, and advocate in NYC. They seek to foster community amongst the various ecosystems they inhabit and discover transformative ways in which we can educate artists that are rooted in equity, self-empowerment, and community building. Organizations to consider donating to: Breaking the Binary, Black Trans Liberation, For the Gworls, Black Trans Femmes in the Arts, and The Marsha P. Johnson Institute. www.noax.me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/84d3fa5e-bdfe-4204-9532-f2026a514c0d/George+Strus+%28they_them%29.jpeg PARADISE - George Strus (they/them) Co-conceiver George Strus (they/them) is a trans non-binary Latiné artist based on the unceded ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape people (colloquially known as New York). They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre: a new work development and community building hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ theatermakers. In addition to their role as Founding Artistic Director of Breaking the Binary Theatre and their freelance producorial and dramaturgical work, they also currently serve as Artistic Producer at The Sol Project, Seasonal Producing Manager at The Public Theater, Producers Cohort Program Facilitator at The Tank, and Theatre Scout at Curate Management. Previously, they held positions at Second Stage Theater, A3 Artists Agency, Manhattan Theatre Club, Pride Plays at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Playbill, Stacey Mindich Productions, Alchemation, Telsey + Company Casting, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. @GeorgeStrus / www.georgestrus.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2da8dde9-50ee-4609-84be-fec52558c78a/Be+Steadwell+%28they_he_she_be%29.jpeg PARADISE - Be Steadwell (they/he/she/be) Performer Be Steadwell (They, She, He, Be) is a queer pop composer and storyteller from Washington DC. Be composes songs on stage using looping, vocal layering and beat boxing. Be's original music features earnest lyricism, and affirming queer content. Be's goal as a musician is to make other black girlies, introverts and weirdos feel seen and loved. Be earned a BA in Black Studies from Oberlin College and an MFA in film from Howard University in 2014. Be's thesis film Vow of Silence screened in film festivals around the world, including Black Star, HBO's OutFest, The Schomburg Center and Inside Out Toronto. In 2019, Be composed the music for The Alvin Ailey Dance Company's production of "the gone". Later that year, Be wrote and directed A Letter to My Ex, the musical. A Letter to My Ex imagines a queer black woman's experience of healing after a breakup. In 2021 Be released their latest album- Succulent. In 2023, Be joined the cast of Parable of the Sower the Opera by Toshi Reagon and Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8683c0d5-ed78-4f06-ba32-7da6b537acc6/Bobby+Pocket+Horner+%28they_he%29.jpg PARADISE - Bobby Pocket Horner (they/he) Performer Bobby, originally from Toronto Canada, made their Broadway debut in “&Juliet” back in November 2022. For the past decade, Bobby has been studying and training in Hip Hop and Street Dance. Bobby is the Co-founder of “House of Hunniez” Dance Crew, and an Elite member of Toronto’s “Footnotes” dance crew since 2014. Bobby’s credits include Disney’s “Zombies”, Disney’s “Sneakerella”, FX’s “What We do in the Shadows”, Good Morning America , The 76th Annual Tony Awards, The Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon, among many others. Bobby is also a blossoming actor and singer as well as a mentor and teacher to many. As a non-binary artist, Bobby is determined to continue challenging the gender norms within the industry and create more space and opportunity for other Trans/Non-binary artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/520b8b57-89e3-4125-a59a-241e0a3cbf5a/Dane+Figueroa+Edidi+%28she_her%29.jpg PARADISE - Dane Figueroa Edidi (she/her) Performer Dane Figueroa Edidi Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane is a Black Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American Performance Artist, Author, Educator, Advocate, producer, a Helen Hayes Award winning Playwright (Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem), a 2021 Helen Merrill Award Winner, Film Maker, Dramaturg, a 2x Helen Hayes Award nominated choreographer (2016, 2018), and a Princess Grace Honoria Award winner. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Black Trans Prayer Book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ad042b55-7288-4f3d-91d3-6836a66553c5/Ernest+Allen+%28they_them%29.jpg PARADISE - Ernest Allen (they/them) Performer Ernest Allen (they/them) is a New York born and raised theater artist. Having started both their ballroom and theater journeys in 2018, they are excited to not only bridge together the two worlds in their piece, but to represent nonbinary identities in both spaces. They are nothing less than honored to be part of this show and have gratitude for all those involved. Special shoutout to the kiki house of Gabbana! Keep in touch! Find them on social media @TheErnestAllen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c7eb5150-2323-47b7-988d-35f644bfe0c1/justine+lee+hooper+%28they_she%29.jpeg PARADISE - justine lee hooper (they/she) Performer A New Yorker from birth, the art of flutist and improviser justine lee hooper shares the ethos of the city that never sleeps, melding disparate genres, eras, and timbres to create uniquely human music. Their live sets often invoke the vast interdisciplinary repertoire and legacy of Black creatives, including deft samples and soaring meditative improvisations over live beats. justine has performed for the United Nations and has been acknowledged by The New York Times. They have collaborated with artists such as duendita, Joy Guidry, Key Glock, and Solange. justine also performs with and composes for Queer and Trans salsa band Las Mariquitas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ecef4d19-6ea9-436a-bae8-5b640ff545c7/Las+Mariquitas.JPG PARADISE - Las Mariquitas Performer Las Mariquitas is New York City’s Queer and Trans Salsa band. A political liberation project, Las Mariquitas celebrates the community of LGBTQIA2S+ salserxs in a safe, affirming space. Las Mariquitas shares the stage with queer and trans dance leaders, creating a culture of consent on the dance floor, and honoring the legacy of salsa as liberation music by composing Queer and Transfeminist songs for the canon. The collective features a rotating array of 15 musicians (wind players, piano, bass, tres Cubano, congas, bongos, timbales, and vocalists), and dance leaders from TGNC-On2, a Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Salsa dance collective. Las Mariquitas is currently in residence at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center and C’mon Everybody. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b32b1871-138b-46e4-be2b-cc3bea4988ec/Mariyea+%28she_her%29.jpeg PARADISE - Mariyea (she/her) Performer Mariyea (she/her) is a Brooklyn based actress, performer, teacher and drag artist. Her previous credits include On Sugarland, at New York Theatre Workshop. Along with works presented at Soho Rep, The Shed, Park Avenue Armory, NYSAF and Joe's Pub among others. Soon she can be seen in a feature film soon to be announced on Paramount +. Mariyea also has the privilege of hosting and performing in drag shows in various spaces throughout New York City. In addition to her performance work, Mariyea teaches as an adjunct professor at The City College of New York. Follow Mariyea on Instagram: @mariyeaaaa for further updates. #blacktranslivesmatter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/87d698c0-828d-4ac1-94a2-5b3b0e2a0188/Murray+Hill+%28him_his_showbiz%29.jpg PARADISE - Murray Hill (he/him/showbiz) Performer NYC legend, comedian, TV host, MC and international entertainer Murray Hill (him/his/showbiz) is a relentless shtick slinger, larger-than-life personality, and freewheeling ad-libber. He plays Fred Rococo in Bridget Everett’s Somebody Somewhere (HBO). The show was awarded many “Best of 2022 & 2023” Awards, including “Best New TV Series” from AFI and was just renewed for a third season. He hosts the new competition show Drag Me To Dinner (Hulu). He can be seen on Amy Schumer’s Life & Beth and Welcome to Flatch (FOX) and in Paul Feig’s movie Grand Death Lotto (Amazon Studios) starring John Cena and Awkwafina in 2024. Murray was just a special guest correspondent for ABC News and Hulu’s live historic “Pride Across America” which featured Pride marches in SF, NYC, and Chicago. NBC News selected him as one of the 30 most iconic and influential drag performers in modern history and selected as one of Logo30 for being a changemaker in entertainment. Murray was awarded the New York Voices commission from Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, where he debuted About to Break. His infamous holiday show A Murray Little Christmas has been a perennial sold-out destination for a decade at Joe’s Pub in NYC. He performed his solo comedy show at Just for Laughs, New York Comedy Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For 10 years, Murray hosted Dita Von Teese’s international tour Strip Strip Hooray. He starred for two seasons at the Sydney Opera House in Club Swizzle, which toured major festivals throughout Australia. He’s in music videos for Peaches, Countess Luann, TV on the Radio, The Regrettes, LeTigre, Joan as Police Woman, Bridget Everett, and Gossip. The New York Times anointed Murray “Downtown’s New ‘It’ Boy.” He’s been included in “Best of New York” lists in the Village Voice, Time Out, PAPER, and New York Magazine; inducted into PAPER’s Nightlife Hall of Fame; selected as OUT’s Top 100 influential performers twice; included in New York Magazine’s “Fifty Most Iconic Gender Benders of All Time” and PAPER’s “Top Ten ‘It’ Boys in NYC Nightlife History”; and named one of the Top 12 gender-bending performers in NYC by Time Out. He was recently awarded the Trailblazer Award by Queerty. His campaign for Mayor of New York in 1996 was inducted in the New York Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a25ae6a9-9e78-4d18-afba-33fda79aee59/Qween+Jean+%28she_her%29.jpeg PARADISE - Qween Jean (she/her) Performer Qween Jean is a New York City based Costume Designer who has designed over 50 shows and counting. She has fully committed her voice to the advocacy of marginalized communities, emphasizing Black Trans people. She is currently among few costuming professionals in the NYC theatre who live their trans identities out loud- while making an effort to ensure she is not the last. Qween founded the Black Trans Liberation in 2020. The organization aims to provide access and employment resources for the TGNC community. Through this work, she has organized community events, protests, and mutual aid drives to denounce the actions of a disenfranchised system and call for an end to racism and white supremacy. She is a firm believer in the preservation and support of Black Trans people and a testament to how one can thrive when adequately paid, supported, and loved. “Hire the girls” is her motto. In 2021 Qween was MOMA PS1’s artist in residency and co-curated Memoriam and Deliverance. This installation called awareness of the last five years of transphobic and fatal violence while celebrating Black Trans leaders in the community. She was also the opening speaker for the March on Washington March on for Voting Rights. In 2022 Qween wrote; Revolution is Love: A Year Of Black Trans Liberation. The book is published by Aperture and celebrates the resilience and power of TGNC community. In 2023 she joined the Board for Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and received an Obie Award for Excellence in Costume Design. This year Qween was selected as a finalist for NYC David Prize, which awards $250,000 to a visionaries dream to transform the city. She has an MFA in Design from NYU Tisch. To support the mission please visit https://www.blacktransliberation.com/support-the-movement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7e8125fc-6d6c-4582-846e-a17142a4ec5e/Sara+Rami%CC%81rez+%28they_them%29+%281%29.jpg PARADISE - Sara Ramírez (they/them) Performer 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. https://www.btb-nyc.com/moon-bear daily 0.75 2023-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/54f422e4-7a7e-4fb4-8dfc-b4941ad1608b/Nina+Ki+%28xe_she_they%29.jpg MOON BEAR - Nina Ki (xe/she/they) Writer Nina Ki (xe/she/they) is a Queerean (Queer + Korean) American playwright. Xe holds a BFA from NYU in Dramatic Writing, and xer plays have been read, recorded, and presented nationwide, including with Clubbed Thumb, Ma-Yi Theater Company, MCC Theater, The Parsnip Ship, Yale Summer Cabaret, and Queens Theater. Xer play “Moon Bear” was given special consideration for the Relentless Award, and xer play “Ravage” was a finalist for the Playwrights Realm's Fellowship. Xe was an inaugural member of The Parsnip Ship's Radio Roots Writer's Group and a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writer's Group. Xe is also a member of Ma-Yi's Writers Lab. www.nina-ki.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a51e0eec-0455-48c5-89a3-91ef55a1422c/cara+hinh+%28they_she%29.png MOON BEAR - cara hinh (they/she) Director cara hinh (they/she) is an Indiana-born queer, fat, mixed Viet theatre maker. They rejoice in work that uplifts the messy intersectionalities of holding multiple identities. Recent select credits include Transfer direction of Sanctuary City at Arena Stage and Berkeley Rep, Little Women at Perseverance Theatre, Buried Ruins with the Sống Collective, love you long time (already) at Atlantic MixFest. Cara has been a Drama League Fellow, member of the ‘20-22 Roundabout Directors Group, a Directing Apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville, SDC Observer on Hadestown and a Fellow at Baltimore Center Stage. carahinh.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/161bfcfa-958d-41ce-b969-c6fb99bf7aee/Screen+Shot+2023-10-21+at+2.38.19+PM.png MOON BEAR - Angela Salazar Stage Manager This is Angela Salazar’s second time working with Breaking the Binary Theatre, having previously stage managed the script workshop of POOL by Temidayo Amay (2023). Other regional credits include Stage Management Apprentice at the Denver Center for Performing Arts (2022-2023), Assistant Props for the National Tour of Cats (2021-2022), and Stage Management Intern for the MUNY for Kinky Boots and Footloose (2019). She graduated from the University of Michigan for her Bachelor's and Mesa Community College for their Associate's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/24431e38-60a1-460a-a293-4c198df12795/Yasmin+Zacaria+Mikhaiel+%28she_they%29.jpg MOON BEAR - Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel (she/they) Dramaturg Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel (she/they) is a dramaturg, journalist and oral historian with roots in and around Chicago. As a queer, fat, brown femme, they endeavor to amplify and archive stories that go lost/stolen/forgotten. Their arts writing and research explore possibility models for a more inclusive and sustainable theatre culture and industry (American Theatre magazine, Teen Vogue, Chicago Reader, Windy City Times, Rescripted, Austin Chronicle, Sightlines). As a dramaturg and new play worker, they specialize in queer family drama, theatre for young audiences, and devised theatre (Free Street Theater, Timeline Theatre, Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Goodman Theatre, among others). Learn more at YasminZacaria.com and on socials aka dramaturgically it tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/be409c62-8819-42e4-86fb-5e808ba4ef84/Ashil+Lee+%28pronoun+inclusive%29.png MOON BEAR - Ashil Lee (pronoun inclusive) SILVER Ashil Lee (pronoun inclusive) NYC-based actor, playwright, and sex educator. Korean-American, trans nonbinary child of immigrants. 2023 Lucille Lortel nominee (Outstanding Ensemble: The Nosebleed) Selected acting credits: The Nosebleed (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth), world premiere of Gina Femia's The Virtuous Fall... in rep with Measure for Measure (Spicy Witch Productions), Juliet+Romeo (Pocket Universe), theatrical premiere of Dogville (dir.Robert O'Hara). Playwriting credits: Member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2023-2024 Early Career Writer’s Group. Finalist: Playwright’s Realm Fellowship (23-24). Semi-finalist: Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship (23-24). Former member: Echoes Emerging Writer’s Group 2022-2023 (Primary Stages) and Pataphysics 2020, led by Clare Barron. NYU: Tisch. BFA in Acting, Minor in Youth Mental Health. NYU Steinhardt: Master's Candidate in Mental Health and Wellness. www.ashillee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/32c14b25-b025-4fdf-abac-d8243629cae0/Headshot+1+%282%29.jpeg MOON BEAR - Che’Li (they/them) Che'Li is the life-performance embodiment projected by alyxandra ciale charfauros (they/them), ritualizing consciousness and shaping change at the intersections of beauty, absurdity, and sensuality. They are a Queer, Disabled CHamPinoy healing artist based in NYC. Currently, they are training to be an Alexander Technique teacher and recovering post-grad from University of Michigan’s BFA acting conservatory (‘21). Look out for them in Jess X Snow's upcoming short film, Roots That Reach Toward the Sky and American Stage’s production of The Chinese Lady. (www.cialikethey.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/093d5006-d54b-4e7f-aae5-36c022f52f29/Clew+%28they_them%29.jpg MOON BEAR - Clew (they/them) FATHER Clew (they/them). New York Theater Workshop (american televisions). Regional: A Guthrie Experience (Valór); Trinity Rep (A Christmas Carol, u/s); South Dakota Shakespeare Fest (Othello), Hanover Theatre (Julius Caesar); Second Thought Theatre (Mlima's Tale); Theatre Three (Raptured; She Kills Monsters); Stage West (An Octoroon; The Royal Society of Antarctica). Brown/Trinity Rep: Angels in America; The Winter's Tale; The Skriker. Immensely proud of BTB Fest's dedication to supporting new works and a thriving artistic community for TNB2S+ artists. Thank you Nina, cara, George, and the team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e8900dce-708e-4f5c-9a5a-50111a410e9a/Futaba+Shioda+%28he_him_his%29.jpg MOON BEAR - Futaba Shioda (he/him/his) RICHIE Futaba Shioda (he/him/his) is a trans, Asian actor and cultural worker invested in labor rights and community autonomy. His work bridging art and advocacy have earned him an Obie Award and the Paul Robeson Award. Select Theater Credits: Gerd in A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group), Clown in The 39 Steps (Rep Theatre of St. Louis), Galatea in Galatea (WP Theater), NoFi in BLUSH (SoHo Rep), Alexi Darling/Swing in RENT (20th Anniv. Tour), and numerous developmental works. Film: Therapist Crush (upcoming), Sideways Smile. Voice Over: Kennedy Center for Young Audiences, Spotify’s Raise Your Voice. www.futabashioda.com / @futabashioda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/cd7123f6-d7a7-4f0b-8e32-0969b726dd6e/Jojo+Brown+%28she_her%29.jpg MOON BEAR - Jojo Brown (she/her) MOON Jojo Brown (she/her) is a stage & screen actor from Chicago. Off-Broadway credits include 'CHARM' and '7 Minutes'. Though she is known for her major recurring role as Mindy on 'Single Drunk Female', she has also made appearances on NBC, Showtime, and Comedy Central. Her work focuses on women, queer folks, trans people, laughter and tears. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/488a6a42-edc1-4529-a305-fbc947689025/Si+Chen+%28she_they_%E5%A5%B9%29.png MOON BEAR - Si Chen (she/they/她) TIGER Si Chen (she/they/她) is an actor passionate about stories that show the beauty and complexity of the immigrant, queer, femme, Asian experience. Si is a classically trained violinist and violist, native Mandarin speaker, audiobook narrator, and former AI scientist. Highlights include roles on She-Hulk (Marvel), Guardians of Galaxy: Holiday Special (Marvel), recurring on Wolf Pack (Paramount+), and Gumiho by Nina Ki at the Daryl Roth Theatre (Off-Broadway). Si is represented by Eris Talent (NY/LA) & Atlanta Models & Talent (Southeast). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/22604854-b83f-4a97-a934-da44ef2638db/Wesley+Han+%28they_them%29.jpg MOON BEAR - Wesley Han (they/them) HWANUNG Wesley Han (they/them) is pleased to take part in a performance that captures the intersection of queerness and Korean culture so beautifully. On-screen, they have appeared on Power Book II: Ghost, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, and Russian Doll. Theatrical credits include Swan with Moonbox Productions, Soft Jade with the Yale Summer Cabaret, and Nowhere Man with the National Arts Club. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Wesley was a recipient of the Kaori Kitao Humanities Research Fellowship for their playwriting and received high honors for their superlative work in acting and dramaturgy. Wesley is also a member of SAG-AFTRA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fc3a7537-a7f6-4946-a718-60eabb6dc483/Marshall+Joun+%28they_he_she%29.jpg MOON BEAR - Marshall Joun (they/he/she) Stage Directions Reader Marshall Joun (they/he/she) is an actor, writer and performer based in New York City. Regional: Moi, Moi, Moi (Columbia University) Short Stack II (Ma-Yi), (t)RUST (Tank NYC), Clara & Carmilla (NYFringe), A Chorus Line (Reagle Music Theatre), In The Heights (Elliot Norton Award, IRNE Award), Akeelah and the Bee (Wheelock Family Theatre). Penn State: Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding Are Induced to Murder, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Film: Grand Buffet (2023), Figure of Speech (2023), Wasted Potential (2022). B.F.A Acting from Penn State University. @marshalljoun https://www.btb-nyc.com/play-maid daily 0.75 2023-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f64e167c-fe8c-4baf-864c-847dcfe6f0be/Jesu%CC%81s+I.+Valles+%28they_them%29.jpg PLAY MAID - Jesús I. Valles (they/them) Writer Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant, educator, writer-performer from Cd. Juarez/El Paso. Valles is the winner of a 2023 Princess Grace Award in theater, the 2023 Yale Drama Series (Bathhouse.pptx), the 2022 Kernodle Playwriting Prize (a river, its mouths), and was named the 2022 Emerging Theatre Professional by the National Theatre Conference. As a playwright, Valles has received support from The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, The Flea, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights’ Center, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Valles is a Writing Fellow of The Playwrights Realm and a Core Apprentice of the Playwrights’ Center. They received their MFA in writing for performance from Brown University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/39a7bb74-f761-48ec-9dd5-3581354b1ff4/Liliana+Padilla+%28they_them%29.jpeg PLAY MAID - Liliana Padilla (they/them) Director Liliana Padilla (they/them) wrote and co-directed How to Defend Yourself at New York Theatre Workshop, Winter 2023. How to Defend Yourself was also produced at the Humana Festival and Victory Gardens Theatre. Liliana is a winner of the Yale Drama Series Prize and finalist for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. They created Born 1000 Times, a visual time capsule of friendship, loss and change and Literally by LP, a text-based clothing line. Other works: TWITCH (Breaking the Binary Theatre), (w)holeness (OSF, UCSD), And Then You Wait (La Jolla Playhouse). Liliana teaches at Dartmouth College and the Sewanee Writers Conference. MFA Playwriting, UC San Diego, BFA NYU, Experimental Theatre Wing and Playwrights Horizons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a748dd4e-68e1-4db6-9fc9-e3512c2159c0/Beatrice+Perez-Arche.jpg PLAY MAID - Beatrice Perez-Arche Stage Manager Bea Perez-Arche is a Cuban American Theatre Artist, based in New York City, focused on creating community through her work. She has primarily worked at The Public Theater on the New York Shakespeare Festival, Under The Radar Theatre Festival and the Public Shakespeare Initiative. She is an Associate Artist at Sanguine Theatre Company and has collaborated with a range of companies including, The Flea, Tectonic Theater Project, One Whale’s Tale, Women’s Project Theater, LaMaMa, Little Island, Chelsea Factory and Ballet Collective. She received her BFA in Theater Arts from Boston University and currently freelances as a Stage Manager, Director, and Dramaturg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/de3ade88-6f05-426f-afe4-9746e4b0134d/Ishmael+Gonzalez+%28any%29.jpeg PLAY MAID - Ishmael Gonzalez (any pronouns) Movement Director Ishmael Gonzalez (any pronouns) is a multi-faceted artist born and raised in Miami, FL. Ishmael had the privilege of being a Youngarts Finalist in Theater and Presidential Scholar of the Arts in 2018, taking them to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. After attending New World School of the Arts in Miami, he then graduated from UNC School of the Arts and was the recipient of the Sarah Graham Kenan Scholarship. Ishmael credits their success to family, friends and teachers who have consistently supported their artistic aspirations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c7115a01-85b7-4bd3-bbb9-c8d9ebbf2f67/Josh+%E2%80%9CJ%E2%80%9D+Feliciano-Sanchez+Moser+%28they_them_elle%29.jpeg PLAY MAID - Josh 'J' Feliciano-Sanchez Moser (they/them/elle) Vocal Coach Josh “J” Feliciano-Sanchez Moser (they/them/elle) is an NYC based actor and voice/dialect specialist represented by Brickhouse Talent. They are thrilled to be working on Play Maid at Breaking the Binary Festival. Additional Coaching includes: Utah Shakespeare Festival; Profile Theatre; Phoenix Theatre Ensemble; Brown U/Trinity Repertory; CNN’s Harry Enten; Savannah Stage Company; Savannah Shakes; and others. Currently, Josh is an Assistant Professor in Kean University’s Theatre Conservatory. Josh is certified in Fitzmaurice Voicework® and Knight Thompson Speechwork, with an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. Additional details available at www.JoshFSMoser.com. Proud member: Actor’s Equity Association, the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. Resident Artist Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. https://www.btb-nyc.com/tia-pray-a-sound daily 0.75 2023-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7eeb883e-8a43-4ac7-a6f5-6eb63c1775dc/a.k.+payne.jpg TIA PRAY A SOUND - a.k. payne Writer and Performer a.k. payne is a playwright and theatermaker with roots in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her plays love on and engage Black lives and languages beyond the confines of linear time to find/remember stories that might create conditions for our collective liberation(s). They hold a B.A. in English and African-American Studies from Yale College and an MFA in Playwriting under Tarell Alvin McCraney from fka Yale School of Drama. Their work has been a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. They are a grandchild of the Great Migration; a queer & non-binary abolitionist affected in community by the ‘New Jim Crow;” and of a great lineage of Black women storytellers and living-room archivists; all of which deeply informs, uplifts and amplifies their work as a playwright, community organizer and spacemaker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/785e5140-9d30-4e58-b019-c15d06e33186/abigail+jean-baptiste+%28all+pronouns%29.jpeg TIA PRAY A SOUND - abigail jean-baptiste (all pronouns) Co-director abigail jean-baptiste (all pronouns) is a theater maker, director, and writer born & based in New York City with roots in Haiti and the American South. guided by questions around blackness and feminization and kinship, their work uses fragmented language, repeatable gestures, and found objects in a search to build nonsensical ways of being and to reimagine understandings of the past. currently: I Am Soul Directing Residency at National Black Theater, The Audrey Residency at New Georges and BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. previously: Project Number One Artist at Soho Repertory Theater, Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Resident Lead Artist at Mercury Store. abigailjeanbaptiste.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4dfb875c-7035-4d4a-a6f5-47b329fd6265/Jaz+Hall+%28they_them%29.jpg TIA PRAY A SOUND - Jaz Hall (they/them) Co-director Jaz Hall (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, interdisciplinary director, performer, producing curator, casting associate, & advocate. Jaz believes in community, new work development, & media with historically marginalized groups at the forefront. Works for & by these communities are the forward momentum of necessary change. Counting DC as their theatre hometown, Jaz debuted their QTBIPOC artist platform, WOMB, the creation space (hiatus) at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where they have served as Assistant Director, Performer, Independent Producer Curator, & Artistic Producing Associate under Nataki Garrett. Jaz’ work as producing curator was most recently seen on the OSF Green Show stage, IT IZ... WHAT IT IZ: A MizCast Variety Show. In 2023, Jaz returned to OSF as assistant director of ROMEO AND JULIET and producer on the Green Show season. OSF; FAIR Assistant Director (2019). Arena Stage; Allen Lee Hughes Fellow, Casting (2014-2015). Howard University; BFA, Musical Theatre. IG: @thejazhall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f161e793-6997-4a13-b8a0-9f5f8493cecf/Jay+De%CC%81lise+%28they_them%29.jpeg TIA PRAY A SOUND - Jay Délise (they/them) Clowning Consultant Jay Délise (they/them) (official jester of Sugar Hill) is a writer, theater artist, eater of grapes, and producer based in Harlem, New York. They have performed at The United Nations, The Schomburg Center, and The Pulitzer Center. Their work has been highlighted around the world and in publications including Afropunk, Vagabond City, Glass Poetry Press, and Huffington Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d4382ba9-5452-48f9-82c8-df81505d3694/Shiku+Thuo+%28any+pronouns+said+with+love%29.jpeg TIA PRAY A SOUND - Shiku Thuo (any pronouns said with love) Stage Manager Shiku Thuo (any pronouns said with love) is a stage Manager, actor and director hailing from Southern California, but taking residency in New York. Their most recent works include: The Whitney Album (Soho Rep), ‘Bov Water (Northern Stage) On that Day in Amsterdam ( Primary Stages) Mercury Store Residences. To all the womxn who raised me, thank you for your DIVINE medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/98d9eefc-ca6d-4f20-b74b-9539eb843084/Alicia+Pilgrim+%28she_they%29.jpg TIA PRAY A SOUND - Alicia Pilgrim (she/they) Performer Alicia Pilgrim (she/they) is grateful to be a part of the Breaking the Binary fest. Alicia is always interested in creating conversations where people can feel seen and stretch their own mindset/perspective. After all, this is one of the core reasons we do theatre! Recent credits include: This is How We Come Alive, burnbabyburn, A Thousand and One, and Random Acts of Flyness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/052c5c4b-07e1-4df3-a7ea-a4ba12fc9d8d/Cristina+Pitter+%28they_she%29.jpeg TIA PRAY A SOUND - Cristina Pitter (they/she) Performer Cristina Pitter (they/she) is a queer multi-spirit afro-indigenous artist, abolitionist, and alchemist who wants to burn it all down and plant new seeds in the fertile soil. They also have the best laugh ever. SERIOUSLY. Follow their antics at cristinapitter.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/817bc710-9dd4-436a-95b2-465fc9401780/Maleek+Rae+%28they_them%29.png TIA PRAY A SOUND - Maleek Rae (they/them) Performer Maleek Rae (they/them) is a gender queer multidisciplinary artist hailing from the eastside of Detroit, MI. Maleek is a graduate of the BFA acting conservatory at SUNY Purchase. Their most recent credits include The Best Man:The Final Chapters(Peacock), Random Acts of Flyness(HBO), East New York(CBS), and their recurring role on Law & Order: Organized Crime(NBC). Maleek's work can also be seen on stages throughout NYC, national commercials, video games, and their own original multi media creations. All thanks and praise be to God. Instagram: @iammaleekrae Website: www.malikreed.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/70eb725a-f162-4d6f-92b1-b300cd690bd8/N%27yomi+Allure+Stewart+%28she_her%29.JPG TIA PRAY A SOUND - N'yomi Allure Stewart (she/her) Performer N'yomi Allure Stewart (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. N'yomi is the first black trans woman to graduate from the prestigious University of North Carolina School of the Arts Acting program receiving a B.F.A. and since has worked at the Public Theater (Richard III, A Raisin in the Sun) and other notable theater companies/organizations such as The O’Neil, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, and The Old Globe. https://www.btb-nyc.com/your-maximum-potential daily 0.75 2023-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ac9b51ae-d02d-4e30-a67f-f6cbeb0190a9/travis+tate+%28they_them%29.JPEG YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - travis tate (they/them) Writer travis tate (they/them) is a queer playwright, poet, and performer living in Brooklyn. Their poems have been published in Southern Humanities Review, Vassar Review, The Boiler, among other publications. Their first collection of poetry, Maiden, was published in June 2020 by VA Press. Their first collection of short stories will be published by Stanchion Book Press in early 2024. They were a fellow in the Liberation Theatre Company's Playwriting Residency and currently are in Theatre East's Writers Group. Their plays have been produced by Dorset Theatre Festival, Victory Gardens, Theatre East and Breaking The Binary Festival. They earned their MFA in playwriting and poetry from Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Find out more information at travisltate.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/39a55f80-0cd8-41dc-a8fc-5d89314a6ce9/Dominique+Rider+Headshot.jpg YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - Dominique Rider Director Dominique Rider is a Brooklyn-based director whose work seeks to answer the question: “What is a world unmade by slavery?” while attempting to analyze the layers of anti-blackness that maintain the world we live in. Deploying theatre and performance as tools of Afropessimism, Dominique has developed and staged work with Audible, The New Group, NYTW, Roundabout, The Atlantic, Princeton, Rattlestick, BRIC Arts, Two River, Portland Center Stage, and more. Past fellowships/residencies include TheaterWorks Hartford, NYSAF, BRIC Arts, Roundabout, and NAMT. Currently, Dominique is a resident director at The National Black Theatre and a producer with CLASSIX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/532ec3b8-56d3-4748-9b43-664749152ee0/Dezi+Tibbs+%28they_she%29.jpg YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - Dezi Tibbs (they/she) Dramaturg Dezi Tibbs (they/she) is thrilled to participate in the BTB Festival for the first time. As a dramaturg, Dezi focuses on the ways in which people perform themselves—using psychology and imagination to add further como,Edith and nuance to our stories. They’re inspired by comic books and cartoons and aims to similarly tackle important issues through whimsy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c420841f-824d-472a-8e21-70320b098c49/Rachel+April+%28they_them%29.png YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - Rachel April (they/them) Stage Manager RACHEL DENISE APRIL (They/Them) is a Guyanese-American Stage Manager, who has studied Theatrical Design and Stage Management at the City College of New York. Select Credits include: Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group), soft (MCC) Chicken and Biscuits (Queens Theatre), The Baby Monitor (Different Translation), The Big Green Theater Festival (SuperHero Playhouse) The Hole (Zhailon Levingston), Neptune (Timothy DuWhite), The Genesis Plays (The In[heir]itance Project), Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (MTWorks), and The Fire This Time Festival 2015 (The Kraine Theater). They have worked on projects throughout the United States and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8499ac21-7e14-40cb-b3b1-1a8de8e571d6/b+%28they_them_b%29.jpg YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - b SAHIL b (they/them/b) acts. This is their second BTB Theatre Festival. NY credits: AMERICAN (TELE)VISIONS (NYTW), TOROS (Second Stage), UNPRINCESS NON-BRIDE (MTC), SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Tectonic Theater Project), ADDRESSLESS (Rattlestick Theater), and two seasons at Clubbed Thumb Summerworks. TV: WECRASHED (Apple TV+), LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Showtime), and WITCH MOUNTAIN (Disney+ Pilot). b can be heard playing Azera in the hit podcast BIRDS OF EMPIRE (QCode), Vanessa Garcia in ZERO TOLERANCE (Audible Originals), and as Janessa in LOVE IN GRAVITY (Harley & Co). Training: Juilliard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/96998d38-8a94-4996-8877-2baaf5a83137/Li%CC%81o+Mehiel+%28they_them%29.jpg YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - Lío Mehiel (they/them) DARREN LÍO MEHIEL (they/them) made Sundance Film Festival history this year as the first ever trans actor to receive the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting for their performance in the critically acclaimed feature film Mutt, which made its world premiere at the festival. Lío’s leading role in Mutt also marked their big screen debut which has been critically acclaimed, earning them a feature in The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Pride Issue. Next up, Mehiel will star opposite Residente and Sasha Calle in the independent feature film In The Summers. An NYC Native, Mehiel is a Puerto Rican and Greek non-binary, trans masculine actor, writer, director, and artist, who began their career as competitive salsa dancer and child actor on Broadway. Recently, they have appeared in Netflix’s reboot of Tales of the City and WeCrashed for Apple+ opposite Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9d1769fe-ad8d-4b9f-9e24-dd81a0d8d0ed/Omari+K.+Chancellor.jpg YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - Omari K. Chancellor MAX Omari K. Chancellor can be seen in Peter Farrelly’s film The Greatest Beer Run Ever on Apple+ after a world premiere at TIFF. Omari was seen in the world premieres of Soft by Donja R. Love and I Am a Walrus by MJ Kaufman at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has also appeared in amani for the National Black Theatre Off-Broadway as well as with UCB Los Angeles and Flappers Comedy Club. Chancellor is a 2021 graduate of the NYU Grad acting program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8b2b1967-9891-4416-bdd8-1bf8d6eeea25/Reed+Northrup+%28he_him%29.jpg YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - Reed Northrup (he/him) LUCAS Reed Northrup (he/him) is an actor and writer based in Brooklyn. He is a graduate of Yale Drama's MFA Acting Program class of '22. Reed recently performed at The Guthrie Theater in the title role of THE LITTLE PRINCE and has worked at theaters such as Ars Nova, The Flea, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theatre and more. FILM/TV: Javi in Adult Swim's TEENAGE EUTHANASIA, HBO's HIGH MAINTENANCE, and upcoming features RELAY starring Riz Ahmed and Lily James as well as a lead role in Kevin Smith's THE 4:30 MOVIE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/63e86213-577b-4f04-b101-0595bfb57b80/Vann+Dukes+%28they_them%29.jpg YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL - Vann Dukes (they/them) Stage Directions Reader Vann Dukes (they/them) is a New York based actor, dancer, writer, originally from the St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Currently, they are a resident actor in the Mercury Store Acting Pool, where they have workshopped new theatre and performance art pieces since November 2021. Some of their recent credits include A Long Time Since Yesterday (New Federal Theatre) and A Raisin in the Sun (The Public Theater). vanndukes.com https://www.btb-nyc.com/fight-call daily 0.75 2023-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/608751bc-4250-4fcb-ae84-424eab240017/Sarah+Mantell+%28they_them%29.jpg FIGHT CALL - Sarah Mantell (they/them) Writer Sarah Mantell (they/them) is the recipient of the 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot. Their other plays include Everything That Never Happened, Tiny, and The Good Guys. They have worked with Playwrights Horizons, Boston Court Pasadena, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Artists Repertory Theatre. Sarah has been awarded residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, Wildacres, Hedgebrook, Fresh Ground Pepper, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, as well as a Toulmin grant, an Edgerton Foundation grant, and a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship. MFA Yale School of Drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c1c6e8cd-fec9-40b9-841a-d877f3e9f686/Mei+Ann+Teo+%28they_them%29.jpeg FIGHT CALL - Mei Ann Teo (they/them) Director Mei Ann Teo (they/them) is a queer immigrant from Singapore making theatre & film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, they works internationally, at festivals including Belgium's Festival de Liege. Recent work includes Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong (film and national tour) and the US premiere of Amy Berryman’s Walden at Theatreworks Hartford (Best Production and Director- Connecticut Critics Award). Teo received the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Josephine Abady Award, is the inaugural recipient of the Lily Fan Director Lilly Award, and is an artistic leader at Ping Chong and Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/24c5fd55-d896-4a45-b013-bb7c8eb9ddb7/Screen+Shot+2023-10-21+at+7.24.39+PM.png FIGHT CALL - Alex Might (her) Associate Fight Director Alex Might (her) is an actor and movement director from central Ohio. Credits include POTUS (Broadway), How to Defend Yourself (New York Theater Workshop), RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Wolves (Actors Theatre of Louisville), backstroke boys (Fault Line Theatre), Thelma and Louise and the Time Machine (Breaking the Binary Festival), and Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Keen Company). She has done additional productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, ATL Humana Festival, WP Theater, Primary Stages, Princeton, Columbia, NYU, and King’s Head Theatre in London. www.alexmight.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/895097e9-e4ba-417f-a47c-25a6cd657d8c/Jeremy+Tiang+%28he_they%29.jpeg FIGHT CALL - Jeremy Tiang (he/they) Dramaturg Jeremy Tiang 程异 (he/they) is a playwright, novelist, and translator. His work for the stage includes Salesman之死 (playing at the Connelly Theater till Oct 28!), A Dream of Red Pavilions and The Last Days of Limehouse, as well as translations of plays by Chen Si’an, Wei Yu-Chia and Quah Sy Ren. He is also the author of a novel and a short story collection, and the translator of over thirty books from Chinese. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in Flushing, Queens. www.JeremyTiang.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9ec28a60-d53f-46f3-aaaf-309898ba1925/Mars+Juno+Bartolome+Neri+%28they_them%29.jpg FIGHT CALL - Mars Juno Bartolome Neri (they/them) Stage Manager Mars Juno Bartolome Neri (they/them) is an artist and stage manager dedicated to supporting those who want to tell their personal stories and creating community through social justice oriented art through new plays or devised works. Their passion lies in community care and the joy that can be found through these collaborative storytelling processes. They’re devoted to doing work that brings unheard voices and untold stories to light. Congratulations to everyone for the second BTB Theatre Festival, and here's to many more! Previous collaborators include Leviathan Lab, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Rattlestick Theater, and Signature Theatre DC. www.marsjbneri.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3a80da60-72fb-4141-ab16-2303489f2b37/Roci%CC%81o+Mendez+%28they_she%29.jpeg FIGHT CALL - Rocío Mendez (they/she) Fight Director Rocío Mendez (they/she). Member of Unkle Dave’s Fight-House. Rocio was recently nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and resident Intimacy Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Rocio is also an award-winning actor. Credits include: Broadway: POTUS, AIN’T NO MO, Merrily We Roll Along Off-Broadway / Regional Theater: How To Defend Yourself, On Sugarland (NYTW), The Bandaged Place (Roundabout), The Harder They Come, Merry Wives, Romeo y Julieta (Public Theater), NOIR (The Alley Theater), Vietgone, The Royale (Geva Theater Center), The Wolves (Actors Theater of Louisville), The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, RENT, Twelfth Night, King John, Confederates, It’s Christmas, Carol! (OSF) www.rociomendez.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2f7e7218-7ba6-4137-af75-2f975f641839/Diana+Oh+_Zaza+D_+%28they_them%29.jpeg FIGHT CALL - Diana Oh “Zaza D” (they/them) EMMA Diana Oh “Zaza D” (they/them) is a multi-hyphenate Generative Artist — performer, musician, singer, songwriter, actor, unboxable artist, maker of installations, rituals, performances, gatherings, concerts, documentary film, and parties. Oh describes themselves as an open channel to the art that feels good to their body and is driven by pleasure, mutual care, and keeping things heart-centered. Oh’s work defies easy categorization. The New York Times calls it “messy-beautiful,” “(a) blend of compassion, defiance and practicality” and “a glitter bomb” of “feminist and queer protest,” “with the joyous freedom to be yourself, whatever pronouns you use.” Oh’s {my lingerie play} (NY Time’s Critics Pick, TOW Fellow Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Infinite Love Party (NY Time’s Critics Pick, Bushwick Starr), CLAIRVOYANCE (A.R.T. Artist-in-Residence), Asian People are Not Magicians (Mic.com), OH FAMILY CONCERT (All Arts TV Resident Artist), The Gift Project (All For One at Symphony Space), My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre (written in The Public Theatre’s EWG, Ma-Yi Digital), music, work, and others have been featured on PBS, NPR, Mic, SXSW, Sundance, Huffington Post, People Magazine, Vulture, Upworthy, Vice, The National, MTV, Korean Broadcast Radio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Bushwick Starr, The Public Theatre , A.R.T., The Harvard Arboretum and The White House. Oh is a TOW Fellow, Venturous Capital Fellow, Sundance Institute Fellow, Hellen Merrill Playwright Award Recipient, Steinberg Playwright Award Recipient, Art Equity Persephone Grant Recipient, Williamstown Theatre Festival Artist-in-Residence, and a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ+ Influencer. Oh travels to unexpected places with their work and Shovels @ProfessionalLapDog. @ohyeadiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/51540f79-6f5a-4806-a81d-4b28e976bd2c/Jonny+Beauchamp.jpg FIGHT CALL - Jonny Beauchamp JUST Jonny Beauchamp. Most recently a series regular on the Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene as Ginger Lopez/Jorge, Jonny is known for playing Angelique on the Showtime series Penny Dreadful. Film/TV credits include Ray/Ramona in Roland Emmerich's 2015 film, Stonewall, Tyler Rabinowitz’s See You Soon, Barry Jay’s The Way Out, Henry Joost and Ariel Shulman’s Nerve, Dick Wolf’s Chicago P. D., and the action film SNAG, opposite Ben Milliken and Jaime Camil. Born and raised in New York City, they attribute the bulk of their training to New York's Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS). Jonny is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/172931e5-312f-4e2e-85b7-56c1df354067/Marquise+Vilso%CC%81n.png FIGHT CALL - Marquise Vilsón MICHAEL Marquise Vilsón is a New York Native, by way of the Bronx, actor and activist of trans experience. He recently starred on the CW series TOM SWIFT as Isaac Vega; a trans, pansexual badass who is Tom’s bodyguard and right-hand man. Marquise was first introduced to TV audiences when he guest-starred in the critically acclaimed episode of LAW & ORDER: SVU, titled Service, addressing the issues faced by transgender military service members (GLAAD Award Nomination). Other TV credits include QUANTUM LEAP, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (recurring), BULL, THE BLACKLIST, TALES OF THE CITY and BLINDSPOT (recurring). Film Credits include THE KITCHEN, BEN IS BACK, B-BOY BLUES and the upcoming THE LOST HOLIDAY. Marquise made his New York stage debut Off-Broadway as Beta in MCC Theatre’s CHARM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d3f7d9b5-3fb8-4abd-a8f9-07e150c76f67/Pooya+Mohseni+%28she_her%29.jpg FIGHT CALL - Pooya Mohseni (she/her) MARIE Pooya Mohseni (she/her) is a multi award-winning Iranian American actor, writer, filmmaker and transgender activist. She recently appeared in the world premiere of The Sex Party (Menier Chocolate Factory) in London. Her other stage performances include her Obie win in the Pulitzer and Obie-winning play English (Atlantic Theater Company), Hamlet (Play On Shakespeare Festival), One Woman (United Solo), She,He,Me (National Queer Theater), Our Town (Pride Plays), Galatea (The WP Project), The Good Muslim (EST), White Snake (Baltimore Center Stage), and the Audible production of Chonburi Hotel & The Butterfly Club (Williamstown Theater Festival). Her film and television credits include Law & Order: SVU, Big Dogs, Falling Water, Madam Secretary, Terrifier and See You Then, streaming on all digital platforms. She's part of the advisory council for The Ackerman Institute's Gender & Family Project. She’s represented by Headline Talent Agency and TGTalent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fd254e3c-1ad1-4be5-86e1-3d36668a7171/Sagan+Chen+%28they_he%29.png FIGHT CALL - Sagan Chen (they/he) STAGE MANAGER Sagan Chen (they/he) is an award-winning queer genderfluid chinese-american artist. They center their work on uplifting underrepresented new narratives onstage, onscreen, and on the page, and enjoy reading scripts for various reading committees, including Breaking the Binary! Onscreen: Survival of the Thickest (Netflix/A24), Grand Crew (NBC), High Maintenance (HBO), Girl Talk (dir. Erica Rose). Onstage: WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), Happy Life (The Hearth @ Soho Rep), Two Mile Hollow (Yale), Six Years Old, Stone, and delicacy of a puffin heart (Corkscrew Theater Festival), Exposed Bone (The PIT Loft). You can hear him in the Audible Original The 126 Year Old Artist, and narrating the audiobooks: Ana On the Edge, All The Things We Don’t Talk About, and The Jump. Follow them on Instagram: @sagan.chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/115d3363-ed49-4c5c-984c-1062440da02b/Susannah+Perkins.png FIGHT CALL - Susannah Perkins ANONYMOUS INTERN Since graduating from NYU's BFA program, Susannah Perkins has swiftly become one of the most exciting names in the New York theatre scene. They played a pivotal role in Sarah DeLappe’s critically-revered play, THE WOLVES, directed by Lila Neugebauer, and reprised their role in the remount production at Lincoln Center Theater. Other notable theatre credits include NETWORK on Broadway opposite Bryan Cranston; JUDGMENT DAY (Park Avenue Armory); the title role in THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN BY GRACE B. MATHIAS (Playwrights Realm) and Bruce Norris’s THE LOW ROAD (Public Theater). Susannah can currently be seen on stage in MARY GETS HERS (Playwrights Realm), which has been met with rave reviews. On screen, Susannah was most recently seen in a leading guest star role on Ryan Murphy’s THE POLITICIAN. They starred as the lead role in renowned visual artist Rachel Rose’s short film ENCLOSURE, produced by Animal Kingdom, and played a supporting role in the 2020 SXSW Feature LAPSIS. Additional credits include a guest star appearance in THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/80340068-8001-4814-a4ce-927fe8a4cafc/Andres+Martinez+%28any+pronouns+with+respect%29.jpg FIGHT CALL - Andres Martinez (any pronouns with respect) Stage Directions Reader Andres Martinez (any pronouns with respect) is an interdisciplinary Latine Queer Artist from Philly. Andres received a BA in Theatre from King's College, and attended the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. They are a recipient of the Lin Manuel Miranda Family Fellowship. A program that has supported over 100 social justice-oriented, emerging artists and arts administrators from underrepresented communities in various artistic mediums including, but not limited to, theatre, dance, tv / film, visual arts, and music. For more visit andresmartinez.org. Donate to the Next Generation Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to distributing resources to Black and Brown Trans folks in need. Learn more at wearetng.org https://www.btb-nyc.com/bliss daily 0.75 2023-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8fc18fa8-efce-4a12-8926-4305690cf530/L+Morgan+Lee+%28she_her%29.jpg BLISS - L Morgan Lee (she/her) Co-conceiver, Director, and Writer L Morgan Lee (she/her) is a Tony Award® nominated actress and storyteller known for her history-making turn in A Strange Loop on Broadway - a performance which also garnered her an Antonyo Award and a Drama League Distinguished Performance nomination. In London, she was seen playing artist Lili Elbe in a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl (currently in development). Other work includes well over a decade of Off-Broadway, Regional, International/National tours and concerts with artists from Paul McCartney to Our Lady J. In the studio, L Morgan was the voice of Ornate Williams in the Sugar Maple Series w. Fred Savage (Osiris Media) and can be found on Joe Iconis' album (Ghostlight Records), The Rainbow Lullaby Album (Broadway Records), and more. For more: @lmorganlee | lmorganlee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e8640767-17b5-4dd7-9626-423d1a0f64ec/George+Strus+%28they_them%29.jpeg BLISS - George Strus (they/them) Co-conceiver and Dramaturg George Strus (they/them) is a trans non-binary Latiné artist based on the unceded ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape people (colloquially known as New York). They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre: a new work development and community building hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ theatermakers. In addition to their role as Founding Artistic Director of Breaking the Binary Theatre and their freelance producorial and dramaturgical work, they also currently serve as Artistic Producer at The Sol Project, Seasonal Producing Manager at The Public Theater, Producers Cohort Program Facilitator at The Tank, and Theatre Scout at Curate Management. Previously, they held positions at Second Stage Theater, A3 Artists Agency, Manhattan Theatre Club, Pride Plays at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Playbill, Stacey Mindich Productions, Alchemation, Telsey + Company Casting, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. @GeorgeStrus / www.georgestrus.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0cd51900-a32b-4da2-ab5f-33a3bed15af6/Dante+Green+%28they_he_she%29.JPG BLISS - Dante Green (they/he/she) Writer Dante Green (they/he/she) is a Black, Queer, multi-hyphenate artist. They are an alumnus of Headlong Performance Institute and University of the Arts with a BFA in Directing, Playwriting, and Production. Dante is the Founding Artistic Director of the Makers' Ensemble, a Network of Ensemble Theaters member, a former Wesleyan Breaking New Ground Fellow, and the inaugural Emerging Artist Initiative Fellow at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. Dante's work has been produced with Ars Nova, Pig Iron Theater Company, The Tank, and others. Dante has also been a Visiting Artist at Wesleyan University, Point Park, NYU, and Sheridan College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/df250442-e5b6-4e4d-b46e-9ca02fc24ce2/Dena+Igusti.jpg BLISS - Dena Igusti Writer Dena Igusti is an Indonesian Muslim writer born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020), which has been listed as a 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick and a Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021, and I NEED THIS TO NOT SWALLOW ME ALIVE (Gingerbug Press, 2021). They are the co-playwright of the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united states through theater, created with the support of New Georges and made possible by the Clubbed Thumb Constitution Commission, funded by Heidi Schreck and the producers of What The Constitution Means to Me, and winner of A is For. Their work has been produced and performed at LA Times, The Brooklyn Museum, The Apollo Theater, Prelude Festival (Cut Woman, 2020), Center At West Park (CON DOUGH, 2021), The Tank (First Sight 2021 at LimeFest), and several other venues internationally. They have received commissions from The Miranda Family Fund (2023), Motor Theater Company (2023), New Ohio Theatre (Now In Process 2022), Center at West Park (2021), Converse, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0401317a-834a-4604-a0cb-686104b2baf5/Esperanza+Rosales+Balca%CC%81rcel.JPG BLISS - Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel Writer Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel (she/they) is a trans Guatemalan artist, born in Guatemala City and raised in Norwalk, CT. Esperanza’s plays have been supported by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Roundabout Theatre, Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Stanford Department of Theater and Performance Studies, and the O’Neill Theater Center. Esperanza is the recipient of the Princeton Ward Prize for Fiction, the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Scholarship, the Paul Greene Award from the National Theatre Conference, and the Kennedy Center's Paula Vogel Playwriting Award (Finalist) and Latinx Playwriting Award. They are currently a Teaching Fellow for the Public Theater, and the Drama Teacher at Brooklyn Prospect High School. BA: Princeton, MFA: Yale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0276cda4-6c16-4465-82c6-a116e1c2c14b/Haruna+Lee+%28they_them%29.jpg BLISS - Haruna Lee (they/them) Writer Haruna Lee (they/them) is a Taiwanese/Japanese/American theater maker, screenwriter, educator and community steward. Plays include War Lesbian, Memory Retrograde, plural (love) and Suicide Forest for which they received an Obie Award for Playwriting and Conception and was on the Kilroys List. Lee has received the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Ollie New Play Award, FCA Grants to Artists Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Map Fund Grant, and is a member of New Dramatists. Their writing has been published by 53rd State Press, Theater Magazine, Table Work Press, Almanac, and they've taught playwriting at Brooklyn College, Stanford, NYU, Pace, and York College. harunalee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/207cc319-b02b-4fb7-84c1-5433bf202fae/1K9A2673-Modifier.jpg BLISS - Kit Yan (they/she/he) Writer Kit Yan (they/she/he) is a Yellow American New York based artist, born in China, and raised in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Kit is a 2023 Helen Merrill Award recipient, 2022 Harold Adamson Lyric Award winner, 2021 Jonathan Larson Grant and Kleban Prize recipient for Libretto, a 2021 Sundance IDP Fellow and grantee, a 2019 Vivace Award recipient for big ideas in musical theater, a former Musical Theater Factory Makers Fellow, Playwright’s Center fellow, Company One/Pao Arts Fellow, Lincoln Center Writer in residence, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Their films have been shown at OUTfest, CAAMfest, The LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and The Asian American International Film Festival among many others. They have worked for Disney, Milk and Cookies, and others in tv and film. Kit’s works include INTERSTATE, which won "Best Lyrics" at the 2018 New York Musical Theater Festival, QUEER HEARTACHE which won 5 awards at the Chicago and SF Fringe Festivals, and MISS STEP which received a first draft commission from 5th Avenue theater. Kit’s work has been supported by Playwrights Horizons, MCC, OSF, Keen Company, and San Diego Repertory Theater. Their work has been produced by the American Repertory Theater, the Smithsonian, NAMT, Musical Theater Factory, the New York Musical Festival, Mixed Blood, and Diversionary Theater. @kityanpoet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/329a6c8d-b6f2-4757-805e-7888950c8def/Nazareth+Hassan.JPEG BLISS - Nazareth Hassan Writer Nazareth Hassan is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, writing, music, video, and photography. Recent performance works include Untitled (1-5) at The Shed (text published by 3 Hole Press), VANTABLACK at Theatretreffen Stuckemarkt in Berlin, #2112 at Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, and Memory A at Museo Universitario del Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. Their first collection of poetry and photography Slow Mania will be published in 2025 by Futurepoem. They have released 4 singles, available on all platforms. They were the 2022 resident dramaturg at the Royal Court Theatre in London. They are a 2023-25 Jerome Hill artist fellow and a current resident of the Vineyard Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/249c2b62-6e73-4dae-ac56-226447b76592/Noax+%28they_them%29+%281%29.jpg BLISS - Noax (they/them) Writer Noax (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Manhattan. They have worked professionally in the entertainment industry for several years as an actor, singer, writer, and advocate in NYC. They seek to foster community amongst the various ecosystems they inhabit and discover transformative ways in which we can educate artists that are rooted in equity, self-empowerment, and community building. Organizations to consider donating to: Breaking the Binary, Black Trans Liberation, For the Gworls, Black Trans Femmes in the Arts, and The Marsha P. Johnson Institute. www.noax.me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e5df6aa2-62fe-4718-907a-c95f040a9878/Preston+Max+Allen+%28he_him%29.jpeg BLISS - Preston Max Allen (he/him) Writer Preston Max Allen (he/him) is a playwright, composer, and lyricist whose work has been featured at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Lincoln Center, Signature Theatre, and more. Preston conceived and wrote the 2019 Off-Broadway musical WE ARE THE TIGERS (album streaming); AGENT 355 (dramaturgy/co-book Jessica Kahkoska); and THE RAGE: CARRIE 2, AN UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY (Jeff Nominee, Best New Musical). Plays: MODERN GENTLEMAN (2022 NYSAF summer workshop); CAROLINE (2021 Ars Nova Out Loud); and STORYTIME. Preston is a member of the Writers Guild of America East, Ars Nova Play Group (2019-21), and alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d93e137d-46e6-488b-9b29-be255cc8a250/R.+Re%CC%81al+Vargas+Alanis+%28they%2B_Pure%CC%81pecha_Tlahualil%29.jpg BLISS - R. Réal Vargas Alanis (they+/Purépecha/Tlahualil) Writer R. Réal Vargas Alanis (they+/Purépecha/Tlahualil) is a renowned indigiqueer artist specializing in New Work Development. Réal is a Casting Director with Casting Collective, guest artist at Princeton University, award-winning director, Artistic Director of IN THE MARGIN, and was named to be among “the best latinx comedic talent in the country” by the Latinx Theatre Commons. They also serve as Associate Director for the tour of "Between Two Knees" by the 1491’s (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theater Center, Seattle Rep, and Perelman Center for the Arts). www.realvalanis.com | iG: @realvalanis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/83fbd7dc-ad56-4fa7-b132-c80125d691f1/Rob+Madge+%28they_them%29.jpg BLISS - Rob Madge (they/them) Writer Rob Madge (they/them) is a theatre maker, writer and actor. They began working professionally in theatre at the age of 9, having spent the majority of their childhood forcing their family to help them put on shows in the living room, most of which are now documented on Rob’s social media channels. Rob is best known for their solo show My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) which was nominated for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards. The show opened at The Turbine Theatre, where it won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production, before sold out runs at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Garrick and Ambassadors Theatre in the West End. They have also had roles in Les Miserables, Oliver!, Matilda, Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and, most recently, the London Palladium pantomimes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3bddff94-a4bd-4fc2-b1f4-b037badc80b6/Shualee+Cook+%28she_her%29.JPG BLISS - Shualee Cook (she/her) Writer Shualee Cook (she/her) writes plays as a way of asking questions and figuring out possible answers within a community. She is the recipient of 2021 Chesly/Bumbalo Award, The 2020 RAC Artist Fellowship, and the 2019 Parity Commission. She has been a resident playwright in the Confluence Regional Writers Project, Stage Left Theatre, and Tesseract Theatre. Her work has been developed by About Face Theatre, Breaking the Binary Theatre, The New Coordinates, Mustard Seed Theatre, The Road Theatre, Idle Muse Athena Festival, and the St.Louis Shakespeare Festival, among others. Plays include And Certain Women, Cercle Hermaphroditos, Earworm, and An Invitation Out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/32134e5a-ea81-457e-9923-1cdefce2ee48/Indya+Moore+%28she_her%29.png BLISS - Indya Moore (she/her) Performer Born and raised in the Bronx, Indya Moore (she/her) is a celebrated actor, model, and activist who has appeared on the cover of such publications as Vogue, V Magazine, and PORTER, and has collaborated with such designers as Tommy Hilfiger, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent, and Calvin Klein. They are currently the face of YSL Cosmetics. From 2018 to 2021, Indya starred in the Emmy Award-winning FX series POSE, for which they received critical acclaim for their role as “Angel.” They will next be seen in Warner Bros.’ AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM, which is set to be released in December. In 2019, Indya was named to TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People list and made history as the first trans person to be on the cover of ELLE. They also appeared on The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen list, in addition to Forbes’ 30 Under 30. Throughout the pandemic, Indya immersed themself in charitable work, raising and redistributing money for marginalized communities, and created a campaign entitled Trans Santa to support in-need trans youth around the holiday season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/44d0cc83-84b8-4a4f-a051-8bb7f7affa71/Kyr+Siegel+%28he_him%29.jpg BLISS - Kyr Siegel (he/him) Performer Kyr Siegel (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based actor, dancer, and playwright. He holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College with a concentration in Performing Arts, Chemistry, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is an alum of the National Theater Institute (Playwriting Theatermakers ’22 and Acting Track '20). His favorite acting credits include productions of Sweeney Todd, Hamlet, WalkOver, and The Miracle Worker. He has had the privilege of working with Jujamcyn Theaters, The Wild Project, Kraine Theater, as well as other theaters throughout NYC both as an actor and a theatrical electrician. He is eternally grateful to have a hand in bringing queer stories to life! www.kyrsiegel.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/cb908194-6d9a-4c31-84e0-56f37f88865c/River+Gallo+%28they_them%29.jpeg BLISS - River Gallo (they/them) Performer Born and raised in New Jersey, River Gallo (they/them) is a filmmaker, actor, writer and intersex activist. River holds a BFA in Acting from NYU and an MFA in Film & TV Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Their short film PONYBOI was executive produced by Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. A feature-length adaptation of PONYBOI is currently in post-production, adn set to premiere in 2024. River wrote the screenplay and stars in the film alongside Dylan O’Brien, Murray Bartlett, Indya Moore, and Victoria Pedretti. They were also the subject of the critically-acclaimed feature documentary EVERY BODY directed by Academy-award nominated director Julie Cohen. Prior to their feature debut, River starred in multiple short films, a stage production of KING LEAR at the Annenberg Theater in Los Angeles, as well as an episode of the Hulu series LOVE, VICTOR. In the commercial space, River directed advertising spots for Facebook, and starred in a national ad campaign for Indeed. For their work in the arts and on social justice issues, River has been featured in Hunger Magazine, OUT Magazine, and won a GLAAD Rising Star Media Award. River was named one of the 10 LGBTQIA+ Film and TV Creators on the Rise in 2023 by Indiewire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a86a94c7-d3cb-41f8-8257-592a82341f1e/Sara+Rami%CC%81rez+%28they_them%29.jpg BLISS - Sara Ramírez (they/them) Performer 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9716c46f-6e41-42d1-bdb8-163025a092c9/Te%CC%A3mi%CC%81dayo%CC%A3+Amay+%28they_he%29.png BLISS - Temidayo Amay (they/he) Performer Tẹmídayọ Amay (they/he) is a Black Trans Non-Binary writer, producer, actor, and queer activist. OFF-BROADWAY: Classic Stage Company: black odyssey; MCC Theater: On Love; Classical Theatre of Harlem: Foriwa; The Public Theatre; Ars Nova; Clubbed Thumb. REGIONAL: Round House Theatre: School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play (Helen Hayes Award: winner); Signature Theatre: The Color Purple; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Describe the Night; Arena Stage; The Kennedy Center; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Longacre Lea: The Interstellar Ghost Hour (Helen Hayes Award: nominated). DIRECTING: The Athena Project: The Newlywed Game. WRITING: BTB: POOL. AFFILIATES: Musical Theatre Factory; TPOC; TEMPO, PILOT, RISE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/5c63238a-14b7-46af-8ea4-2a547fc546f6/Screen+Shot+2023-10-21+at+8.11.48+PM.png BLISS - Kathel Griffin (they/them/he/him) Stage Directions Reader Kathel ('kuh-hail' or Kat) Griffin (they/them/he/him) is a Trans Masculine Brooklyn based AEA Actor Represented by Clear Talent Group. He asks you to get engaged with fighting Anti-Trans Legislation by utilizing the resources found at www.trans-week.com & by donating to organizations like @TLDF , @southernequality , & ACLU state chapters like @ACLUFL. Follow @ChaseStrangio for more. Off-Broadway: 'PLAY ON!’ (Classic Stage Company), 'Millennials are Killing Musicals' (Theatre 71) Select Regional/Workshop/Festival: ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (Geva Theatre Center) 'King Lear', 'A Christmas Carol' (Great Lakes Theatre) 'Mary Poppins' (Beck Center for the Arts) 'The Wild Party' (BAR New Haven) ‘Here and Their’, ‘Miss Step’ (Open Jar/The 5th Avenue Theatre) 'Medusa' (Ripley Grier Studios) WonderBoy (NAMT). @KathelGriffin https://www.btb-nyc.com/bliss-auditions daily 0.75 2023-09-12 https://www.btb-nyc.com/land-acknowledgement daily 0.75 2023-10-21 https://www.btb-nyc.com/heard daily 0.75 2024-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ea400836-12ec-4a78-986c-557fbe71a505/HEARD.+CAST.png HEARD - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/241c3c27-1c0f-4b2d-b33e-144399ff57e1/FLOWER6%28PRINT%29.jpg HEARD - Flower Estefana Rios (she/they) Flower Estefana Rios (she/her) is a Trans and Chicana performer and writer based in Brooklyn, NY! Originally from Laredo, Texas, she arrived in NY ten years ago to pursue a BA in English with a focus in Dramatic Writing from Pace University. Previous theater training include LAByrinth's Intensive Ensemble, INTAR’s Unit 52, and Breaking the Binary’s Musical Theater Intensive. Some of Flower’s writing has been developed at The Playground Experiment and The Outrage Residency via the NACL . Flower strives to tell stories from the many different intersections of her life! Follow her on the internet at @mxflowertortilla on insta or her website flowerestefanarios.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ee81e682-2914-4ade-b12a-4d1754fc368c/Grayson+James_Headshot.jpg HEARD - Grayson James (he/him) Grayson James (he/him) is honored and beyond excited to be on this stage with these incredible people. Off-Broadway: The Lesbian Play. Other select credits: Head Over Heels & HIR (Marymount Manhattan College). Many thanks to L Morgan and George for having faith in me, to Joe, Colton and Grey for their endless inspiration, and to my mom for signing me up for my first musical in 2006. Instagram: @graysonjmes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f522ee83-5594-4360-9d80-83ab94ef3496/Luz+Ballaster.jpeg HEARD - Luz Ballestér (they/he) Luz Ballaster (they/he) is a Fat, Trans, Latine artist who is most passionate about queer theatre. Since moving to NYC last year, they have worked with organizations such as Latine MT Lab, Broadway Bods, Breaking The Binary and Prospect Theatre Co. He is beyond thrilled to be working on this project and hopes to be a visible example of joy and prosperity for other folks like him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3a9a231c-3e13-412e-89f2-262832e9dcf1/Screen+Shot+2024-01-29+at+9.58.17+PM.png HEARD - Sam Hamashima (they/them) Sam Hamashima (they, he, she) is a genderqueer artist based in New York City. Described as "serious whimsy" in the Washington Post, Hamashima creates with an emphasis on spectacle, surprise, and design. Their work has been presented and/or developed by The Kennedy Center, Stanford University, and Ars Nova. They're thrilled to be re-introducing themselves as their authentic self. (Though it is a little spooky too!) @samhamashima | samhamashima.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a20a0833-b966-4742-b899-a5856f1a1777/Spencer+R+Petro.JPG HEARD - Spencer Petro (they/them) Spencer R Petro (they/them) is a New York City based actor and writer with a goal to spread queer joy of all kinds through art and performance. They are a South Jersey Girl born and raised and a lover of all things pork roll and Amy Winehouse. Spencer is thrilled to be performing alongside so many fellow stunning TNB2S+ community members in what is sure to be a night of immense joy and immense talent. Big thanks always to my family, chosen and otherwise. Leading life with love and light. @Spencerrpetro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f90376e5-4ba3-455f-a89c-58d76c0b3052/Vi+Dang.jpg HEARD - Vi Dang (they/she) Vi Dang (they/she) is a performer, musician, and creative based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Denver, they graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a B.A. in Musical Theatre and a Minor in Music. They are the first trans artist to perform in Denver Center of the Performing Arts' longstanding production of A Christmas Carol. She is also a part of the editorial team at Playbill and her graphic work, photography, and writing has been published in Playbill magazine, at the Tony Awards, and internationally in the Scotsman. As a queer first generation American, Vi is proud of her Vietnamese heritage and strives to spread Asian/BIPOC representation in the theatre/entertainment industry, as well as create art that elevates trans & non-binary voices. https://www.btb-nyc.com/cloud-nine-zine daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://www.btb-nyc.com/btb-across-america daily 0.75 2024-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/be2e4a24-92ca-4a9a-8588-3169fc288ce1/Screen+Shot+2024-03-28+at+8.37.09+AM.png BTB ACROSS AMERICA - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/68c24905-454a-48bc-91ab-6ad883c15808/WOOLLY_FULL_CMYK.png BTB ACROSS AMERICA - May 2024 *Inaugural Partner* Washington, D.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f8c2cba4-47f6-437c-bc8c-2bbe890e0506/largeBlack.png BTB ACROSS AMERICA - July 2024 *Inaugural Partner* Chicago, IL https://www.btb-nyc.com/2024 daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/59483636-a097-4c69-8fd3-8495ddb7b870/413463613_2018431921874649_5444131788177954008_n.jpg 2024 - HEARD: A Community Cabaret On Wednesday, January 31, 2024, we reunited the inaugural BTB Summer Intensive participants to present HEARD.: A Community Cabaret at The Green Room 42, raising over $500 for Trans Lifeline. featuring Flower Estefana Rios (she/they), Grayson James (he/him), Luz Ballestér (they/he), Sam Hamashima (they/them), Spencer Petro (they/them), and Vi Dang (they/she) Music Director: James Rushin (he/she) Guitarist: Will Shishmanian (he/him) Percussionist: Caroline Moore (they/she) Artistic Consultant: L Morgan Lee (she/her) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ecf70ca0-39f5-401c-bf41-63b7966c637a/428319860_1130978617899067_5467179299143301829_n.jpg 2024 - Playwrights Horizons Residency In February 2024, our friends at Playwrights Horizons hosted a BTB Mini Residency in their rehearsal space, allowing us to develop four pieces by BTB artists via our New Works Program! I AM THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BIRD by Else Went Directed by Emma Rosa Went Dramaturgy by Harrison Densmore featuring Esco Jouléy, Felix Teich, Juan Arturo, Layla Khoshnoudi, Liat Graf, and T Mitsock BOIDS by reid tang ~A BTB commission~ Dramaturgy by Nazareth Hassan featuring Futaba, Kyr Siegel, Marquise Vilson, Pauli Pontrelli, Sagan Chen, and Susannah Perkins ‍ MUTHA LOAD by ayla xuân chi sullivan Dramaturgy by Dezi Tibbs featuring L Morgan Lee and Sandra Caldwell RACIAL BONUS by Dominique Rider ~A BTB commission~ Dramaturgy by Zach Ezer featuring Dom Martello, Futaba, JJ Maley, Susannah Perkins, T Mitsock, Temídayo Amay, and Vann Dukes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819268199-VHT699G8GJ0ZJZ6VHA3T/434017765_1597892641023586_6321290605232067232_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819268199-XF2LAVBAJ85DYT3Y5Q83/434015467_938304207568129_5550548633607600119_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819268876-RMH394HB61693ALZ90IR/434021812_456699046693286_2504640010148198685_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819269037-B29Z8CCWLUZPWZEEXECE/434024940_3752327145089933_1034122814916031248_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819269499-2VAV67DUCO64UJGC8MGH/434028177_2451747605018249_2119573423843443384_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819269966-MQHX7Z9HDI57OGMVR9ZB/434029072_256790260838209_1158252521587080977_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819270160-I9YMAX1WMY3FGJHTAQLU/434082463_389444943842680_9210885814926164138_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819270561-NDCTD3QQOK9C953EHAZB/434089452_943734420437036_5789992750718845168_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819270764-DWBRY20QJI59MPCWZ1MH/434097407_997359042392729_7382156548116744334_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1711819271212-GQ0Z8ZATCXMGP2BYKIHD/434097929_868997101581030_7212367874610430927_n.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f91cfeb0-a985-49f9-b70c-4e6dd9681c53/434458599_2202615746736227_5044305929572357197_n.jpg 2024 - BTB Across America Announcement On Thursday, March 28, 2024, we announced our newest program: BTB Across America, supporting transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) theatermakers outside of New York City. In this new program, we will travel to different areas within the United States, partner with a regional theatre company, and co-produce a one-week workshop of a new play written by a TNB2S+ artist local to that area that our regional partner has yet to work with. Our in inaugural year, we will be partnering with DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in May and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre in July. BTB Across America is generously supported by Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman. To learn more about BTB Across America, click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ed04e067-8dc1-445c-b28e-582d4968d11e/Screen+Shot+2024-03-30+at+1.27.18+PM.png 2024 - 2024 Cloud Nine Zine On Sunday, March 31, 2024, as exclusively announced in Playbill and in celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility, we launched our (free!) 2024 Cloud Nine Zine, amplifying the work of over 35 BTB artists. CLOUD NINE is defined by Merriam-Webster as "a feeling of well-being or elation." Designed by BTB artist Vi Dang (they/she), BTB's 2024 Cloud Nine Zine includes: + Ten new commissioned works by BTB artists Anonymous, b (they/them), Dena Igusti (they/them), Diana Oh "Zaza D" (they/them), Else Went (she/herself), Ianne Fields Stewart (they/she), Jay Délise (they/them), Rad Pereira (they/them), Spencer James Weidie (they/them), and Will Shishmanian (he/him). + Our inaugural Instagram commissions from BTB's 2023 Cloud Nine commission campaign. + BTB Spotlights, highlighting the existing work or upcoming engagements of over 15 BTB artists. + A special note from BTB’s Founding Artistic Director, George Strus (they/them). To view the 2024 Cloud Nine Zine, for free, click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/69f693b5-30cc-4dcc-b8d3-447b6ac01f6d/Snapinsta.app_437111189_828823325738603_7073652405898127156_n_1080.jpg 2024 - BTB REDEFINES THE CLASSICS In partnership with Signature Theatre’s SigSpace program, we curated an event in honor of their production of Sarah Ruhl’s ORLANDO–directed by BTB Core Community member Will Davis and featuring BTB artists Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel, Kasson Marroquin, Kedian Keohan, Nat Kelley DiMario, Rad Pereira, and TL Thompson–on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Inspired by ORLANDO’S fantastical trip through space, time, and gender, BTB REDEFINES THE CLASSICS showcases TNB2S+ artists singing and performing their dream roles from the classic theater canon. Featuring Alex Lugo (they/them), Garnet Williams (she/they), Heath Saunders (they/them), James Rose (they/she), Sis Thee Doll, Tomás Matos (they/she) with music direction by James Rushin (he/she). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a41a6ddd-d519-4b71-b4f6-ebf23ce031ea/Snapinsta.app_442461595_3572934093017245_3541773571617181683_n_1080.jpg 2024 - THE GREAT IMPRESARIO BORIS LERMONTOV WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO DINNER by Tristan B Willis (they/them) From Monday, May 6 - Friday, May 10, we set up shop at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington DC to launch our new BTB Across America program. THE GREAT IMPRESARIO BORIS LERMONTOV WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO DINNER by Tristan B. Willis’ (they/them) ️ Directed by Lyam B Gabel (they/he) Featuring Deema Turkomani (they/them) and Ezra Tozian (they/them) Movement Consultant: Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi (she/her) Stage Manager: Jazzy Davis (they/she) Dramaturg: Ynika Yuag (they/them) Stage Directions Reader: Daniel Brody (he/him) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1717416870492-D7O6OB83CBPHT71IYMIU/Snapinsta.app_442467814_480428237883150_1571935320659657049_n_1080.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1717416869166-T3ZCUUM183HNP0SVUWHW/Snapinsta.app_436175951_924343412722895_3724209854564615525_n_1080.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1717416869166-V3K5GCTG7EP1DVKHLQ55/Snapinsta.app_442199877_739976685006340_1829807828370225801_n_1080.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1717416869833-OHRIENWHKEKMH0COVUGQ/Snapinsta.app_442459840_1141101453594403_3703767192289323442_n_1080.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1717416870662-B6TZIQK47GDFU3U7SAZP/Snapinsta.app_442469418_403669115972334_5192608036620831965_n_1080.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1717416869768-E1MI5C3RP3MQKDTQC2SI/Snapinsta.app_442445585_1116571819595632_7758897375527208439_n_1080.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/86a5370b-3ad5-4402-b22e-0352f0a1df36/Snapinsta.app_443888627_442997278655830_7397667861094552548_n_1080.jpg 2024 On Wednesday, May 15, 2024, it was announced that Breaking the Binary Theatre will be partnering with Playwrights Horizons in the fall of 2024 to produce the world premiere of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT, by BTB artist Sarah Mantell and directed by BTB artist Sivan Battat on their Mainstage. As the oceans rise, a band of queer warehouse workers travel from job to job, running from the encroaching coastline. An unlikely love story, and a startling new work of speculative fiction, IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT is a quietly revolutionary tale of queer aging, chosen family, and the search for home in a volatile world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/53c598e6-5ea6-444f-a9c8-850439ad4a9b/Snapinsta.app_444638184_469424935531066_2597779052801420598_n_1080.jpg 2024 On Saturday, May 18, 2024, we took several members of the BTB community on a field trip to Connecticut to see Goodspeed Musicals’ world premiere production of A COMPLICATED WOMAN, with a book by BTB artist Ianne Fields Stewart and featuring BTB artists Arewà Basit and L Morgan Lee alongside TNB2S+ artists Nora Brigid Monahan, Siena Rafter, and Zachary A. Myers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fe6b452c-8516-4ce3-8e93-435b4dcbf522/446099176_1108753133516845_2215641495940087573_n.jpg 2024 - SOLDIERGIRLS by Emil Weinstein and Emily Johnson-Erday In June, we launched our BTB New Musicals Program with a one-night presentation of Emil Weinstein and Emily Johnson-Erday’s SOLDIERGIRLS on Thursday, June 6, 2024. SOLDIERGIRLS A new musical with book & lyrics by Emil Weinstein and music by Emily Johnson-Erday Directed by Miranda Haymon starring Murphy Taylor Smith (she/her) and Rad Pereira (they/them) Musicians: Nina Ross (they/them) and Storm Thomas (he/him) Stage Directions Reader: Carmen LoBue (they/them) Music Director, Arranger, and Orchestrator: George Luton (they/he) Stage Manager: Rachel A. Zucker (they/them) Dramaturg: Ryan Adelsheim (they/them) Copyist: Sophia Huf (they/them) A1: Stephanie Carlin (she/they) Lighting and Projection Designer: Zack Lobel (he/him) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8b514ed8-2eec-428f-9ed1-032c0267e012/448026760_369903218998059_1427683372732644301_n.jpg 2024 In June and July, Breaking the Binary Theatre hosted our second-annual Summer Intensive for emerging TNB2S+ musical theater performers led once again by L Morgan Lee (she/her). Supported by accompanist James Rushin (he/she), our dazzling participants (chosen out of numerous TNB2S+ performers who submitted via an open call) were: ✨ Avery Nusbaum (she/her) ✨ Blanca Del Loco (she/they) ✨ Deema Turkomani (they/them) ✨ Ezra Noel (they/them) ✨ Liam Collins (they/them) ✨ Max Raymond (he/him) ✨ Micki Hardenberg (they/them) ✨ Nolan Quintanilla (they/she/he) The group gathered for four sessions to develop a more personal connection to their repertoire, helping gain confidence in audition materials, forge new industry connections, and hone in on their craft and artistry. The program was free for the eight participants, who also received travel reimbursements to ensure they got home safely after the sessions ended at 9pm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0119749a-1d3f-42b8-9ffd-93f23c3780bb/Snapinsta.app_449431234_472333485443724_4928198145173049750_n_1080.jpg 2024 On June 29, 2024, BLISS: A COLLECTION OF COMMISSIONED SCENES AND MONOLOGUES BY TNB2S+ ARTISTS FOR TNB2S+ ARTISTS, the culminating project of the second annual Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival in 2023, became available to purchase and license via Broadway Licensing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/99148108-4875-4a29-a455-54e782406946/Snapinsta.app_453242304_844189420622506_8381175695199225603_n_1080.jpg 2024 - THE HOUSE OF AUDACITY by Ariel Zetina (she/her) From Monday, July 22 - Friday, July 26, we set up shop at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago for the second workshop via our BTB Across America program. THE HOUSE OF AUDACITY by Ariel Zetina (she/her) Directed by Catherine Miller (they/them) Stage Managed by Lauren Peters (she/her) Performed by Alex Grelle (he/him), Angelíca Grace (she/her), Cae Monāe Vagina, Dutchesz Gemini (she/her), Jojo Brown (she/her), Mariela De La Rua (she/her), Mia Arevalo (she/her), Másha Potato (they/she), & Xitlali Celesté (she/her) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c7de038e-59ef-45a3-837e-04d6cc5b8cc6/Snapinsta.app_450381147_780372773965998_1014454179905838488_n_1080+%281%29.jpg 2024 - Cecilia Gentili’s RED INK From July 30 - August 18, 2024, Breaking the Binary Theatre produced a three-week run of the late Cecilia Gentili’s RED INK. 100% of profits made on this run of RED INK were donated to causes close to Gentili’s heart. Over $35,000 was donated to G.L.I.T.S., Destination Tomorrow, and Trans Power in Diversity. CECILIA GENTILI’S RED INK at Rattlestick Theater featuring Jes Tom (they/he) (Tuesday, July 30 - Sunday, Aug. 4) 
 Angelica Ross (she/her) (Tuesday, Aug. 6 - Sunday, Aug. 11) Peppermint (she/her) (Tuesday, Aug. 13 - Sunday, Aug. 18) Directed by Nic Cory Costume Design by Gogo Graham Lighting Design by Adam Honoré Projection Design by Sasha Velour Original Score by Andrew Yee Presented by Nic Cory, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Sara Ramirez, Ianne Fields Stewart, Rattlestick Theater, and Killer Films Associate Producer: Flower Rios Associate Director/Producer: Joseph Frederick Allen Creative Director, Original Production: Oscar Diaz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8b7df4e4-323d-4a6b-9036-b2bb28b50442/amazon+warehouse.jpg 2024 - IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT by Sarah Mantell From October 10 - November 17, 2024, Breaking the Binary Theatre co-produced the world premiere of BTB artist Sarah Mantell’s IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT, directed by BTB artist Sivan Battat, with Playwrights Horizons. The production featured BTB artists Ianne Fields Stewart, Pooya Mohseni, and Sandra Caldwell. “Startling in its perceptiveness, disheartening in its accuracy and, against all odds, rousingly optimistic in its final moments.” – Juan A. Ramirez, Theatrely “Affirms the power of love to sustain people in even the worst times imaginable.” –Michael Sommers, New York Stage Review “A compelling dystopian and highly theatricalized world inhabited by complex and vivid characters who rarely have stage time. The political critique and elements of the play deftly intertwine to ignite and propel the action and the imagination.” — Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8a4015e6-6319-4055-a0f7-e7cb11769198/Snapinsta.app_460961266_896842632338423_6905870589875419287_n_1080.jpg 2024 On November 18, 2024, Breaking the Binary Theatre co-produced Long Wharf Theatre’s fifth annual Virtual New Play Festival Black Trans Women at the Center with additional co-producer The Theater Offensive and partner theaters About Face, National Queer Theater, and Portland Center Stage. For further details, and the full line-up, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a761ee25-d133-40ea-8aad-8dc39f5e033b/Snapinsta.app_470040004_1263768768192993_8596047776313993034_n_1080.jpg 2024 - T Mitsock’s PLAY WITH DOLLS From Thursday, December 12 - Saturday, December 14, Breaking the Binary Theatre ended ended the year with a three-day workshop of T Mitsock’s PLAY WITH DOLLS, directed by Ash Lloyd Ehrenberg and featuring Justin David Sullivan, Murphy Taylor Smith, and Sagan Chen. https://www.btb-nyc.com/24summerintensive daily 0.75 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/61128680-e686-46df-952b-ea49939a2e0d/Screen+Shot+2024-04-16+at+11.48.14+AM.png 2024 SUMMER INTENSIVE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.btb-nyc.com/soldiergirls daily 0.75 2024-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b9820b62-6f56-4fdc-aa48-78c107c5690c/SOLDIERGIRLS+Eventbrite+Banner.png SOLDIERGIRLS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/db76be07-4cc6-49b5-8dc9-34ec8e1a4357/Emil+Weinstein.jpg SOLDIERGIRLS - Emil Weinstein Writer Emil Weinstein is an award-winning writer/director for stage and screen. Recent work includes: adapting Comedy of Errors for The Old Globe, staff writing on A League of Their Own for Amazon, and directing four episodes of the final season of The L Word: Generation Q for Showtime. Emil's short film, In France Michelle is a Man's Name played at festivals around the world, winning Grand Jury Prizes at Slamdance and Outfest. Emil graduated Summa Cum Laude from Smith College, and received an M.F.A. from at Yale School of Drama where he directed the first workshop production of Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8e617952-9a47-4c77-918e-ca4ad09ab74a/Emily+Johnson-Erday.jpg SOLDIERGIRLS - Emily Johnson-Erday (she/her) Composer Emily Johnson-Erday (she/her) is a queer theater maker raised in the old-time music community of North Carolina, and her happy place is the intersection of new works, folk music and queer narratives. Past work as an actor-musician includes How To Break (New Victory Labworks), The Stray (Rebel Playhouse), A Short Life of Trouble (Everyday Inferno Theater Company), Trial By Fire (Columbia Stages), and The Trial of Mrs. Surratt (The Wandering Theater Company). Emily co-wrote the music and lyrics for original musicals Harpies for the Dead (Thin Space Productions) and Welcome to the Doll Den (Electric Eye Ensemble). Currently, Emily tours with folk band The Starlight Darlins and serves as the music director for the viral, nerdy interactive show The Fantasy Tavern. She is also proud to be a second-year candidate in the BMI Musical Theater Writing Workshop! A thousand thanks to my family, community, and loves. @thebanjowitch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8d5d139b-673f-4f36-bd48-951898b363c8/Miranda+Haymon.JPG SOLDIERGIRLS - Miranda Haymon Director Miranda Haymon is a Princess Grace Award-winning director and writer. As a theater director, Miranda has developed and staged work with The Tank, NYTW, Roundabout, Ars Nova, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, Bushwick Starr, Signature Theater and more. Miranda has served as Visiting Faculty at Fordham, Dartmouth, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan, and Rutgers, with upcoming appointments at Harvard University and Bard College. Past fellowships/residencies include New Georges, Space on Ryder Farm, LCT Director’s Lab, Wingspace, NYTW 2050, Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club and Arena Stage. In the brand sphere, Miranda has directed projects with e.l.f., Progressive, Gucci, Garage Magazine, Dunkin’ and Spectrum. As a writer, Miranda most recently wrote Dylan Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Girlhood Live!” at the Rainbow Room. Currently, Miranda is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2622a09a-4b30-406e-bb05-f83bbb435f33/Murphy+Taylor+Smith+%28she_her%29.jpg SOLDIERGIRLS - Murphy Taylor Smith (she/her) Performer Murphy Taylor Smith (she/her) is an actress and songwriter. Theatre: A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL (Centre Theatre Group, dir. by Tina Landau), DOLL/GIRL (Joe's Pub). Film: OH SUGAR! (dir. Gabe Dunn). She has written the music and lyrics for: WATCHDOG, an identical twin psycho thriller; ELEKTRIC, a trans woman-centered Oresteia; and RADIO: A MUSICAL GHOST STORY, a lesbian horror film. The RADIO original soundtrack and her latest single Monster are available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music. @msmurphysmith // MurphyTaylorSmith.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/780d517d-302d-4b94-979c-dc9bfd400269/Rad+Pereira+%28they_them%29.jpg SOLDIERGIRLS - Rad Pereira (they/them) Performer Rad Pereira (they/them) is an (im)migrant cultural worker building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures from Pindorama (Brasil). Rad was most recently seen in Orlando (Signature Theatre), The Creator (20th Century Studios), Bad Things (AMC+), BETTY (HBO), High Maintenance (HBO). They have told stories on stoops, swamps, screens and stages including CBS, NBC, La Mama etc., Shakespeare Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr and many more. They are a proud alum of EMERGENYC. They are building a two-spirit Haudenosaunee led food sovereignty project: Iron Path Farms. Their book co-written with Jan Cohen-Cruz, Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, By Those Who Lived It is available through New Village Press. Rad is grateful for continued fruitful collaboration with Breaking the Binary! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b66dfcd2-34f3-4201-b5ad-b51dfe968724/Nina+Ross+%28they_them%29.jpg SOLDIERGIRLS - Nina Ross (they/them) Musician Nina Ross (they/them) is a Brooklyn based actor and musician. They go by Softee in their music, and their latest album Natural is out now everywhere. Selected theater credits: To Kill A Mockingbird (Broadway), The Iceman Cometh (Broadway), Shhhh (Atlantic Theater), The Hard Problem (Lincoln Center); TV/film: Bad Monkey (Apple TV), Red Oaks (Prime Video). They have a BFA in drama from Juilliard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8c26c002-732f-4e54-af75-e3722900ced3/Storm+Thomas+%28he_him%29.jpg SOLDIERGIRLS - Storm Thomas (he/him) Musician Storm Thomas (he/him) is an intensely creative and rigorous thinker. A multi-hyphenate drummer, writer, composer, and educator; Storm has been combining music, theater, and social justice theory single-mindedly and is sought out not just as a skilled maker but as a teacher, dramaturg, and consultant on intersectional thought in the musical theater form. MFA in Theater, Sarah Lawrence College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/74f254fd-d503-4683-9b79-8989a3884123/Carmen+LoBue+%28they_them%29.png SOLDIERGIRLS - Carmen LoBue (they/them) Stage Directions Reader Carmen LoBue (they/them) is a Queer, Non-Binary, Afro-Philipinx American Filmmaker with a passion for social activism that is expressed through their work as a creator. Carmen’s early recognition includes Paper Magazine's "Paper Predictions: 100 people taking over 2019" and the Disruptor Foundation (Craig Hatkoff) and The Legacy Lab’s 2018 New Legacy Maker Honoree. LoBue directed Season One of the dramedy web series CHEER UP CHARLIE (Hollyshorts and Urbanworld Film Festival ‘19) Their work on Cheer Up Charlie also earned them a nomination for Best Director at TOWERFEST in 2019. Carmen’s producing and directing work continues with the documentary series HERassment; exploring harassment in various forms from survivor perspectives, centering marginalized people. Additionally, their episode of ‘Your Attention Please’ is currently available to watch on Hulu. This episode is a part of Hulu’s Initiative 29 series, and it’s entitled ‘Tao Leigh Goffe’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b5d22713-4019-484e-afbb-1e3ef73467f6/George+Luton+%28they_he%29.jpeg SOLDIERGIRLS - George Luton (they/he) Music Director, Arranger, and Orchestrator George Luton (they/he) is a theatre composer, music director, and accompanist. OFF-BROADWAY: More Than This World (The York Theatre). Move Meant (Prospect Theatre Company). NYC (select): Grace and the Ghost (54 Below, Studio Cast Recording), On a Wing and a Chair (Greenroom 42), Alice, Of Sleepless Nights (The Tank), Truth Dare or Lesbian, Ghost Quartet (Off the Lane). REGIONAL: Mary Poppins, Once Upon a Mattress (Island Theatre Workshop). Hair, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Spring Awakening (Purple Summer Productions). Paradise Blue (Gloucester Stage). Nottingham: The Legend of Robin Hood (Moonlight Productions). Earhart, Stiltskin, Resting On Our Laurels (Stage 284). The Abolitionist's Refrain (Punctuate 4). George is a recipient of the NYPL 2024-2025 Across a Crowded Room Fellowship, a composer-lyricist with the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and an improvisational pianist with the nationally touring comedy show Broadway's Next Hit Musical. Follow them @GeorgeLuton.music and learn more at www.GeorgeLuton.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/20ecf4ad-e2b6-458b-bd70-fb712e8ae8e7/Rachel+A.+Zucker+%28they_them%29.jpeg SOLDIERGIRLS - Rachel A. Zucker (they/them) Stage Manager Rachel A. Zucker (they/them) Is thrilled to be making their Breaking The Binary Theatre debut. Thanks, George & Miranda! Broadway: SIX, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Prom, True West, Pretty Woman, Farinelli and the King, Indecent. Select Off-Broadway: JOB (Soho Playhouse, The Connelly Theater); Scene Partners, Lessons in Survival: 1971 (The Vineyard Theater); Kinky Boots (Stage 42); Misty, HELP (The Shed); Tiny Beautiful Things, Twelfth Night, Plenty, Southern Comfort, Grounded (The Public Theater); Hamlet, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline (Shakespeare in the Park); Working: A Musical, Roadshow (New York City Center); Lazarus (New York Theater Workshop); Curse of the Starving Class (Signature Theatre Company. Regional: Becoming a Man (A.R.T). MFA: Stage Management, Columbia University. Insta: @rzucker37. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/67a01b42-d0f2-44cc-a336-257dd296710c/Ryan+Adelsheim+%28they_them%29.jpeg SOLDIERGIRLS - Ryan Adelsheim (they/them) Dramaturg Ryan Adelsheim (they/them) is a new play dramaturg, producer, and lecturer in theater, dance, and performance studies at Tufts University. Their current research focuses on queer and trans theater and performance, with writing appearing in Theater magazine, and forthcoming in Routledge’s Dramaturgy and History: Staging the Archive anthology. An active artistic collaborator, recent credits include co-adaptor for Affinity based on the novel by Sarah Waters with director Alex Keegan, dramaturg and researcher for soldiergirls by Emil Weinstein, producer on Emerging Playwrights Commissions with Audible Theater, and dramaturg for The New Harmony Project annual conference. They are the recipient of the John W. Gassner prize for critical writing and research awards from the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies (FLAGS) at Yale. Ryan received their MFA from Yale Drama where they are a doctoral candidate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ffc53ddb-9c42-4e58-92ad-f04914d1e90e/Sophia+Huf+%28they_them%29.jpg SOLDIERGIRLS - Sophia Huf (they/them) Copyist Sophia Huf (they/them) is a bass trombonist hailing from Minnesota. Proficient in a multitude of musical genres, they have performed in many places and ensembles in orchestral, jazz, chamber, solo recital, and opera settings. Sophia is an outspoken advocate for female and queer participation in the brass community, having performed in drag on multiple occasions for queer audiences. They also have a passion for providing accessible music education to youth in rural areas, having participated in coaching, masterclasses, and private instruction in northern Minnesota and rural Wisconsin. Sophia holds a bachelors of music performance from University of Minnesota Duluth. They are currently pursuing a masters in music performance at Montclair State University, taught by many experts including Derek Bromme, Richard Gaynor, Jennifer Wharton, Weston Sprott, John Rojak, and Thomas Ashworth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a3f94d2f-714b-4e57-a392-2ee87bc1e0c3/Stephanie+L.+Carlin+%28she_they%29.jpeg SOLDIERGIRLS - Stephanie Carlin (she/they) A1 Stephanie L. Carlin (she/they) is a composer, writer, sound designer and orchestrator based in New York City, NY. She is currently developing Spectrum, a queer neurodiverse musical comedy, which was presented at New York Theatre Barn’s 17th Annual New Works Series and will be developed with the Fire Island Pines Arts Project. As a sound designer, she recently designed for Until Dark, Fry Bread Queen, and co-designed Twenty-Sided Tavern at Broadway Playhouse in Chicago. As a composer, she has scored “Two Anxious Bisexuals” which was selected for the 2022 Cannes Short Film Festival. She is an alum of The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and Berklee College of Music. She is always willing to discover, write, and create shows that everyone can enjoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/36659c47-95ff-4c30-aa72-a02b03c1d8e8/Zack+Lobel+%28he_him%29.png SOLDIERGIRLS - Zack Lobel (he/him) Lighting and Projection Designer Zack Lobel (he/him) is a video and lighting designer. His work has been seen across theaters, museums, and nightclubs. He recently designed the premiere of Omari Wiles’ award-winning New York Is Burning (Guggenheim, The Joyce, ADF), along with the Underground Uptown Dance Festival at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He is a resident video designer at the historic Webster Hall, and one of the original lighting designers at 3 Dollar Bill. Upcoming: This is My Favorite Song (Playwrights Horizons). Select Theatrical Designs: The Public, HERE Arts, JACK, The Brick, LaMama, Ma-Yi, McKittrick / Sleep No More, Abrons. Associate Designs: Roundabout, Berkeley Rep, NYTW, Target Margin. zacklobel.com @zacklobel https://www.btb-nyc.com/pridefundraiser daily 0.75 2024-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f45511f9-5ded-43f5-92da-0f8dd06d3e3b/Screen+Shot+2024-06-03+at+8.34.05+AM.png PRIDE FUNDRAISER - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.btb-nyc.com/red-ink daily 0.75 2024-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/55d9c652-a260-409e-8223-32b67c06bae2/Red+Ink+Poster.png RED INK - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d3fbb712-d589-4191-af83-2ac8769364ab/Screen+Shot+2024-07-08+at+7.40.37+PM.png RED INK - Cecilia Gentili Creator Cecilia Gentili was an activist, author and actress. Originally from Argentina and seeking a safer life as a transgender woman, she moved to the United States in 2000, where she lived undocumented for 10 years and made her living through sex work. Starting as an intern at The Center, she was brought into Apicha Community Health Center to develop transgender health services, expanding the program from 27 patients in 2012 to over 500 in 2016. From 2016 to 2019, she served as the Managing Director of Policy at GMHC, where she was instrumental in the passing of GENDA. Her successes in policy inspired her to found Decrim NY, a coalition working towards the decriminalization of sex work; COIN, which provides free health and gender-affirming care to sex workers; and Trans Equity Consulting, which continues to establish genuine equity in workplaces around the world. Her autobiographical book Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist won the ALA Stonewall Book Award. As an actress, she appeared on Pose as Miss Orlando and in her first solo show, The Knife Cuts Both Ways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/56dd250e-1463-45a3-bc9b-e98b27ee498a/Jes+Tom.JPG RED INK - Jes Tom (they/he) Performer (7/30 - 8/4) Jes Tom is an actor, writer, and stand-up comic, gleefully providing the trans, queer, Asian American, radical cyborg perspective that everyone never knew they wanted. They were most recently a Story Editor for season two of the Taika Waititi series OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH for HBO Max. In addition, their new solo comedy show LESS LONELY premiered off Broadway in December 2023, with Elliot Page presenting. They also opened for Hannah Gadsby in her multi-comic special, HANNAH GADSBY PRESENT: A GENDER AGENDA, available on Netflix. They can be seen in HBO Max’s LOVE LIFE and on their own digital series DEAR JES, for Netflix’s The Most. Their writing has been published by Reductress, Shondaland, and Condé Nast’s Them, and they wrote for the Audible/Broadway Video series HOT WHITE HEIST, produced by Alan Cumming. Jes has been featured in The New York Times, Vice, Ozy, Forbes, and NowThis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4dff4d47-5fb9-4d8a-a3f0-62514d8581db/Angelica+Ross.jpg RED INK - Angelica Ross (she/her) Performer (8/6 - 8/11) Actress, Singer Songwriter, Founder of TransTech & Human Rights Advocate. From the boardroom to Broadway, Hollywood to Capitol Hill, Angelica Ross is a leading figure of success and strength in the movement for human rights advocacy focused on Transgender and racial equality. A fan favorite on FX’s award-winning hit POSE plus both the ninth and tenth seasons of Ryan Murphy’s FX hit American Horror Story. June 3, 2022 Angelica released her debut music video and single, ONLY YOU. Miss Ross recently announced her forthcoming untitled book and original podcast as she continues to blaze new trails, kick open doors, and build her own table with ample open seats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e49a55e4-0ed5-456c-9952-e620a48b0675/Peppermint.jpg RED INK - Peppermint (she/her) Performer (8/13 - 8/18) Peppermint rose to fame as the first out trans contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, finishing as runner-up. She then made history as the first trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway in Head Over Heels. Her recent projects include roles in Netflix's Survival of the Thickest, Hulu's Fire Island, and various TV series. She has hosted and presented at the GLAAD Media Awards and co-hosts the Black Queer Town Hall podcast. Peppermint is also an activist, serving as the ACLU's first Artist Ambassador for Trans Justice and raising funds for LGBTQ+ organizations. She has been recognized for her work with award nominations and honors, including a GLAAD Media Award nomination, a "Queeroes" award, and a spot on Out magazine's "OUT100" list. https://www.btb-nyc.com/morphine daily 0.75 2024-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7e5240f1-77b3-4b36-ae19-58604e9085f5/MLD+Live.jpg MORPHINE LIVE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.btb-nyc.com/24festival daily 0.75 2024-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4716df7b-0e73-4935-ba75-1fc87724d6d5/2024+Festival+Logo.png 2024 FESTIVAL - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4019be6c-288d-44f4-9ba3-b4b1f3017e3c/3.png 2024 FESTIVAL - TRUTH //: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY REVUE MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2024 7PM at Littlefield co-conceived by Noax (they/them) and George Strus (they/them) featuring Alaïa, Amanda Tori Meating (she/her), Anania Williams (they/she), Ari Notartomaso (they/he), César Alvarez (they/them), Garrett Allen (Garrett/they/them), Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they), Jade Jones aka Litty Official (they/them), JMV (they/them/thou), Nico Carney (he/him), Nora Schell (they/them), & ONE (Esco Jouléy) Following last year’s presentation of PARADISE, Noax and BTB Founding Artistic Director George Strus are joining forces again to create TRUTH //: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY REVUE at Littlefield. This special opening performance will showcase the talents of twelve stellar TNB2S+ artists and acts of various disciplines: vocalists, drag artists, comedians, and more showcasing original performance pieces inspired by the prompt "truth // dare." For more information on TRUTH //, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f8edb610-82f5-4414-b820-0a27a4f5dfac/4.png 2024 FESTIVAL - PRUNIN, HOEIN N CUTTIN GRAPES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2024 7PM at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater by Nissy Aya (Nissy; she/ze/we) directed by Dominique Rider Stage Manager: Rachel Denise April (they/them) Stage Directions Reader: Ren King (they/he) featuring Aja Lynn Downing (she/her), fatima jamal, Javon Q. Minter (they/she), Jennifer Nikki Kidwell (she/they), Mariyea (she/her), Starr Kirkland (she/they), & Temidayo Amay (them) In the highly regimented ▇▇▇▇, we witness the lives and lessons of a community of femmes assigned to teach the tools of sexual pleasure to others. Led by Alpha and her right-hand, her beta, Bilinda, this proud community of hoes carries on just them and their chil'ren. But with the pressures of a Choosing looming, the community deals with an unexpected and daunting assignment. For more information on PRUNIN, HOEIN N CUTTIN GRAPES, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fe4b59e1-92a5-4e3b-80c4-fea5391ec000/5.png 2024 FESTIVAL - HARVESTING OLIVES: A COLLECTIVE IMPROVISATION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2024 7PM at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater written and performed by Yaffa AS (they/she) developed in collaboration with Rad Pereira (they/them) Stage Manager: Bea Perez-Arche (she/they) Co-Producer: Sara Ramirez (they/them) ASL Interpreter: Zoey Walker (they/them) HARVESTING OLIVES is a mask required performance. Drawing from Mx. Yaffa’s books of writing and poetry as a trans Palestinian death worker and community organizer, we invoke utopias, spiral through grief and jump between realms through a collective improvisation. We hold a container for chaos, intimacy, restorative devastation, falling apart, and space to commune with ancestors through oral history and experimentation. HARVESTING OLIVES is adapted from Desecrated Poppies, Blood Orange, and Inara with guidance from ancestors, community members, and guides. For more information on HARVESTING OLIVES: A COLLECTIVE IMPROVISATION, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e548d35e-e0ac-4a66-acda-1474d5bb36b3/6.png 2024 FESTIVAL - FIRESIDE DANCES THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2024 7PM at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater by MJ Kaufman (he/they) directed by Aya Ogawa Stage Manager: Angie Salazar (she/they) Stage Directions Reader: Colin Buckingham (He/they) featuring Blair Barker (they/them), Colleen Litchfield (she/they), Drae Campbell (she/they), Karoline (they/them) & Zo Tipp (they/them) When 16-year-old Em decides to move from a farm in rural Oregon to Portland in order to go high school, she lands in the home of distant relatives: lesbian moms Greta and Annie and their overachieving 8-year-old Kaitlyn. Cultures clash between rural and urban queer lifestyles, class differences and politics but Em and Kaitlyn vow to stay sisters no matter what. For more information on FIRESIDE DANCES, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b7585ef7-d1f2-42c0-b43c-8b9431ca1401/7.png 2024 FESTIVAL - A RARE BIRD FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2024 7PM at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater written and directed by Zaza Diana Oh (they/them) Intimacy Director: Alex Might (she/her) Stage Manager: Ariana Swei (they/them) Assistant Director/Acting Coach: Michi Zaya (any pronouns) Assistant Director/Movement Coach: Shannon Yu 余香儒 (sha/shas) featuring Akane Little (they/them), Mei Ann Teo (they/them) & Zaza Diana Oh (they/them) Unboxable Artist, Sonic Ritualist, and Actor Zaza Diana Oh’s (they/them) A Rare Bird is pulled from THE DESIRE ARCHIVES, Oh's year-long personal study on epigenetics, desire, and the brain. A Rare Bird is an interdisciplinary choreo-play, Live Physical Intimacy, and Quiet and Honest Sex Show, as it captures Skye and Gabriel’s date on the carpeted floor against the couch of a studio apartment where neither is willing or able to make the first move. A Rare Bird blends, defies, and subverts Erotic Thriller Cinema, Narrative Play, Stage Sex Show, and finally the Quiet and Slow Sex Education so many of us long for. While seeking Refuge in Ceremony, this is an ode to Introversion, (loud) pauses, and letting less be. For more information on A RARE BIRD, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/01b0ffb9-cc3c-4f27-9493-5b9bec8471db/8.png 2024 FESTIVAL - LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2024 7PM at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater by Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel (she/they) directed by Adin Walker (they/them) Dramaturg: abigail jean-baptiste Stage Manager/Assistant Director: Bea Perez-Arche (she/they) Stage Directions Reader: Janice Amaya (they/them/elle) Design Consultant: Hannah Tran (she/they) featuring Clew (they/them), Marquise Vilsón (he/him) & Samora la Perdida (she/they) Estrella, a young trans playwright, is at a spiritual crossroads. She becomes the Old Hollywood actress Lupe Velez on the last night of her life to find the answers to her questions, and the two people who hold them are Anna May Wong and Gary Cooper, her lifetime's greatest relationships. LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS spans years in cinematic history to raise the question: what are the costs to being a queer artist of color in today's industry, and what would happen if we found a way of creating ourselves and our work outside of it? For more information on LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b6cce279-f725-403c-bdc6-6e37240fe29f/10.png 2024 FESTIVAL - // DARE: A COLLECTION OF COMMISSIONED SCENES AND MONOLOGUES SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2024 7PM at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater co-conceived by L Morgan Lee (she/her) and George Strus (they/them) directed by L Morgan Lee (she/her) in partnership with Broadway Licensing Stage Manager: Rachel Denise April (they/them) Stage Directions Reader: Sagan Chen featuring new works by by D.A. Mindell, Dillon Yruegas (he/él), Esmé Maria Ng (they/he/she), Ianne Fields Stewart (they/she), Imani Russell (they/them), Jayne Deely (they/them), Jen Silverman (they/them), Jordan Ramirez Puckett (they/them), Nikhil Mahapatra (any pronouns), Nora Brigid Monahan (she/they), Sasha Velour (she/they) and Sophie Sagan-Gutherz (they/them) featuring b (they/them), Brigette Lundy-Paine, Carl Clemons-Hopkins (they/he), Che Kabia (they/them/theirs), Joslyn Defreece (she/her) & Lux Pascal (she/her) Following OVERHEARD and BLISS, BTB Core Community member L Morgan Lee and Founding Artistic Director George Strus are partnering with Broadway Licensing for the third year in a row to create // DARE: A COLLECTION OF COMMISSIONED SCENES AND MONOLOGUES. The twelve commissioned works inspired by the prompt "truth // dare" will be crafted together and brought to life by a cast of five TNB2S+ performers to close the 2024 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. The works will then be published and licensed by Broadway Licensing in 2025. For more information on // DARE please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/35c2d22b-fc83-4690-bc45-7040180a1059/Trierweiler.Bailey.jpg 2024 FESTIVAL - Bailey Trierweiler (he/him) Co-Sound Designer Bailey Trierweiler (he/him) is a New York based sound designer, editor, engineer and mixer for live theater performance, installation, dance and audio drama. Select design credits include Blood of the Lamb (59E59); Riverside (Indy Shakes); Dangerous Days (Miami New Drama); The Slow Dance (59E59); Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf Theatre); already there (The REACH at the Kennedy Center), among others. Select associate sound designer for The Blood Quilt (Lincoln Center Theatre); Valour: A Drag Spectacular (La Jolla Playhouse); The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Co); KATE (Connelly Theater); The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre Company); Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center Theatre); King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Peerless (59E59) among others. M.F.A - Yale School of Drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/910e28c4-df5f-4877-b26c-2b1730cc36c6/Bryar%2BBarborka%2BHeadshot.jpeg 2024 FESTIVAL - Bryar Barborka (they/them) Literary Manager Bryar Barborka (they/them) is a Chicago-based nonbinary Latine theater artist. They are the Literary Associate at Seven Devils New Play Foundry and the Literary and Casting Associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Bryar has also worked with: Second Stage Theater, The Playwrights' Center, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Teatro Vista, Definition Theatre, Interrobang Theatre Project, and the Ojai Playwrights Conference among others in various capacities. They are passionate about work that expands theater audiences and reaches those that have historically been left out of the American theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0c12492a-4647-45ad-a1ce-270213991d60/Charlie%2BHano%2B%28he_him%29.jpg 2024 FESTIVAL - Charlie Hano (he/him) Casting Director Charlie Hano, CSA (he/him). Charlie is a casting professional and creative consultant based in New York and Chicago. Some of his previous credits include MUD (Mabou Mines, winner of a 2020 Obie Award for best director), Work In Progress: Season 2 (PR Casting, Showtime), The Life! (Encores), Camelot (The MUNY), The Wolves (Actors Theatre of Louisville), soft (MCC), and John Proctor Was The Villian (Studio Theatre in DC). In addition, he is a member of the team at The Telsey Office. For more information, visit www.hanocasting.org. Charlie is a proud member of the transgender community and is thrilled to be part of this festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1e8125e6-2ee3-465f-bc2a-e2e4c3163b9c/IMG_7359+%282%29.jpg 2024 FESTIVAL - Christopher Darbassie Co-Sound Designer (Select Credits): The Counter (Roundabout), Almost There (Audible @ Minetta Lane), Table 17 (MCC), Six Characters (LCT3), Apiary, Camp Siegfried (2nd Stage) Antiquities, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons), Grangeville, A Bright New Boise, A Case for the Existence of God (Signature Theater), Uncle Vanya (O’Henry Productions), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane Theater), Fly Away (Petzel Gallery), Black Exhibition (The Bushwick Starr). Chris has designed for art installations, radio plays, and devised works in collaboration with The National Black Theater, The Public, Ars Nova, and more. www.darbassiedesign.com | Free Palestine | Free Congo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f6645f0c-cb9d-4716-902a-25f00f5adb17/HEADSHOT+%281%29.jpg 2024 FESTIVAL - Esmé Maria Ng (they/he/she) Associate Producer Esmé Maria Ng (they/he/she) is a queer, non-binary theater maker of Cantonese and Scottish descent who loves heartbreak and developing new plays. They have held artistic and producing positions at Manhattan Theatre Club, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Little Island. As a playwright, Esmé has been recognized as a Eugene O’Neill Finalist, a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow, and a June Bingham New Playwright Commission Recipient. Currently, Esmé is a writer with bylines in American Theater Magazine and a fellow at The Tank NYC and Creative & Independent Producers Alliance. @esmemariang esmemariang.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/22d4290f-fa39-4266-938e-cecf4c071510/FLO+%281+of+1%29.jpeg 2024 FESTIVAL - Flower Estefana Rios Assistant Producer Flower Estefana Rios is a Chicana multi-hyphenate artist specializing in theater and nightlife industries! As an actress has been devoted to developing new work, with workshop credits with INTAR, Labrynth, Repetorio, and SoHo Rep; last seen in Transparent with Boundless Theater Co. As a singer can be seen at many a cabaret at 54 Below, as well as cover shows with her band of trans musicians! This is Flower’s 2nd producing role with BTB following this summer’s run of Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink! Flower can also be found working the door or coat check at your local Brooklyn nightclubs. @mxflowertortilla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/013cc12e-4ac1-4551-9246-4ea1b36c0605/Screen+Shot+2024-09-21+at+4.12.22+PM+%281%29.png 2024 FESTIVAL - George Strus (they/them) Founding Artistic Director George Strus (they/them) is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning trans non-binary Latiné producer and dramaturg. They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre: an Obie Award-winning new work development and community building hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2s+) theatermakers. Since the organization’s launch in July of 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre has paid out over $500,000 to over 400 TNB2S+ artists. Commercially, they were a proud co-producer of HERE WE ARE and ILLINOISE (2024 Tony Nomination). Current co-producing credits include OH, MARY!, THE ROOMMATE, ROMEO + JULIET. Upcoming co-producing credits ALL IN, and THE LAST FIVE YEARS. They were awarded the 2024 Prince Fellowship (in association with Columbia University School of the Arts), receiving mentorship from Kristin Caskey, Sue Frost, Jeffrey Seller, Thomas Schumacher, and David Stone. www.georgestrus.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b4db7f91-10b0-4aeb-b770-62a17c14c94c/Marc%2BElla%2BRoy%2Bheadshot.png 2024 FESTIVAL - Marc Ella Roy (they/them) Graphic Designer Marc Ella Roy (they/them) is a butch nonbinary graphic designer, multimedia artist, and recent graduate of Hunter College's Emerging Media program, currently working on unceded Lenape land / the NYC metro area. They have crafted illustrations and visual identities for a range of touring musicians, small businesses, academic publications, and nonprofits. In their work, they hope to reveal the web of connections that unite seemingly disparate disciplines and social issues. @marcplusella https://www.btb-nyc.com/truth daily 0.75 2024-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/06b5f291-2dea-4d67-89e3-36cde6026a4b/them%29.jpg TRUTH // - Noax (they/them) Noax (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Manhattan. They have worked professionally in the entertainment industry for several years as an actor, singer, writer, and advocate in NYC. They seek to foster community amongst the various ecosystems they inhabit and discover transformative ways in which we can educate artists that are rooted in equity, self-empowerment, and community building. Organizations to consider donating to: Breaking the Binary, Black Trans Liberation, For the Gworls, Black Trans Femmes in the Arts, and The Marsha P. Johnson Institute. www.noax.me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1b87983e-cc2c-4078-878f-a95083f3a908/Screen+Shot+2024-09-21+at+4.12.22+PM+%283%29.png TRUTH // - George Strus (they/them) George Strus (they/them) is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning trans non-binary Latiné producer and dramaturg. They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre: an Obie Award-winning new work development and community building hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2s+) theatermakers. Since the organization’s launch in July of 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre has paid out over $500,000 to over 400 TNB2S+ artists. Commercially, they were a proud co-producer of HERE WE ARE and ILLINOISE (2024 Tony Nomination). Current co-producing credits include OH, MARY!, THE ROOMMATE, ROMEO + JULIET. Upcoming co-producing credits ALL IN, and THE LAST FIVE YEARS. They were awarded the 2024 Prince Fellowship (in association with Columbia University School of the Arts), receiving mentorship from Kristin Caskey, Sue Frost, Jeffrey Seller, Thomas Schumacher, and David Stone. www.georgestrus.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1735bffb-7506-4477-b80f-3df658fbe661/Alaia_headshot+%281%29.jpg TRUTH // - Alaïa Performer Born and raised on the far-eastern coast of Russia, Alaïa’s burning enthusiasm for performance has led her around the globe. After studying the roots of physical theater, jazz, and contemporary dance at a French conservatory, she relocated to New York City and attained a degree at Tisch School of the Arts in 2022. Since then, Alaïa has toured with pop sensation Lady Gaga and burlesque royalty Dita Von Teese, shown solo multidisciplinary work around New York City nightclubs, as well as directed and starred in numerous short films and television features. She is currently performing in CABARET at the Kit Kat Club that opened on Broadway in April 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3ccc7697-2fc4-4cf2-9d88-12e68cbacda1/Amanda+Tori+Meating+%28she_her%29.jpeg TRUTH // - Amanda Tori Meating Performer Amanda Tori Meating is one of the breakout stars of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16. She is known for iconic looks, high energy dance performances, and spicy onscreen moments. Since her season, Amanda has been touring the US and internationally, has released her first EP Personality Hire, and is growing the perkiest new pair of tiddies in NYC. She is thrilled to be weaponizing her BFA in this amazing showcase of queer talent! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c033a8e2-fddc-45bd-988c-e221680eb7d4/Anania+Williams+%28they_she%29.jpg TRUTH // - Anania Williams (they/she) Performer Anania Williams (they/she) is an actor, singer, creator, and drag artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Credits include: Lucky Stiff (Domonique— NYC), Kinky Boots (Lola— Chicago, IL), Into the Woods (Narrator- Boston, MA), Hunchback of Notre Dame (Fredric- Mars Hill, NC), and Don’t Look Up (Netflix Productions- Boston, MA). They’d like to thank their chosen family for being an amazing support system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9d473766-3da2-48e0-a64c-17c8f78aa4e1/Ari+Notartomaso+%28they_he%29.jpeg TRUTH // - Ari Notartomaso (they/he) Performer Ari Notartomaso (they/he) is an actor, singer/songwriter, and unabashed fool. They recently made their NY theatre debut with NYCC’s Encores! acclaimed production of TITANIC. Television: “Cynthia” in GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES. Film: MEAN GIRLS THE MUSICAL, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: NEXT OF KIN. Theatre: Williamstown Theatre Festival Cabaret, INVINCIBLE (World Premiere). @arinotartomaso on all socials! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3ec5a4b7-910a-4b77-9b12-86bfade86055/Ce%CC%81sar+Alvarez+%28they_them%29.jpeg TRUTH // - César Alvarez (they/them) Performer César Alvarez (they/them) is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create big experimental gatherings disguised as musicals, in the key of inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, bandleader and sound artist, César's work inhabits a space between the worlds of theater, music, performance art and social practice. César was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow, a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award in 2016, The Kleban Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. César teaches at Dartmouth College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/06f35c70-fe85-42fe-863a-dc8b6ad1c7d5/Garrett+Allen+%28Garrett_they_them%29.jpg TRUTH // - Garrett Allen (Garrett/they/them) Performer Garrett Allen (Garrett/they/them) is an artist and director. Garrett’s current practice and work centers live mediums and performance based experiences alongside explorations of liveness, embodiment, and perception in non-live forms. They engage materials and processes excavating op/re-pressions within humanity, identity, perception, and existence toward individual and collective reflection, transformation, and liberation. Garrett has shown, directed, or developed work at the School of Drama at Yale, New York Stage and Film, Ars Nova, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Knockdown Center, School of Visual Arts NYC, Prelude Festival, Spectrum NYC, and Jupiter Disco among others. MFA: Yale. www.garrett-allen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ded19083-3a4b-4b89-98df-647f092bd511/Jade+Jones+aka+Litty+Official+%28They_Them%29.jpg TRUTH // - Jade Jones aka Litty Official (They/Them) Performer Jade Jones (They/Them), most recently seen as Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables at The MUNY in St. Louis, is known for their portrayal of “Belle” in Olney Theatre’s internationally-acclaimed production of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast. Jade made their New York debut in 2023 as Mary in the off-Broadway revival of Vanities. They were spotlit on ABC 20/20’s 25th anniversary Cinderella reunion special alongside Billy Porter and Todrick Hall, and has been featured in Playbill, MSNBC, and People magazine. Their music can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and Soundcloud, under the moniker ‘Litty Official’. @LittyOfficial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/bf01d122-5416-4865-ae44-b3f5af2d5ce8/JMV+%28they_them_thou%29.jpg TRUTH // - JMV (they/them/thou) Performer JMV (they/them) is a multiple Glam Award winner for both Go-Go and Burlesque, a popular choreographer for every major RuPaul’s Drag Race, soloist for Night of 1000 Stevies, HIV & LGBTQ+ activist, event producer—notably Miss Hell’s Kitchen, Broadway Bares veteran, and disco diva around town. They are a non-binary drag performer known for their glamorous, yet edgy style & eccentric personality. The drag child of Sherry Vine is known for some crude humor now & again, no surprise there. With a zesty personality, JMV is always bound to kick it up a notch in any show. You can follow JMV’s journey on Instagram @theonlyjmv. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ef010d90-8996-47bf-a8fd-fd20a54f7f55/Justin+David+Sullivan+%28he_she_they%29.jpeg TRUTH // - Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they) Performer Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they) is a non-binary singer, actor, and artist in New York City. Originally from Southern California, Justin was born with a passion to create and the determination to color the world with every crayon in the box. Currently, Justin is starring as May in the pop-hit Broadway musical & Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Justin’s heart for theatre stems from their love for storytelling. They are passionate about diversity and representation in the performing arts and hopes to be seen as an advocate of inclusivity. Their greatest hope is for their art to continue to represent marginalized communities and shed light to the culture and experiences that they carry as an openly queer person of Mexican and Korean descent. Justin is committed to using her platform to uplift and inspire other trans, non-binary, and gender expansive people and give a voice to the voiceless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0f9750a3-37f5-4c3a-b1eb-3f226d4a1202/Nico+Carney+%28he_him%29.JPEG TRUTH // - Nico Carney (he/him) Performer Nico Carney is a Brooklyn based standup comedian, actor and writer. His standup covers his experiences as a trans man, growing up in Savannah, Georgia, and whatever else he finds silly and interesting. Nico co-hosts a monthly show at Club Cumming called BOYS CLUB, which was a 2022 NYCF headlining show and is now a popular podcast of the same name. Nico performs at clubs and theaters all over NYC and the country, and was part of the NETFLIX INTRODUCING… showcase at the 2022 Netflix Is A Joke Festival. Nico has also been featured on Comedy Central’s The Gag, and is developing the half hour comedy BOYS CLUB with Scott King and Imagine Entertainment. Nico was recently a 2023 JUST FOR LAUGHS NEW FACE in the standup category and made his television debut on LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS. Nico returned to Netflix Is A Joke this year to exclusively premiere his new hour WELCOME TO THE NICOVERSE and headlined Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin this April. On the acting side, Nico recently wrapped his first feature gig as the lead of Siobhan McCarthy’s indie trans buddy comedy SHE’S THE HE, and was named to the 2024 Vulture Comics To Watch list. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/73a3aec9-018a-4679-a0f8-235767218900/Nora+Schell+%28they_them%29.jpeg TRUTH // - Nora Schell (they/them) Performer Nora Schell (they/them) is a Drama Desk, Drama League and Clive Barnes award nominated actor. They are known for their recent turn as Bustopher Jones in CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL, JAGGED LITTLE PILL & SPAMILTON. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/bb5f8d4d-e479-40aa-a4fc-faa3d8487aca/ONE+%28Esco+Joule%CC%81y%29.JPG TRUTH // - ONE (Esco Jouléy) Performer ONE (Esco Jouléy). AnyOne, EveryOne, No One. @onezlife. https://www.btb-nyc.com/prunin daily 0.75 2024-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3f32617f-13a6-496b-ad4c-7684e4eacbfa/Screen+Shot+2024-10-18+at+4.01.20+PM.jpg PRUNIN - Nissy Aya (Nissy; she/ze/we) Playwright Nissy Aya (Nissy; she/ze/we) is Black and from the Bronx. She and all her younger selves tell stories and tall tales -- while helping others to do the same. As a cultural worker and writer, we believe in the transformative nature of storytelling, and examining how we move forward/shape new worlds/end this world through healing justice, Afrofuturist frameworks, and practices of feeling good. Our creative work reflects those notions while exploring the lines between archives and memory, detailing both the absence and presence of love, and giving all the life (and then some) to Black Femmes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c724f99c-7bd1-4e99-8f63-b773a937345b/Dominique+Rider.JPG PRUNIN - Dominique Rider Director Dominique Rider is a Brooklyn-based director and writer whose work seeks to answer the question: “What is a world unmade by slavery?” while analyzing the layers of anti-blackness that maintain our world. Deploying theatre and performance as tools of Afropessimism, Dominique has developed and staged work with Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage, The Bushwick Starr, The New Group, The Park Avenue Armory, and more. Past fellowships/residencies include The Civilians R&D, The Atlantic, Hi-Arts, The National Black Theatre, TheaterWorks Hartford, NYSAF, BRIC Arts, Roundabout, and NAMT. Dominique is a Vision Resident at Ars Nova, a producer with CLASSIX, and an artist in residence at Duke University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a78b8503-d96b-42c5-8afd-34f1822b1fda/Trierweiler.Bailey.jpg PRUNIN - Bailey Trierweiler (he/him) Sound Designer Bailey Trierweiler (he/him) is a New York based sound designer, editor, engineer and mixer for live theater performance, installation, dance and audio drama. Select design credits include Blood of the Lamb (59E59); Riverside (Indy Shakes); Dangerous Days (Miami New Drama); The Slow Dance (59E59); Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf Theatre); already there (The REACH at the Kennedy Center), among others. Select associate sound designer for The Blood Quilt (Lincoln Center Theatre); Valour: A Drag Spectacular (La Jolla Playhouse); The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Co); KATE (Connelly Theater); The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre Company); Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center Theatre); King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Peerless (59E59) among others. M.F.A - Yale School of Drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9fec20df-e16c-4672-833d-391e282d25ea/Rachel+April+%28they_them%29.png PRUNIN - Rachel Denise April (they/them) Stage Manager Rachel Denise April (they/them) is a Guyanese-American Stage Manager, who has studied Theatrical Design and Stage Management at the City College of New York. Select Credits include: Jordans (The Public Theater), The Mood Room (Big Dance Theater) Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group), soft (MCC) Chicken and Biscuits (Queens Theatre), The Baby Monitor (Different Translation), The Big Green Theater Festival (SuperHero Playhouse) The Hole (Zhailon Levingston), Neptune (Timothy DuWhite), , Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (MTWorks), and The Fire This Time Festival 2015 (The Kraine Theater). They have worked on projects throughout the United States and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/06f666c3-d458-47b3-b84f-0976cf033d9e/Ren+King+%28they_he%29.jpg PRUNIN - Ren King (they/he) Stage Directions Reader Ren King (they/he) is an theatre & television actor, singer, dancer, and director hailing from Lilburn, GA. Upon obtaining two Bachelor’s of Arts in Theatre and Advertising from the University of Georgia (‘19), Ren joined the North American Tour of PAW Patrol Live! The Great Pirate Adventure as Mayor Goodway, relocating to NYC in 2020, working mostly in play development. Past credits include: OFF BROADWAY: House of Telescopes (Waffles/Ens) with Pipeline Theatre Company; The Importance of Being Earnest (Miss Prism) with Gatehouse Entertainment & Write Act Rep. REGIONAL: Twelfth Night (Sebastian) and Romeo + Juliet Reading (Capulet) with Match:Lit Theatre Co.; fire work with National New Play Network and Queens Theatre. TV: BMF (Henri/Henrietta Andreas) on STARZ; And Just Like That - S2 (HBO) DIRECTORIAL: FADE with Exit Left Theatre Company in Holland, Michigan. Ren King is currently represented by the Alexander White Agency and managed by 5x Media. AEA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7d6d9a38-36c0-4da0-a1a7-452b153ee3a9/Aja+Lynn+Downing+%28she_her%29.jpg PRUNIN - Aja Lynn Downing (she/her) BILINDA Aja Downing (The Stranger) is super excited to be a part of this project. Aja graduated from The American Musical Arts Academy in 2016. Some of Aja's previous roles were Annette in TJ LOVES SALLY 4 EVA, Lorrell in DREAMGIRLS, Jojo in CHERCHEZ LA FEMME, Cassandra in ALEX AND EUGENE, Christine Daè in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Aida in AIDA, and Ella Baker in BAYARD: A NEW MUSICAL. Aja would like to thank her family for all their support and love! And also, thanks to the incredible cast and crew of this project! Aja is forever grateful to be expanding as a person and artist and is excited to see where this journey takes her next! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c10a746d-8967-4790-8a7d-c43d2820d751/fatima+jamal.jpg PRUNIN - fatima jamal ALPHA fatima jamal is black trans* study enfleshed finding breath where there is asphyxiation and dooming forces polluting the air. what she does with words and images is prayer and hope towards freedom, on the shores of nonhumanness and fugitivity, from this dying world. she/spirit is writing to die and live (again). she is also the WRITER/DIRECTOR of the forthcoming film No Fats, No Femmes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/6764e908-7db5-4286-a257-4d049406f0ed/Javon+Q.+Minter+%28they_she%29.jpg PRUNIN - Javon Q. Minter (they/she) ENSEMBLE Javon Q. Minter (they/she) is a theatre artist and educator, born & raised in pre-gentrified Bed-Stuy. As a director, they’ve devised works for MCC’s youth company, New York Theatre Workshop’s Youth Artistic Instigators & NYU Grad Acting, developed a new musical with the 5th Avenue Theater and served as SDCF Directing Observer to director Trip Cullman for Classic Stage Company’s I Can Get It For You Wholesale. As an educator, Javon has taught theatre to all ages, across New York State and regionally. She is a member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers and teaching artist with New York Theatre Workshop. Select acting credits: What to Send Up When it Goes Down (BAM & Playwrights Horizons), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), boys don’t look at boys (New York Stage & Film), and what will happen to all that beauty (Playwrights Realm). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/985a59f1-5530-47e4-b38a-bb2c9a3c867c/Jennifer+Nikki+Kidwell+%28she_they%29.jpg PRUNIN - Jennifer Nikki Kidwell (she/they) 78/VOICE Jenn Kidwell is a performing artist. Most recently seen in: The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company); soon seen doing: we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism (UTR at The Flea Theater). Original projects include: Underground Railroad Game & Those With 2 Clocks; past productions include: Geoff Sobelle’s Home, Adrienne Truscott’s Still Asking for It: A Rape About Comedy (Joe’s Pub). Grateful to/for: 2013 TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship, 2015 Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant, 2016 Pew Fellowship, 2017 Independence Fellowship, 2020 Ruthie Award & Hodder Fund Grant, 2023 FCA grantee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/160b153d-1b61-4755-bec9-6038d41d54bb/Mariyea+%28She_Her%29+%281%29.jpeg PRUNIN - Mariyea (she/her) ENSEMBLE Mariyea, is a Brooklyn based actress, performer, teacher and award-winning nightlife entertainer. Her previous credits include Vile Isle, at the Tank, Fabulation, at The Billie Holiday Theatre and On Sugarland, at New York Theatre Workshop. Along with works presented at Soho Rep, The Shed, Park Avenue Armory, NYSAF and Joe's Pub among others. Soon she can be seen in a feature film soonMar to be announced on Paramount +. Mariyea is also the current reigning Breakthrough Artist of the Year through the NYC Nightlife Glam Awards. In addition to her performance work, Mariyea has taught as an adjunct professor at The City College of New York and classes at NYU Tisch. Follow Mariyea on Instagram: @mariyeaaaa for further updates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/effbfadc-5c9e-463e-87aa-62f61ded7295/Starr+Kirkland+%28she_they%29.jpg PRUNIN - Starr Kirkland (she/they) ENSEMBLE Starr Kirkland credits include The Cotillion (New Georges/The Movement Theatre Company), Crying on Television (Everyman Theatre), Ink’dWell (NLTP/59E59), Black Feminist Video Game (59E59/CTG/OSF), Zoetrope (Exquisite Corpse Co), TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever (JACK), Tight Five ((New Ambassadors Theatre/Cherry Lane), of the woman… (Normal Ave), HOTTENTOTTED (The Tank), Hephaestus (Theatre in Asylum) and an extensive play development and performance history you can read more about at www.starrkirkland.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7d3806d2-0526-4eed-ad29-0a095a3baec6/Temidayo+Amay+%28them%29.png PRUNIN - Temidayo Amay (them) DEZ Temidayo Amay (them) is a Black Trans Non-Binary writer, actor, singer, and queer activist. OFF-BROADWAY: Classic Stage Company; MCC Theater; Classical Theatre of Harlem; The Public Theatre; Ars Nova; Clubbed Thumb; Target Margin. REGIONAL: Round House Theatre: School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play (Helen Hayes Award: winner); Signature Theatre: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Arena Stage; The Kennedy Center; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Longacre Lea: The Interstellar Ghost Hour (Helen Hayes Award: nominated). Temidayo is currently writing Bell’e: The Musical; Pool, Part One: An American Fantasia. AFFILIATES: BTB New Works Playwright, MAESTRA Mentee, TPOC Fellow, MTF Musicals Fellow. temidayoamay.com https://www.btb-nyc.com/donate daily 0.75 2024-10-19 https://www.btb-nyc.com/harvesting-olives daily 0.75 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/6fe61cd9-3cec-4d00-8f62-d294ba7ae0ac/Yaffa+AS+%28they_she%29.jpg HARVESTING OLIVES - Yaffa AS (they/she) Writer and Performer Mx. Yaffa (they/she) is an acclaimed disabled, autistic, trans, queer, Muslim, and indigenous Palestinian. Yaffa is the executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) and has received multiple awards for their transformative work around displacement, decolonization, equity, and centering the lived experiences of individuals most impacted by injustice. Yaffa is an engineer, peer support specialist, death doula, birthing doula, and yoga teacher. Yaffa is the author of “Blood Orange”, a poetry collection about displacement, colonization, and hope building, the editor "Inara: light of Utopia," about the current genocide and a free Falasteen, and “desecrated poppies” are out now. Their newest collection of essays "whispers beneath the orange groves" is out now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2a2983c9-3d25-467a-a07d-48310d1247e1/Rad+Pereira+%28they_them%29.png HARVESTING OLIVES - Rad Pereira (they/them) Director Rad Pereira (they/them) is a queer trans (im)migrant cultural worker building consciousness between healing justice, system change, reindigenization and queer futures currently based between Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) and Haudenosaunee territory (upstate NY). Their work has been experienced on stages, screens, stoops, swamps and sidewalks all over Turtle Island through the support of many communities and organizations. They are Director of Engagement & Impact at NY Stage & Film. They are co-founder of Iron Path Farm & Arts. Their book Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, By Those Who Lived It is available through New Village Press. They are a proud board member of Superhero Clubhouse. Co-founder of You Are Here. They are on the co-leadership team at Network of Ensemble Theaters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9e723e58-6fec-47bf-aa5a-457c46dbdbaa/Trierweiler.Bailey.jpg HARVESTING OLIVES - Bailey Trierweiler (he/him) Sound Designer Bailey Trierweiler (he/him) is a New York based sound designer, editor, engineer and mixer for live theater performance, installation, dance and audio drama. Select design credits include Blood of the Lamb (59E59); Riverside (Indy Shakes); Dangerous Days (Miami New Drama); The Slow Dance (59E59); Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf Theatre); already there (The REACH at the Kennedy Center), among others. Select associate sound designer for The Blood Quilt (Lincoln Center Theatre); Valour: A Drag Spectacular (La Jolla Playhouse); The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Co); KATE (Connelly Theater); The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre Company); Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center Theatre); King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Peerless (59E59) among others. M.F.A - Yale School of Drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a0d10f38-76ef-4dda-8e3a-a2f4e09da037/Bea+Perez-Arche+%28she_they%29+%281%29.jpg HARVESTING OLIVES - Bea Perez-Arche (she/they) Stage Manager Bea Perez-Arche (she/they) is a Cuban American theatre artist focused on creating community through her work in the arts. She has primarily worked at the Public Theater on Shakespeare in the Park, the Under the Radar Festival, and the Public Shakespeare Initiative. She is an Associate Artist at Sanguine Theatre Company and has collaborated with a range of institutions including The Flea, The Civilians, Tectonic Theater Project, One Whale’s Tale, Women’s Project, La Mama, Little Island, Chelsea Factory, and Ballet Collective. She received her BFA in Theater Arts from Boston University and currently freelances as a stage manager, director, and dramaturg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/47c4159a-c178-4525-b4b5-83a24a5bd7ae/Sara+Rami%CC%81rez+%28they_them%29+%282%29.jpg HARVESTING OLIVES - Sara Ramirez (they/them) Co-Producer Tony Award© winner Sara Ramírez 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: SVU, Madam Secretary, And Just Like That, and animated series Sofia the First. Sara graduated from Juilliard’s Drama Division 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. Most recently they co-produced Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink at Rattlestick Theater Co. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a7bfa678-b411-4d2a-a653-060699c2e57a/Zoey+Walker+%28They_Them%29.jpeg HARVESTING OLIVES - Zoey Walker (they/them) ASL Interpreter Zoey Walker is a gender fluid creative originally from Reno, Nevada. They are an alumni of Gallaudet University and are passionate about authentic representation and storytelling. In their free time, they love doing improv, making films, and they have an improv based podcast coming out soon! https://www.btb-nyc.com/fireside-dances daily 0.75 2024-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/bf41ce23-61a4-4ad4-a5a3-41e2ff834d57/MJ+Kaufman+%28he_they%29.jpeg FIRESIDE DANCES - MJ Kaufman (he/they) Writer MJ Kaufman’s plays have been seen at The Mark Taper Forum, The Public Theater, WP Theater, NAATCO, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and theatres and schools around the country as well as in Russian in Moscow and in Australia. MJ has received the Helen Merrill Emerging Writers Award and residencies at the New Museum, MacDowell Colony, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. They are currently a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of Colt Coeur Theater Company. MJ co- founded Trans Lab Fellowship, a program to support emerging transgender theater artists. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/652b970e-8e5a-459c-a4e2-69a2938e20ff/Headshots_Bios+-+Google+Drive.jpg FIRESIDE DANCES - Aya Ogawa Director Aya Ogawa is an award-winning theater-maker. They received an Obie Award for writing, directing and conceiving The Nosebleed (Productions: Japan Society; Chocolate Factory; Lincoln Center Theater; Woolly Mammoth. Tour: Walker Art Center; REDCAT; Wexner Center for the Arts). They directed Haruna Lee’s Obie Award-winning Suicide Forest (The Bushwick Starr; Ma-Yi). This season they will be developing a new play titled Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood. Select awards: Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting; Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award; The Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight National Residency; Commission; Resident playwright, New Dramatists; MacDowell Fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/cad0c818-d44a-4a32-81b0-e4d318df3c03/Angie+Salazar+%28She_They%29.jpg FIRESIDE DANCES - Angie Salazar (she/they) Stage Manager Angie Salazar is a returning stage manager to BTB after have worked on Moon Bear and POOL (23’). Recently have been a Production Assistant on development workshops for The Interestings, ALI, and SMASH. Volunteered with Broadway Cares with Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip! and Red Bucket Follies 23’. Regional experience includes a Stage Management Apprenticeship at Denver Center for Performing Arts (22’-23’) and Assistant Props for the National Tour of Cats (21’-22’). Bachelor's from the University of Michigan. Associate's from Mesa Community College. She thanks their chosen family and friends for supporting publicly living their queer truth this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1e8125e6-2ee3-465f-bc2a-e2e4c3163b9c/IMG_7359+%282%29.jpg FIRESIDE DANCES - Christopher Darbassie (Select Credits): The Counter (Roundabout), Almost There (Audible @ Minetta Lane), Table 17 (MCC), Six Characters (LCT3), Apiary, Camp Siegfried (2nd Stage) Antiquities, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons), Grangeville, A Bright New Boise, A Case for the Existence of God (Signature Theater), Uncle Vanya (O’Henry Productions), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane Theater), Fly Away (Petzel Gallery), Black Exhibition (The Bushwick Starr). Chris has designed for art installations, radio plays, and devised works in collaboration with The National Black Theater, The Public, Ars Nova, and more. www.darbassiedesign.com | Free Palestine | Free Congo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8daefcb1-fdeb-40a9-a074-850f711bd2ae/Colin+Buckingham+%28He_they%29.jpg FIRESIDE DANCES - Colin Buckingham (He/they) Stage Directions Reader Colin is a writer, actor, and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. His goal as a storyteller is to make projects that reflect the intersectional nature of disability and create opportunities for historically excluded, disenfranchised and systemically targeted people. Originally from Washington, DC, he got his start in writing through choreographing action and stunt co-ordinating on multiple plays, indie films and webseries. He wrote, choreographed, produced and acted in the short film November Ninth‘. He was a disability and dwarfism consultant for Tomorrow’s Today and another project TBA. He recently started his own production company, “Chromatic Lens”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/60e557d2-d55e-47df-bfa6-c89a6508d24a/Blair+Baker+%28they_them%29.jpg FIRESIDE DANCES - Blair Baker (they/them) GRETA / Caveman 3 / EMILY Blair Baker (they/them) is an actor, director, and writer. Theatre: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Center Theatre Group), The Play That Goes Wrong (First National Tour, Off-Broadway), Smart (W.H.A.T.), The Slow Dance (59e59), The Humans (Broadway, Roundabout Theatre Company), Goldie, Max & Milk (59e59), Oleanna (Broadway, Mark Taper Forum, Bristol Riverside Theater), title role in Hvmlet (SheNYC). TV/Film: The Perfect Couple, Bull, Ghosts of Christmas Always (Hallmark) Billions, Blue Bloods, Harlem. www.blairbaker.info https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/79f979f4-16a7-44fb-beb5-bf7dd3f48156/Colleen+Litchfield+%28she_they%29.jpg FIRESIDE DANCES - Colleen Litchfield (she/they) EM / Caveman 1 / Teenage Girl Colleen Litchfield (she/they) was last seen opposite Tony nominee Betsy Aidem in The Ask at wild project, and recently made their Broadway debut originating the role of Hanna in Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt (Tony Award for Best Play). Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. TV: The Crowded Room on Apple TV+. Training: BFA NYU Tisch, RADA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/17ff1b4b-a668-4fc5-b316-0071770a7373/Drae+Campbell+%28she_they%29.jpeg FIRESIDE DANCES - Drae Campbell (she/they) NURSE / Caveman 4 / CAROLYN / Boar Drae Campbell. Theater: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theater & National Tour, Lortel Nominated), Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Teatro Circulo), My Old Man (Dixon Place), Storm.Still (DirectorFest, Drama League), La Cage Aux Folles (Barrington Stage Company). Film and TV: Senior Escort Service, Blunderpuss, It’s Very Common, TOW Bull, New Amsterdam. Host/curator of TELL, a live queer storytelling show that is also an award winning podcast on all the platforms. BFA, The University Of The Arts. @draebiz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7b4c1126-228c-4c04-a602-bc1a235a4a4d/Karoline+%28they_them%29.jpg FIRESIDE DANCES - Karoline (they/them) ANNIE / CAVEMAN 5 / KATE Karoline is an actor and writer who goes by a mononym. Their credits onstage include Tom Stoppard’s THE HARD PROBLEM at Lincoln Center, [VEIL WIDOW CONSPIRACY] at NYTW, and EXCLUSION at Arena Stage, directed by Trip Cullman. Onscreen, they can currently be seen in the Hulu series DEATH AND OTHER DETAILS in a season-long recurring arc, and in A24's A DIFFERENT MAN. As a writer, their short film PIPPI traveled the festival circuit to acclaim and is currently on a two year distribution deal. They live in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2b2772d8-df02-4fa9-ac18-9fe9f8322c20/Zo+Tipp+%28they_them%29.jpeg FIRESIDE DANCES - Zo Tipp (they/them) KAITLYN / Caveman 2 / Little Girl / SARA Zo Tipp (they/them) is a Jewish Japanese American performer. TV: Only Murders in the Building, American Horror Story, Dickinson. NY Theater credits include INTAR, Playwrights Horizons, Pan Asian Rep, Cherry Lane, CSC/OSF Play On! Fest, Redbull, Rattlestick. Workshops at Roundabout Theater, NYTW, Playwrights Realm, Pride Plays, The Actors Fund, and more. Independent film and webseries appearances screened at Newfest and Outfest. Narrator work for The New Yorker and New York Mag on Apple News. www.zotipp.com https://www.btb-nyc.com/lupe daily 0.75 2024-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f398f8d0-d9b6-4985-bfba-3626397c8959/775D0D7A-59BC-4DD8-8857-0BF4D88D2A1B_VSCO.jpeg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel (she/they) Writer Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel (she/they) is a trans Guatemalan artist, born in Guatemala City and raised in Norwalk, CT. Her works are spiritual and physically adventurous journeys that give Queer BIPOC voices a space to interrogate core wounds and find a path towards healing. Esperanza is the recipient of the Paul Greene Award from the National Theatre Conference, the Kennedy Center's Latinx Playwriting Award, as well as a Relentless Award Honorable Mention for their play Color Boy. Her play Lupe Finds Me in the Garden of Dreams is a finalist for the Leah Ryan Prize, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Van Lier Fellowship, and was developed through NYTW’s 2024 Dartmouth Residency. She is a two-time nominee for the Ollie Award, as well as a Weissberger New Play Award. Currently, Esperanza is a teaching artist for the Public Theater, and a Lecturer in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. BA: Princeton, MFA: Yale https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/20ea5bdb-7990-4739-b780-e863e89e5f46/Walker_Adin_image.jpeg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Adin Walker (they/them) Director Adin Walker (they/them) is a frequent collaborator with the dance, puppetry and climate-justice focused Phantom Limb Company, whose production Falling Out about the 2011 tsunami and radiation disaster in Fukushima premiered in BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Walker recently directed the world premieres of Yilong Liu’s PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute (New Conservatory Theater Center) and Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s Data Queen (Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival), both in SF. Other directing includes the NYC premiere of Roger Q. Mason’s The White Dress (NYC) and regional productions of L M Feldman’s Grace, or the Art of Climbing and Allison Gregory’s Not Medea. Walker is currently in residence at Stanford in Performance Studies, and has published essays in the journals TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Theatre Topics, and New Review of Film and Television Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/827a5d22-6a8e-43de-9d11-30a0f17ebd27/ajb+headshot.jpg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - abigail jean-baptiste Dramaturg abigail jean-baptiste is a theater maker born & based in New York City with roots in Haiti and the American South. guided by questions around blackness, femininity, and kinship, their work uses fragmented language, repeatable gestures, and found objects in a search to build nonsensical ways of being. 2023-24 BOLD Resident Director (Northern Stage, Vermont), FY2023 NYSCA Grantee, Cycle 9 Audrey Resident (New Georges), 2023 JACK Radical Acts Artist, I AM SOUL Directing Residency (National Black Theater), 2021 Project Number One Artist (Soho Rep.), 2021 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Playwright, Roundabout Directors Group Cohort 2, 2018 Lilly Award Winner. www.abigailjeanbaptiste.org @abigailrosejb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/9e723e58-6fec-47bf-aa5a-457c46dbdbaa/Trierweiler.Bailey.jpg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Bailey Trierweiler (he/him) Sound Designer Bailey Trierweiler (he/him) is a New York based sound designer, editor, engineer and mixer for live theater performance, installation, dance and audio drama. Select design credits include Blood of the Lamb (59E59); Riverside (Indy Shakes); Dangerous Days (Miami New Drama); The Slow Dance (59E59); Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf Theatre); already there (The REACH at the Kennedy Center), among others. Select associate sound designer for The Blood Quilt (Lincoln Center Theatre); Valour: A Drag Spectacular (La Jolla Playhouse); The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Co); KATE (Connelly Theater); The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre Company); Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center Theatre); King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Peerless (59E59) among others. M.F.A - Yale School of Drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e92932de-3ac1-4ed2-b964-536c052cbd42/Bea+Perez-Arche+%28she_they%29+%282%29.jpg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Bea Perez-Arche (she/they) Stage Manager/Assistant Director Bea Perez-Arche (she/they) is a Cuban American theatre artist focused on creating community through her work in the arts. She has primarily worked at the Public Theater on Shakespeare in the Park, the Under the Radar Festival, and the Public Shakespeare Initiative. She is an Associate Artist at Sanguine Theatre Company and has collaborated with a range of institutions including The Flea, The Civilians, Tectonic Theater Project, One Whale’s Tale, Women’s Project, La Mama, Little Island, Chelsea Factory, and Ballet Collective. She received her BFA in Theater Arts from Boston University and currently freelances as a stage manager, director, and dramaturg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f21e6d01-9379-460a-a2c2-c49a6d212096/JA2+%281%29.png LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Janice Amaya (they/them/elle) Stage Directions Reader JANICE AMAYA (they/them/elle) is an actor, theatermaker, and educator. Most recent theater credits: Orlando (Signature Theatre Company), Shhhh (Atlantic Theater Company), Mushroom (People’s Light Theater Company), Cartography (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts). Janice is a Co-Director at Pipeline Theatre Company in NYC. MFA, Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0d0e19de-7b85-4b8d-b880-55f470786796/ElizabethBarrett_HS.jpg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Elizabeth Barrett (they/them) Design Consultant Elizabeth Barrett is a projection and media designer based in Brooklyn. They are passionate about new work development and highly collaborative processes. They hold an MFA in theatrical design from The University of California San Diego. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/899903ba-bae7-4228-ac6b-73e5e1f99fab/Hannah+Tran+%28She_They%29.png LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Hannah Tran (she/they) Design Consultant Hannah Tran is a Brooklyn-based projection designer with a passion for new works and movement. With community at the root of her work, she strives to push for accessibility in the arts. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, her love for storytelling started by watching dubbed Chinese dramas with her grandmother. Hannah holds a BA from the University of California, Irvine and MFA from the Yale School of Drama. https://hannah-tran.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/cdf82383-7827-4df9-81de-83e4e68449a5/Clew.jpg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Clew (they/them) ANNA MAY clew is a Brooklyn-based actor. They are invested in transformational change, loving truth, and fostering radical joy within their communities. Privileged to return to Breaking the Binary festival this year, clew believes in the artist's role to inspire action, grow capacity for curiosity, and agitate/upend dominant power structures. Through active struggle with creativity, we can envision & create a more delightful world for all. clew stands in solidarity with oppressed peoples fighting for freedom and justice across the globe. Free Palestine, Sudan, Congo, and Haiti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3e51d25d-eb78-46f1-8c8a-99344b1adfc9/Marquise+Vilso%CC%81n+%28HeHim%29.jpeg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Marquise Vilsón (he/him) GARY COOPER Marquise Vilsón is a New York Native, actor and man of trans experience. Recently he was cast as “DUCK” in The Lost Holliday starring side Vivica A. Fox and Jussie Smollett, which is currently playing at select AMC movie theaters across the U.S. Marquise was first introduced to TV audiences as a guest-star in the critically acclaimed episode of LAW & ORDER: SVU, titled Service, addressing the issues faced by transgender military service members. Vilsón’s other TV credits include TOM SWIFT (series regular), QUANTUM LEAP, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (recurring), BULL, THE BLACKLIST, TALES OF THE CITY and BLINDSPOT (recurring). Vilsón’s Film Credits include THE KITCHEN, BEN IS BACK and B-BOY BLUES. Marquise made his New York stage debut Off-Broadway as Beta in MCC Theatre’s CHARM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7133a8c0-5f3f-48cb-8998-2b2fdc727c16/laPerdida2024.jpg LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS - Samora la Perdida (she/they) ESTRELLA/LUPE Samora la Perdida (she/they) is a 2024 Princess Grace Award winner, and YoungArts Fellow. She just wrapped production on QUEENS OF THE DEAD, alongside Dominique Jackson, Jacquel Spivey, and Margaret Cho. She starred in Soho Rep's NOTES ON KILLING..., Quiara Alegría Hudes' MY BROKEN LANGUAGE at Signature Theatre, along with A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL at the Mark Taper Forum. Her TEDxTalk, DO LATINES NEED TO SPEAK SPANISH? FINDING YOUR LOST MOTHER TONGUE, features music from her upcoming bilingual musical: SPANGLISH SH!T. SPANGLISH SH!T has been developed with Berkeley Rep, NYSCA, Baryshnikov Arts Center and En Garde Arts. https://www.btb-nyc.com/rare-bird daily 0.75 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0805aec8-b3bc-4d4a-aefe-76d3e4d90254/Zaza+Diana+Oh+%28they_them%29.jpg A RARE BIRD - Zaza Diana Oh (they/them) Writer, Director, and Performer Zaza Diana Oh (they/them) is an Interdisciplinary Writer, Performer, Actor, Singer/Songwriter, Sonic Ritualist, DJ, and Creator of {my lingerie play} (10 underground performance installations in my lingerie, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, TOW Fellow, Venturous Capital Fellow, NY Times Critics Pick), Infinite Love Party (An Intentional Barefoot Potluck, Dance Party, and Sleepover for QTBiPOC & Their Allies, Bushwick Starr, NY Times Critics Pick), CLAIRVOYANCE (A Concert, Installation & Tree Planting Series celebrating Queer Magic, A.R.T.), OH FAMILY CONCERT (Documentary avail on All Arts TV & PBS), The Gift Project (Film & Concert series celebrating Elders of Marginalized Experience, Symphony Space, All-For-One), My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre (Various, The Public EWG), Depression Box (upcoming), The Dope North Star Workshop, Art Chxrch (an underground binaural beat brain massage & somatic dance party for creatives and introverts). Oh is the Recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwright Award, Susan Steinberg Playwright Award, United States Artists Fellowship for Theatre, Sundance Institute Fellowship, Van Lier Fellowship in Acting, A.R.T. Artist in Community Residency. Oh is a 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival Playwright-in-Residence and is a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ+ Influencer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/5c8c3a39-c52c-481d-b67e-f3d335837a8b/Might_Headshot+2+%281%29.jpeg A RARE BIRD - Alex Might (she/her) Intimacy Director Broadway: POTUS. Select Off-Broadway and Regional: How to Defend Yourself (NYTW), In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons), RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Wolves (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Fight Call (Breaking the Binary), backstroke boys (Fault Line), TWITCH (Williamstown), The Scarlet Letter (Two River). www.alexmight.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/14118de8-baf4-4b40-b72d-92332575324b/IMG_7359+%281%29.jpg A RARE BIRD - Christopher Darbassie Sound Designer (Select Credits): The Counter (Roundabout), Almost There (Audible @ Minetta Lane), Table 17 (MCC), Six Characters (LCT3), Apiary, Camp Siegfried (2nd Stage) Antiquities, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons), Grangeville, A Bright New Boise, A Case for the Existence of God (Signature Theater), Uncle Vanya (O’Henry Productions), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane Theater), Fly Away (Petzel Gallery), Black Exhibition (The Bushwick Starr). Chris has designed for art installations, radio plays, and devised works in collaboration with The National Black Theater, The Public, Ars Nova, and more. www.darbassiedesign.com | Free Palestine | Free Congo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fb903e2a-8f72-49f1-8a3b-426fa6e32d27/MZaya+Headshot+%281%29.png A RARE BIRD - Michi Zaya (any pronouns) Assistant Director/Acting Coach Michi Zaya (any pronoun) is a Mongolian storyteller of all trades, based in Brooklyn. Michi’s work can be seen on stage as a performer/actor, projections designer, and director. Her primary interests are in experimentally bold and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable presentations of art. Recent and upcoming collaborations include: The Public Theater and Brooklyn College, CHUANG Stage (Boston), Columbia University, The New School, Hunter College, NYU Tisch, and many wonderful artists in her community of LQBTQ+, immigrant or international, and brave humans. Michi has a precious black cat named Hobie, he is Michi’s whole world. Website: michizaya.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a6c6e08e-8078-4409-8188-3234e3402a83/Shannon+Yu+headshot+%281%29.jpg A RARE BIRD - Shannon Yu 余香儒 (sha/shas) Assistant Director/Movement Coach Shannon Yu 余香儒(sha/shas) is a Brooklyn, New York based artist from Taiwan. Sha holds an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute. Shannon identifies as a dancer-choreographer and queer-creator. Shannon practices Breaking, Hip Hop, Contemporary floorwork, and Wing Tsun Martial Arts. Shannon is the founder and Artistic Director of multimedia dance company SHA Creative Outlet. Shannon has shown work in Judson Memorial Church, Arts On Site, Triskelion Arts, Abrons Arts Center, The Landmark Loew's Theater, and the Center at West Park. Shannon was named 2023 Asian American Arts Alliance’s Jadin Wong Fellow for Dance, and 2024 BanDung residency fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ad15351e-a7b8-4481-b44f-13d518ed4b44/meng1+%281%29.jpeg A RARE BIRD - Akane Little (they/them) GABRIEL Akane is a movement & body-based artist entering performance as an altar for channeling new worlds. They started off in competition dance in a small-town studio in Mississippi, and have since studied under Alysia Ramos at Oberlin College, and freelanced in both Cleveland, OH and New York. Their favorite recent collaborations have been with God Complex x Aeon Andreas and LEIMAY. They currently train and perform with LEIMAY under the direction of Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a6ed31d8-5431-4828-9bbb-0816e19b2763/MeiAnnTeoDirHeadshot.jpeg A RARE BIRD - Mei Ann Teo (they/them) VOICE Mei Ann Teo (they/them) is a theatre maker 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. Previous collaborations with Zaza include Dramaturg on My Lingerie Play at Rattlestick, Love Doctor & the role that sang/twerked/collected$$ with a bucket in Clairvoyance at American Repertory Theatre. They are an artistic leader at Ping Chong and Company. https://www.btb-nyc.com/dare daily 0.75 2024-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/6f9251ea-d815-4f53-aa5c-092ec44ab91a/her%29.jpg // DARE - L Morgan Lee (she/her) Co-Conceiver/Director L Morgan Lee (she/her) is a Tony Award® nominated actress and storyteller known for her history-making turn in A Strange Loop on Broadway - a performance which also garnered her an Antonyo Award and a Drama League Distinguished Performance nomination. In London, she was seen playing artist Lili Elbe in a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl (currently in development). Other work includes well over a decade of Off-Broadway, Regional, International/National tours and concerts with artists from Paul McCartney to Our Lady J. In the studio, L Morgan was the voice of Ornate Williams in the Sugar Maple Series w. Fred Savage (Osiris Media) and can be found on Joe Iconis' album (Ghostlight Records), The Rainbow Lullaby Album (Broadway Records), and more. For more: @lmorganlee | lmorganlee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2a25677d-4c3c-47a2-9c76-06a09fd25b11/Screen+Shot+2024-09-21+at+4.12.22+PM.png // DARE - George Strus (they/them) Co-Conceiver George Strus (they/them) is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning trans non-binary Latiné producer and dramaturg. They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre: an Obie Award-winning new work development and community building hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2s+) theatermakers. Since the organization’s launch in July of 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre has paid out over $500,000 to over 400 TNB2S+ artists. Commercially, they were a proud co-producer of HERE WE ARE and ILLINOISE (2024 Tony Nomination). Current co-producing credits include OH, MARY!, THE ROOMMATE, ROMEO + JULIET. Upcoming co-producing credits ALL IN, and THE LAST FIVE YEARS. They were awarded the 2024 Prince Fellowship (in association with Columbia University School of the Arts), receiving mentorship from Kristin Caskey, Sue Frost, Jeffrey Seller, Thomas Schumacher, and David Stone. www.georgestrus.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d7103e0a-7c2c-4c5d-a0dd-cb8fe4850823/IMG_4621.jpg // DARE - D.A. Mindell Writer D.A. Mindell is a playwright and educator based in Manhattan. He is a third-year MFA candidate at Columbia University. His objective with his work is to cultivate a canon of niche and incisive work in which trans artists can find as much breadth and depth of opportunity as cis artists have enjoyed for centuries. Recent recognition includes the 2024 Judith Champion reading series at Second Stage and the 2024 Fair Play Initiative Commission through Florida Atlantic University's TheatreLab. Educational work includes Mythik Camps, the Alliance Theatre, and SOJOURN. When not writing, he enjoys baking, embroidering, horror movies, and his dog, Birdie (named after Bertolt Brecht, with whom he shares a birthday). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/6a7f3eab-d909-4718-ad6b-8f4e13bec7a8/DYruegasHeadshot2.jpeg // DARE - Dillon Yruegas (he/él) Writer Dillon Yruegas (he/él) is a queer trans mixed coahuiltecan/xicano theatremaker from his ancestral lands in Central Texas. He holds both a BFA in Theatre and a BA in Spanish from Texas State University. On stage, off stage, and online, he has collaborated with theatre companies and cultural institutions across Turtle Island. He is a steering committee member of the Latinx Theatre Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f6645f0c-cb9d-4716-902a-25f00f5adb17/HEADSHOT+%281%29.jpg // DARE - Esmé Maria Ng (they/he/she) Esmé Maria Ng (they/he/she) is a queer, non-binary theater maker of Cantonese and Scottish descent who loves heartbreak and developing new plays. They have held artistic and producing positions at Manhattan Theatre Club, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Little Island. As a playwright, Esmé has been recognized as a Eugene O’Neill Finalist, a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow, a Playwrights Realm Fellowship Finalist, and the 2024 June Bingham New Playwright Commission Recipient. Currently, Esmé is a writer with bylines in American Theater Magazine and a fellow at The Tank NYC and Creative & Independent Producers Alliance. @esmemariang // esmemariang.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/34d021de-997c-4254-b225-1c88433210ba/IMG_4272.jpg // DARE - Ianne Fields Stewart (they/she) Writer Ianne Fields Stewart (they/she) is a multi-hyphenate creative working at the intersection of art, activism, and pleasure. Their work spans across many fields including: theatre, film, dance, creative writing, arts administration, and social justice. She is dedicated to creating art, facilitating spaces, and influencing organizational practices that allow Black queer and trans people to radically luxuriate in our own joy. To put it simply, she wants to make their people feel good. The 2022 toast honoree of The League of Professional Theatre Women, NY Audiences have recently seen Ianne performing at Lincoln Center with Sydnie L. Moseley Dances and as a company member with MOD Arts Dance Collective for the 23'-24' season. Concurrently, Ianne made their regional writing debut as the book writer for A Complicated Woman at Goodspeed Musicals in Spring 24'. Ianne can currently be seen in Sarah Mantell’s In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot at Playwrights Horizons (produced in association with Breaking the Binary Theatre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/76f94760-f210-47e8-9844-19b6ab62ef1f/IMG_9256.JPG // DARE - Imani Russell (they/them) Writer Imani Russell is a multi-hyphenate artist from Crown Heights, NY (Lenapehoking). Trained in classical music, musical theatre, and acting, Imani recently made their Broadway debut as Mel in "How to Dance in Ohio," a groundbreaking new musical. Imani has also performed off-Broadway, at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and is an emerging voice actor. As a writer, they explore the connections between time, space, family, queerness, and death-- and all the music and magic that lies within. For more info: www.imanirussell.com | @imanithecowboy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a34b266b-9028-4955-9421-ea86ca436b76/DSCF6218-2.jpg // DARE - Jayne Deely (they/them) Writer Jayne Deely (they/them) is a queer Puerto Rican playwright and performer from Queens, NY, writing about gray area, lingering Catholicism, and women’s basketball. 2024 O’Neill Finalist, Relentless Award Honorable Mention, La Jolla Latinx New Play Festival Selection, and Terrence McNally New Play Incubator Semi-Finalist, for I never asked for a gofundme. Jayne’s work has been developed with Fresh Ground Pepper, the New Harmony Project, KCACTF, American Stage, and Renaissance Theatreworks, among others. They are a recent recipient of an EST Alfred P. Sloan grant to write Lavender Dust, a new play about the James Webb Space Telescope. MFA Indiana University. Proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatists’ Guild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7d16dcdf-6306-41b1-9c56-7e3a88ead51c/JEN_SILVERMAN-26.jpg // DARE - Jen Silverman (they/them) Writer Jen Silverman (they/them) is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Plays include: The Roommate (Broadway: The Booth; Regionally: Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, etc); Highway Patrol (The Goodman); Spain (2ST); Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Woolly Mammoth, MCC, Southwark Playhouse London); The Moors (Yale Rep, The Playwrights Realm); and Witch (Writer’s Theatre, The Geffen). Books include: We Play Ourselves, The Island Dwellers, and There’s Going to be Trouble (Random House). Silverman has written on Tales of the City (Netflix) and Tokyo Vice (Max). Honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3e5d01bb-a066-46d8-b685-38c61b6c8923/Puckett_Jordan_Headshot_Portrait.jpg // DARE - Jordan Ramirez Puckett (they/them) Writer Jordan Ramirez Puckett (they/them) is a Chicanx writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Their plays include A Sapphic Family Christmas, Transitional Love Stories, Untitled Dad Play, Huelga, En Las Sombras, To Saints and Stars, A Driving Beat, Las Pajaritas, Restore, and Inevitable. These works have been produced and/or developed by Creede Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Intar Theatre, Playwrights Realm, San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, among others. Jordan was named a finalist for the 2022 Yale Drama Series Prize and is a 2024 graduate of the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c40e11f8-6ae8-4372-88f7-c34cc5dfa984/Mahapatra_headshot.jpg // DARE - Nikhil Mahapatra (any pronouns) Writer Nikhil Mahapatra is a silly little multi-disciplinary writer (so silly!). Also, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, O'Neill National Playwright's Conference Finalist, SPACE at Ryder Farm Creative Resident, Yaddo Resident, Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group, and a finalist for a bunch of other important-sounding stuff. Their work has been showcased at The Road Theatre, En Acte Arts, Buck's County Playhouse, The Brick, Gingold Theatrical Group, The Tank, The Wild Project and more. Latest theatrical works include Unfortunately, everyone will die..., BRIDGE PLAY, SWEETFISH!, American Hunger, CARNAL, Lost in the Fire, Bali Babes and an untold amount of other things of questionable quality. Other media includes the short film SPF (NYITFF), and select short stories and poems published in America and Singapore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e862c097-a187-47fb-ae10-0fe7756b878c/NBMonahan+Headshot+2024.jpg // DARE - Nora Brigid Monahan (she/they) Writer Nora Brigid Monahan (she/they) is a playwright and performer best known for creating and starring in the cult hit solo musical DIVA: LIVE FROM HELL (music & lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen), which has been performed around the world. Other produced works include the play Aunt Jack and a musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando (music & lyrics by Cynthia Saunders). As a performer, Nora has originated roles by Charles Busch, Ken Urban, and, most recently, Ianne Fields Stewart and Jonathan Brielle in the new musical A Complicated Woman at Goodspeed's Terris Theatre. Nora is grateful to become part of the BTB community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3f7ac3f5-1921-446d-8e91-c52f86ac82d0/SashaVelour.PhotoByTannerAbel.Greyscale.png // DARE - Sasha Velour (she/they) Writer Sasha Velour (she/they) is a critically-acclaimed drag queen, author, and artist. Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Co-Host of HBO's We're Here, and Founder of NYC drag revue NightGowns, which has been running since 2015 and this year raised over $30,000 for direct mutual aid. Her first one queen theater show, Smoke & Mirrors (2019-2022) combined drag with signature high-concept video art and reached over 100,000 people across four continents. In 2023, she published her best-selling first book The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag (Harper) which explores the history and philosophy of drag through personal stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3d831324-b225-4f03-95e9-4a6dc1c25bb6/SophieSagan-Gutherz.jpg // DARE - Sophie Sagan-Gutherz (they/them) Writer Sophie Sagan-Gutherz (they/them) is an artist who schleps around NYC occasionally donning a butterfly-covered cane. They often write about the body’s relationship to being physically disabled and trans, the five boyfriends they had in seventh grade, and the magical woods of Massachusetts. Their first screenplay POSSUM (writer/actor/producer) is a Hollyshorts Screenplay Quarterfinalist, audience award winner at its World Premiere in the queer horror block (Final Girls Berlin), and is currently on the international festival circuit. They've been a finalist for a lot of playwriting groups you’ve heard of, are a DisabilityBelongs Entertainment Lab Fellow and the Secretary of their Block Association. sophiesagangutherz.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1e8125e6-2ee3-465f-bc2a-e2e4c3163b9c/IMG_7359+%282%29.jpg // DARE - Christopher Darbassie Sound Designer (Select Credits): The Counter (Roundabout), Almost There (Audible @ Minetta Lane), Table 17 (MCC), Six Characters (LCT3), Apiary, Camp Siegfried (2nd Stage) Antiquities, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons), Grangeville, A Bright New Boise, A Case for the Existence of God (Signature Theater), Uncle Vanya (O’Henry Productions), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane Theater), Fly Away (Petzel Gallery), Black Exhibition (The Bushwick Starr). Chris has designed for art installations, radio plays, and devised works in collaboration with The National Black Theater, The Public, Ars Nova, and more. www.darbassiedesign.com | Free Palestine | Free Congo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d386e83a-8c18-418e-a8a4-c8b768efcda3/Rachel+April+%28they_them%29.png // DARE - Rachel Denise April (they/them) Stage Manager Rachel Denise April (they/them) is a Guyanese-American Stage Manager, who has studied Theatrical Design and Stage Management at the City College of New York. Select Credits include: Jordans (The Public Theater), The Mood Room (Big Dance Theater) Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group), soft (MCC) Chicken and Biscuits (Queens Theatre), The Baby Monitor (Different Translation), The Big Green Theater Festival (SuperHero Playhouse) The Hole (Zhailon Levingston), Neptune (Timothy DuWhite), , Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (MTWorks), and The Fire This Time Festival 2015 (The Kraine Theater). They have worked on projects throughout the United States and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/4e27d6bd-c431-4fb1-bb76-d09e863b8245/SC-2+%281%29.jpeg // DARE - Sagan Chen Stage Directions Reader Sagan Chen is a queer genderfluid Chinese American artist who centers their work on highlighting underrepresented new narratives. He strives for his artistry to reflect social responsibility and pursue liberation for all. Recently onstage: Isabel (NAATCO), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (BTB, Clubbed Thumb), Happy Life (The Hearth at Soho Rep), Fight Call (Breaking the Binary at The Public), Two Mile Hollow (Yale). Onscreen: Survival of the Thickest (Netflix/A24), Grand Crew (NBC), High Maintenance (HBO), This Really Happened (Tribeca), Girl Talk (Outfest). Audio: Audible Original The 126 Year Old Artist, multiple audiobooks. He has directed in NY and Dartmouth College. Sagan is currently seeking representation. Follow them on Instagram: @sagan.chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e3689e54-6166-467c-a3be-3d084a5a3a34/b_5.jpg // DARE - b (they/them) Performer b acts. They are a gender deviant. b was born and raised in Fresno, CA, but is based in NYC. When they aren’t onstage or on screen, b is boxing, biking, sleeping, or eating at ur local vegan restaurant. TV: YOU (Netflix), THE TERROR (AMC), WECRASHED (Apple TV+), LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Showtime), STATION 19 (ABC). Off-Broadway includes TOROS (2ST; HOLA Award), AMERICAN (TELE)VISIONS (NYTW), BODIES THEY RITUAL (Clubbed Thumb), SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Tectonic), and many others. b has also done hella narrative podcasts including co-executive producing and starring in BIRDS OF EMPIRE (QCODE). b is a graduate of The Juilliard School. @b_intheworld. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f17e5a50-56b0-47e0-8bb7-1b669734c011/Brigette+Lundy-Paine+HS+2024+%281%29.jpg // DARE - Brigette Lundy-Paine Performer Brigette Lundy-Paine is an actor known for playing Casey Gardner in the Netflix original series “Atypical” and Maddie in Jane Schoenbrun’s I SAW THE TV GLOW. in 2022, Brigette starred in the surrealist horror film AMELIA’S CHILDREN directed by Gabriel Abrantes. In 2019, Brigette played Megyn Kelly’s frightened assistant in BOMBSHELL (Jay Roach) and in 2020 played Billie Logan, Ted's Kid, in the third installment of the BILL & TED trilogy, BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC. Brigette is the creative director of Waif Magazine, an absurdist art and fashion publication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1edb13af-54a0-49f2-8197-8693910d80e3/CCH-47+%281%29.jpg // DARE - Carl Clemons-Hopkins (they/he) Performer Carl Clemons-Hopkins gained national popularity with their breakout performance as “Marcus” on MAX’s hit comedy series, “Hacks”. Carl’s portrayal earned them an Emmy Nomination in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2021. Season three of the acclaimed series received the 2024 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Film credits include Monkeypaw Production’s “Candyman,” and Carl’s television credits include NBC’s “Chicago Med,” and “Chicago P.D.,” Showtime’s “The Chi,” as well as Paramount Animations “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” On stage, Carl performed in the Chicago production of Hamilton as Aaron Burr and George Washington and made their Steppenwolf Theatre premiere in “…Mizz Martha”. www.carlclemonshopkins.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/6a9612ff-039d-48b3-8c6b-b0c3ef28244e/Che+Headshot.pdf.png // DARE - Che Kabia (they/them/theirs) Performer Che Kabia is thrilled to be apart of the Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival! Che is a New York and New Jersey based Actor, Dramaturg, Poet, and Technician. Currently they are a Resident Actor at Mercury Store located in Gowanus. Their recent credits include (U/S) King Edward IV & King Henry VII in Richard III (Soho Shakespeare Company), Freddy in Crooked Parts (Fresh Soil Arts Collective), and Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare). Che received their BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f1e8d837-c352-44a9-a2b7-fd2e57bdcaa3/2022-02-13_JOSLYN_DEFREECE_STUDIO_JV_0016+%281%29.jpg // DARE - Joslyn Defreece (she/her) Performer Joslyn DeFreece is a New York City-based actor, writer, and producer, known for her dynamic performances and storytelling. A dedicated alum of Breaking the Binary, Joslyn has appeared on stage in The Enclave at Rattlestick Theater, and on screen as German Trans woman who escaped the Nazis on Paramount+’s Strange Angel, she executive produced and collaborated with PFLAG on "Pieces of Me," a powerful documentary exploring her life and family. Currently, Joslyn stars in the groundbreaking comedy series Marque and Hector, where she continues to push boundaries and inspire audiences. https://www.btb-nyc.com/red-ink-fringe daily 0.75 2025-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fd640a40-fdc9-47d6-bd8e-af677d644f4c/RED-INK-%282025-Promo%29+2.png RED INK - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/75dc6a83-8615-49e4-a19d-cb2b40fe7461/RED-INK-%282025-Promo%29+1.png RED INK - Chiquitita Performer Chiquitita is most known for her work in the Brooklyn nightlife scene, where she has inspired an entire generation of trans people through her transgression. Since being crowned Miss Bushwig in 2018, Chiqui has made it her business to uplift trans people in all of her work. A model, actress, and artist, Chiquitita recently stepped back from her drag career to explore other facets of her artistry. In fact, in an effort to get closer to Cecilia following her passing, Chiquitita took on her most recent role as a sex worker, learning many of the same valuable lessons that sex work had to offer Cecilia. Chiquitita makes her theatrical stage debut in RED INK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/19ae31b9-895f-4a52-9357-70b687099840/Cecilia+Gentili+Headshot.jpg RED INK - Cecilia Gentili Cecilia Gentili (1972-2024) was a legendary organizer, author, advocate, performer, and community icon. As the founder of Transgender Equity consulting and a beloved mother to countless queer, trans, and immigrant individuals in New York City, her legacy endures on both systemic and personal levels. Originally from Argentina, Cecilia came to the United States for a safer life as a transgender woman. After her first ten years in the US as an undocumented immigrant, sex worker, and drug user, she finally accessed recovery services and was able to fight for and win asylum status. With a renewed sense of control over her life, Cecilia committed herself to ensuring everyone living on the margins has a right to dignity and respect. Cecilia’s first role within community services came in the form of an internship at The LGBT Center in New York City. Following that post, she was brought into Apicha Community Health Center to develop transgender health services into a stand-alone program from 2012 to 2016. Throughout this period, Cecilia’s dedicated leadership was instrumental in expanding the program from 27 patients in 2012 to over 500 in 2016. Seeing so many clients affected by institutional discrimination and widespread lack of access, Cecilia transitioned from direct services into policy work at GMHC, the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention and care. She served as the Managing Director of Policy from 2016 to 2019, during which time she passionately advocated for the passage of GENDA (Gender Non-Discrimination Act). Her successes in policy inspired her to found Decrim NY, a coalition working towards the decriminalization, decarceration, and destigmatization of people in the sex trade. Cecilia was instrumental in the development of two statewide bills to provide survivors of trafficking with record relief, and to end the criminalization of ‘loitering’ for the purpose of prostitution — the “Walking While Trans Ban” — a charge overwhelmingly leveled against trans women, regardless of their involvement in the sex trade. Cecilia also founded Trans Equity Consulting in 2018, a consulting firm that has since collaborated extensively with organizations, including the AIDS Institute, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Funders for LGBTQ Issues, the Ali Forney Center, Borealis Foundation, Marsha P. Johnson Institute, and many others. Her acclaimed reputation among these renowned partners is reflective of the deep personal commitment she brought to the work, and her unique personal insight which enabled a deeper connection with queer and trans communities and their allies. Through Trans Equity Consulting, Cecilia championed her namesake program with Callen-Lorde, establishing C.O.I.N. (Cecilia’s Occupational Inclusion Network), a healthcare clinic providing free services to sex workers in NYC which grew to 500 patients in its second year. She also spearheaded TRANSMISSION, the first all-trans music festival at Marsha P. Johnson State Park, uplifting an impressive lineup of over 20 trans artists and musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a589b319-4876-4e41-ba81-348ffbec4b59/Nic+Cory+Headshot.jpeg RED INK - Nic Cory Nic Cory developed, directed and produced RED INK with his friend Cecilia Gentili. He produced TRIPLE THREAT off-Broadway and served as Associate Producer on Billy Porter’s directorial debut for MGM. At the beginning of the pandemic, he directed Michael Urie in a livestream benefit of BUYER & CELLAR, which raised over $300,000 for BC/EFA’s Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund. Other credits include The Lightning Thief, Pageant, The Purists, The Life, “And Just Like That” and La Fanta Giardiniera at his alma mater, CMU. His first film, The Singing Telegram, debuted at Cinefest in 2023. He is VP of Creative Development at Traverse32. https://www.btb-nyc.com/pirates daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8fd7a968-e82d-4e13-92d7-73ca2cc7a88c/title-wrap.png PIRATES! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.btb-nyc.com/summerintensive daily 0.75 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a1112f14-5016-498e-bf4a-b972fc6328fa/Screen+Shot+2025-07-07+at+9.15.24+AM.png SUMMER INTENSIVE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.btb-nyc.com/drowsy daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b8782a32-823a-4573-becb-953d1f034bc1/1.+Full+Cast.png DROWSY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/040cb918-705e-4b63-aaef-9a4b9baf0ee3/Screen+Shot+2025-07-14+at+9.05.06+AM.png DROWSY - Laverne Cox The Drowsy Chaperone Laverne Cox is a four-time Emmy-nominated actress, Emmy winning producer and a prominent equal rights advocate and public speaker.  Laverne's groundbreaking role of Sophia Burset in the critically acclaimed Netflix original series "Orange is The New Black" brought her to the attention of audiences all over the world. This role led to Laverne becoming the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for a Primetime acting Emmy.  Laverne continues to grace both the big and small screens with diverse and groundbreaking roles. She stars in the Amazon Prime Video comedy series “Clean Slate,” a Laverne Cox Production in collaboration with Norman Lear's Act III Productions and Sony Studios. Other credits include the Netflix film “Uglies,” the Emmy nominated Shonda Rhimes’ limited series 'Inventing Anna,” the critically acclaimed film “Promising Young Woman,” and Justin Simien’s film “Bad Hair.” Laverne served as host of “Live From E!” for three years and hosted “The Laverne Cox Show,” a podcast for Shondaland Audio and iHeart Radio.  Laverne won an Emmy for her works as executive producer of the eye-opening documentary “Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word” and has also produced other documentaries including "Disclosure,” “Free CeCe" and "Heightened Scrutiny". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3222e710-d36d-4aeb-b220-1d0f6c93dc62/Max+Crumm.jpg DROWSY - Max Mendoza Crumm George Max Mendoza Crumm is a New York–based actor, singer, and writer whose work spans Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, and film. On Broadway, they originated the role of Scott in Disaster! (Nederlander Theatre) and starred as Danny Zuko in the most recent revival of Grease. Off-Broadway credits include The Connector, Emojiland, The Evolution of Mann, Hot Mess, The Fantasticks, Disaster!, and Brooklyn Crush (formerly F#%king Up Everything, NY Times Critics’ Pick). Regional work includes Something Rotten! (Sharon Playhouse), Matthew McConaughey vs. The Devil (NYMF), Beatsville (Asolo Rep), and Legendale (Human Race Theatre). On screen, Crumm’s credits include “Elsbeth”, “Emergence,” “Ray Donovan,” the cult comedy Easy A, “Killing Diaz,” among others. Creator/Host of the comedy podcast “High, Sweetie!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0649a747-9953-4783-80ca-8f67974d7f50/Joslyn+DeFreece.jpg DROWSY - Joslyn DeFreece Underling Joslyn DeFreece is a NYC based writer, producer, actor, and activist. This year marks her third BTB Festival! She also traveled with the BTB family to the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2023 to workshop a BTB original production, TWITCH, by Lilliana Padilla. Joslyn starred in a production of The Enclave at Rattlestick Theater and has appeared on The Daily Show, Comedy Central, CNN, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and Family Feud. Her work can currently be seen in the comedy series Marque and Hector on Amazon Prime/Dekkoo, and on the show Strange Angel, where she plays a German trans woman who escaped the Nazis, streaming on Paramount+. Joslyn is also the subject of a new documentary, Pieces of Me, she created in collaboration with PFLAG National, currently streaming on Youtube. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8f274032-ae9e-4369-afa4-f6e3e42721ee/Jack+Haven+HS+2.1.25.jpg DROWSY - Jack Haven Feldzeig Jack Haven is an American actor and filmmaker most recently nominated for a Gotham and Independent Spirit Award for their performance in Jane Schoenbrun’s acclaimed second feature, I Saw the TV Glow. Jack is known for playing teenage heartthrob Casey Gardner in the Netflix original series “Atypical.” They can also be seen in Gabriel Abrantes&#39; surrealist horror film Amelia’s Children. Jack’s directorial debut October Crow premiered in official selection at the 2025 UnCanney Film Festival in Cannes, France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/08932e0e-504b-46b4-948f-4d74ddfcc594/Dylan+Mulvaney.jpeg DROWSY - Dylan Mulvaney Kitty Dylan Mulvaney is an actress, comedian, content creator, and New York Times bestselling author who is known for her viral series “Days of Girlhood” which has over 1 billion views across all social media platforms. Dylan was previously named Forbes’ 30 under 30, Out 100 and Attitude Magazine’s Woman of the Year for 2023. To celebrate her first year of transition, Dylan produced a live show - Day 365 - at The Rainbow Room to support The Trevor Project and raised nearly two hundred thousand for queer youth. Most recently Dylan made her West End debut in the new play We Are Not Kids Anymore, which premiered at the Savoy Theater. Next up, Dylan will be starring in her one-woman show The Least Problematic Woman in the World which will run this Fall at the Lortel Theatre. The show is adapted from her sold-out Edinburgh Fringe play, F*GHAG. In March of 2024, Dylan released her first book Paperdoll: Notes of a Late Bloomer, which debuted on The NY Times Best-Sellers list. Dylan is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and has performed in the Broadway musical Book of Mormon in the US, Canada and Mexico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/856df22c-2dd0-4a94-817a-a4703a57482a/Alex+Newell.jpg DROWSY - Alex Newell Janet Van de Graaf Alex Newell made history with their Tony Award win for the hit musical SHUCKED, which has received glowing reviews and praise with Alex's performance of the song "Independently Owned" being called a showstopper. Their performances have also granted them the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical. Prior to this, Alex starred as the God 'Asaka' (female role) in the Broadway revival of ONCE ON THIS ISLAND. This show granted Alex a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album, and the show was nominated for nine Tony Awards in 2018, won Best Revival and featured Alex's song which they performed live at the Tonys. Alex has been named in 2023’s Variety New Power of New York List and featured in the 2023 TIME 100 Next list. The TIME's annual list consists of 100 individuals who are shaping the future of their fields and defining the next generation of leadership. Alex's piece was written by Academy Award winning actress Mary Steenburgen, and they were honored at their gala in October as well. Alex was additionally named the 2023 Breakthrough of the Year by TIME Magazine, a brand-new exciting position which is part of the annual Person of the Year. Alex can now be seen in Amazon film SIMPLE FAVOR 2 for Paul Feig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fbfb0f2a-4de3-41e7-8378-b18e96870d1a/Peppermint.jpg DROWSY - Peppermint Mrs. Tottendale Peppermint rose to fame as the first out trans contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, finishing as runner-up. She then made history as the first trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway in Head Over Heels. Her recent projects include roles in Netflix's Survival of the Thickest, Hulu's Fire Island, and various TV series. She has hosted and presented at the GLAAD Media Awards and co-hosts the Black Queer Town Hall podcast. Peppermint is also an activist, serving as the ACLU's first Artist Ambassador for Trans Justice and raising funds for LGBTQ+ organizations. She has been recognized for her work with award nominations and honors, including a GLAAD Media Award nomination, a "Queeroes" award, and a spot on Out magazine's "OUT100" list. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3d9e8c93-351f-409f-b8b1-60b3fa326241/Chris+Renfro.jpg DROWSY - Chris Renfro Aldolpho Chris Renfro is an Asian-American multi-hyphenate who most recently starred as Mary’s Teacher in the Tony Award winning play, Oh, Mary! On TV/film, they can be seen in “Queer as Folk,” “Good Trouble,” “The L Word: Generation Q,” “Tom Swift,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Reno 911!,” and the MTV original movie, Pretty Stoned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c0f0d09a-7a73-469c-966f-2e36058c9061/Jonathan+Van+Ness.jpg DROWSY - Jonathan Van Ness Man in Chair Jonathan Van Ness is an Emmy-winning television personality, 4x New York Times bestselling author, podcaster, comedian, celebrity hairstylist, and founder of JVN Hair. They star on Netflix’s Emmy Award–winning reboot series Queer Eye, where they shine as the hair guru and self-care advocate; and they host the popular podcast Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/cc585c1e-2ae4-4b04-8fdb-d5f33f712a00/Betty+Who.JPG DROWSY - Betty Who Robert Martin Betty Who is a classically trained singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist whose soaring pop anthems and vibrant energy have made her a global fan favorite. From her viral breakout Somebody Loves You to her hit album BIG and recent singles Run! and Sweat, Betty blends powerful vocals with euphoric, genre-bending sound. Fresh off her Out of the Darkness Tour, which lit up the 2025 Pride season with a World Pride stop covered by The Washington Post, Them, and Billboard, she continues to bring authenticity to everything she does—from hosting Amazon’s The One That Got Away to her Broadway debut as Persephone in Hadestown. With bold new music and creative chapters ahead, Betty Who is entering her most electric era yet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2ee74608-9c49-4707-abed-f3d3ae68ed8d/Garnet+Williams.jpg DROWSY - Garnet Williams Trix Garnet Williams (she/they) is a writer, actor, and singer originally from Atlanta, GA. She’s recently been seen as Nina Simone in Nina Simone: Four Women (Geva Theatre), as Pythio in Head Over Heels (Monumental Theatre Co), and in an Obie Award winning turn as a litter of kittens in Cats: The Jellicle Ball (PAC NYC). She also recently raised the roof during her solo show: Garnet with a G at Joe’s Pub 9/29. For Lucile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e2b6fc3a-1b4a-4326-98bf-4c03ae897050/GioCoppolaHeadshot.jpg DROWSY - Gio Coppola Gangster Gio Coppola (he/him) is a recent graduate of Pace University’s Musical Theater BFA (after 3 years at The University of the Arts). As a proud trans man, Gio is so grateful and honored to be a part of this production. Regional: Ensemble in Something Rotten! (Barnstormers Theater) and Elle’s Dad/Winthrop in Legally Blonde (Prescott Park). Thank you to L Morgan and everyone at BTB for making this happen for our community. Insta/Tiktok @gioo.coppola, giocoppola.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1fcf02b8-e019-421d-9808-35720b0de328/Futaba.jpg DROWSY - Futaba Gangster Futaba (he, his) is an actor of transgender and Asian Diaspora experience and the winner of an Obie and a Paul Robeson Award for his work bridging art and advocacy. Select Theater Credits: Feste in Twelfth Night (Folger Theatre), Gerd in A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group), Clown in The 39 Steps (Rep Theatre of St. Louis), Galatea in Galatea (WP Theater), NoFi in BLUSH (SoHo Rep), and the Original 20th Anniversary Cast of RENT. Film: Therapist Crush, Sideways Smile. Voice Over: Kennedy Center for Young Audiences, Spotify’s “Raise Your Voice.” heyfutaba.com / @heyfutaba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b572bc03-1845-46c6-83e0-2d49b6446e7b/PatrickFalkHeadshot.png DROWSY - Patrick Nathan Falk Ensemble Patrick Nathan Falk (he/him/his) is overjoyed to be a part of BTB’s THE DROWSY CHAPERONE! Patrick is a Brooklyn-based actor who recently made his off-Broadway debut in the New Group’s NYC premiere production of The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse. Favorite other credits include Putting It Together at Pace University and Rock of Ages at the Firehouse in MA. Pace BFA MT 2024. Patrick is deeply, profoundly grateful for the fellow transgender people in his life who have uplifted him and held him close. It is all for you. More at patrickfalk.com @patricknfalk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2f6e3620-38c3-4702-b2f4-dbedbc5f55fc/LuzAP.jpg DROWSY - Luz Ensemble Luz (they/them) is a performer and creative who is particularly passionate about creating in community with other queer people. During a time of great personal and collective upheaval, this project feels perfectly aligned with Luz’s goals as an artist. They’re thrilled to be working with BTB again and to be joining this incredible team! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/cd5c66b3-9e1f-4870-829f-e261f36a8732/Zachary+A.+Myers+.JPG DROWSY - Zachary A. Myers Ensemble Zachary A. Myers (she/her) is thrilled to be making her Carnegie Hall debut with this fabulous production! She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop (Broadway), understudying the roles of Thought 1 and Thought 2. Her other notable credits include Cats: The Jellicle Ball (Off-Broadway), A Complicated Woman (Goodspeed Musicals), Head Over Heels (Richmond Triangle Players), and Emojiland (First National Tour). Much love to Jhonika and Stacy—her greatest champions—and special thanks to Clear Talent Group for their continued support. IG: @zacharyamyers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f8ca4bf7-4f04-4b9f-9e2d-6581fe203f40/Wren+Rivera+Headshot.jpg DROWSY - Wren Rivera Ensemble Wren Rivera (they/them) is thrilled to be part of this trans production! They’ve been lucky to be in The Heart at La Jolla, Jagged Little Pill on Broadway, play Stephanie in Teeth Off-Broadway, Jules in Between The Lines Off-Broadway, and make their television debut on Apple TV’s WeCrashed amongst other wonderful projects. They are represented by Nicolosi &amp; Co. and Emery Entertainment. Join them: @w.t.rivera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/54d1a48c-174e-4472-83b9-1e948b00b356/HEADSHOT+-+NORA+SCHELL+SMILING+BLONDE+DAVID+NOLES.jpg DROWSY - Nora Schell Ensemble Nora Schell (they/them) is honored to be a part of BTB’s The Drowsy Chaperone at Carnegie Hall. Nora originated the role of Bustopher Jones in Cats: The Jellicle Ball Off-Broadway (Obie Award). Nora received Drama Desk, Drama League and Clive Barnes Award nominations for their Off-Broadway debut in Spamilton. They made their Broadway debut in Jagged Little Pill. Nora serves as a cowriter and composer for the new musical Sweet Canaan. Nora graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Musical Theatre & a minor in Gender, Race and Nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/80afcd8d-d95e-480c-a248-ab6cfc0f3eed/CHARLIESTEINERHEADSHOT.jpg DROWSY - Charlie Steiner Ensemble Charlie Steiner is extremely grateful just to be in the room and to have the opportunity to perform with this group of people! Charlie hopes to be a part of many more important and special projects! Regional: Heathers (JD), Spring Awakening (Melchior). Charlie is a current Senior Musical Theater major at PACE University! Charlie would like to thank L Morgan Lee and BTB Theatre for giving him this incredible Opportunity! Love you Momma! @_charliesteiner_ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/395e18ab-b843-46db-bce0-79fdd0879b04/L+Morgan+Lee.jpg DROWSY - L Morgan Lee Director L Morgan Lee is an award-winning actress and rising director and writer. She received Tony Award®, Drama League, and Lortel nominations, as well as an Obie Award for her performance in A Strange Loop (Broadway, Playwrights Horizons, DC). She continues to break new ground both on stage and behind the scenes. As a dedicated theatre-maker and educator, L Morgan brings a distinct and rare perspective to storytelling, often centering identity and the complexities of human experiences through a lens not often seen. Her writing has been featured in Playwrights Horizons’ Almanac (Vol. 03), When the Lights Are Bright Again, and Musical Theatre Today (Vol. 2). Her short play The Learning Curve was featured in the BTB Theatre Festival at The Public Theater and is published by Broadway Licensing. A Mark O’Donnell Prize and 2024 HRC Visibility Award recipient, L Morgan serves on the Advisory Board of the Breaking the Binary Theatre Company and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Musical Theatre department at Pace University. She leads with vision, care, and a deep commitment to building bridges towards a more inclusive theatrical future. More at lmorganlee.com https://www.btb-nyc.com/altar daily 0.75 2025-08-05 https://www.btb-nyc.com/25festival daily 0.75 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/dcfe636a-6d96-4a23-b5c4-2e500ed0901c/2025+BTBTF+Logo.png 2025 FESTIVAL - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/12cef9b0-1a6b-4085-a6ea-8bc2648204d7/2.png 2025 FESTIVAL - THE DROWSY CHAPERONE in Concert MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2025 8PM at Carnegie Hall A Benefit for Breaking the Binary Theatre, Trans Lifeline, and Black Trans Liberation Music Supervision by Anessa Marie Scolpini Directed by Tony Award Nominee L Morgan Lee Featuring an all-TNB2S+ cast: Laverne Cox is The Drowsy Chaperone Max Mendoza Crumm is George Joslyn DeFreece is Underling Jack Haven is Feldzieg Dylan Mulvaney is Kitty Alex Newell is Janet Van De Graaf Peppermint is Mrs. Tottendale Chris Renfro is Aldolpho Jonathan Van Ness is Man in Chair Betty Who is Robert Martin Garnet Williams is Trix Gio Coppola and Futaba are The Gangsters Patrick Nathan Falk, Luz, Zachary A. Myers, Wren Rivera, Nora Schell, and Charlie Steiner are The Ensemble For more information on THE DROWSY CHAPERONE in Concert, and to book tickets, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1aca8764-00d9-4817-bf0b-cc1e20184051/3.png 2025 FESTIVAL - DEATH COMES IN THREES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025 3PM & 7PM at Open Jar Studios by AriDy Nox (they/them) directed by Cooper Howell (they/them) Stage Manager: Campbell Anidjar (he/they) Associate Director: Julie Monteleone (they/them) Stage Directions Reader: Temidayo Amay (them) featuring Samora La Perdida and Taylor Iman Jones (she/they) In a bedroom on the edge of a meadow on the edge of a cliff on the edge of a shoreline, Me and Myself (im)patiently wait for Death, earnestly trying not to kill each other first. For more information on DEATH COMES IN THREES, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2dea59c9-3aad-4fc7-a90d-a62bdb4ef11e/5.png 2025 FESTIVAL - LEGENDARY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2025 3PM & 7PM at Open Jar Studios written and performed by Cheeyang Ng (they/them) directed by Emilio Ramos (he/they) Music Director: Katie-James (he/she) Stage Manager: Huai Huang (she/her/they) Assistant Director: Spencer James Weidie (they/them) Legendary is a solo ritual-musical that follows a queer Asian immigrant in the U.S. as they wrestle with inherited legacies and imagine new ones. Blending Chinese mythology, circle singing, and audience call-and-response, the Narrator transforms their search for identity and belonging into the creation of a brand-new myth: an act of collective healing, joy, and defiance. For more information on LEGENDARY, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/aeb16f47-31b2-4089-8a8f-750eacdd13f3/7.png 2025 FESTIVAL - THE LADY OF M STREET THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2025 3PM & 7PM at Open Jar Studios by Dane Figueroa Edidi (she/her) directed by Sharifa Yazmeen (she/her) Stage Manager: Joseph Distl (he/they) Stage Directions Reader: Vincent Marcello (he/they) featuring Chasity Moore (she/her), Dane Figueroa Edidi (she/her), Grant Evan (she/they), Jayae Riley Jr. (she/they), Leo Sheng (he/him), Sis thee Doll (she/her), and TL Thompson (they/them/t) When Beth’s husband, Mac, has a chance to become the new Headmaster of a famous prep school in 1980’s DC, she is determined to do everything she can to help him achieve it, including murder. For more information on THE LADY OF M STREET, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/cedcd2d1-7334-4a91-8a15-52e9b1367765/9.png 2025 FESTIVAL - HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2025 3PM & 7PM at Open Jar Studios by Jayne Deely (they/them) directed by Mack Brown (they/them) Stage Manager: Blake Elliott (Xe | Xem | Xyr) Assistant Director: Neeta Thadani (they/he) Stage Directions Reader: Paola Sanchez Abreu (she/they) featuring Arturo Luíz Soria, Bekah Zornosa (she/they), Janice Amaya (they/them/elle), Nicola Gorham (she/her), and Vico Ortiz (they/them/theirs, elle/le/e) Kap’s reluctantly back in Queens for Sam’s wedding — but tying the knot isn’t the only thing on Sam’s checklist. With friends Ish and Mel along for the ride, the crew dives headfirst into a weekend of ’90s throwbacks, childhood flashbacks, and a few emotional landmines. But as old wounds resurface and one very unexpected guest shows up, their nostalgic trip down memory lane takes a sharp left turn. For more information on HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/69fe0ec0-25a6-4eed-97be-7e0ca6de9264/11.png 2025 FESTIVAL - PUNCH BACK SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025 3PM & 7PM at Open Jar Studios by Genevieve Simon (he/they) directed by Kedian Keohan (they/he) Stage Manager: Bea Perez-Arche (they/she) Dramaturg: Dezi Tibbs (they/she) Fight Choreographer: Alex Might (her) Stage Directions Reader: Lisa Stephen Friday (she/her) featuring Ashil Lee (they/he), Ashton Muñiz (they/he), Che Kabia (they/them), Daphne Always (she/her), Sagan Chen, Smith Alfieri (he/they), and Vann Dukes (they/them) Seven trans college students fall in love and secretly distribute HRT while learning how to box in the red state of Ohio. PUNCH BACK is presented in association with Ten Toes Theater Collective. For more information on PUNCH BACK, please click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/399c6c37-074c-4abf-ad76-5ca80fb79b5b/13.png 2025 FESTIVAL - LIMITLESS: A COLLECTION OF COMMISSIONED SCENES AND MONOLOGUES SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025 5PM at The CENTER co-conceived by L Morgan Lee (she/her) and George Strus (they/them) directed by L Morgan Lee (she/her) in partnership with Concord Theatricals featuring new works by Adrian Einspanier (they/them), Audley Puglisi (they/them), Barsha (she/they), Bazeed (they/them), Chris Bush (she/her), Dom Martello (they/them/she), Emmanuelle Mattana (she/they), JJ Maley (he/they), Jordan Ramirez Puckett (they/them), Sam Mueller (they/she), Travis Alabanza, and Utkarsh Rajawat (they/them) performed by Brian Michael Smith (he/him), Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they), K.O. (they/them), Reed Northrup, and Sandra Caldwell (she/her) Following Overheard, Bliss, and Dare, BTB Core Community member L Morgan Lee and Founding Artistic Director George Strus are partnering with Concord Theatricals/Broadway Licensing for the fourth year in a row to create Limitless: A Collection of Commissioned Scenes and Monologues. The twelve commissioned works inspired by the prompt "LIMITLESS: What does it mean to be free? What does it feel like to fly?” will be crafted together and brought to life by a cast of five TNB2S+ performers to close the 2025 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. The works will then be published and licensed by Concord Theatricals in 2026. For more information on LIMITLESS, please click here. https://www.btb-nyc.com/death-three daily 0.75 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/103ae8f3-e207-455e-b8f9-4a2fd814612d/AriDy+Nox+%28they_them%29.jpg DEATH COMES IN THREES - AriDy Nox (they/them) Writer AriDy Nox is a multi-disciplinary black femme storyteller with a variety of forward-thinking creative works under their belt including the historical reimagining of the life of Sally Hemmings BLACK GIRL IN PARIS (2020), the ancestral reckoning play A WALLESS CHURCH (2019), the cross-generational magical realism FRESHWATER PLAY (2020) series and many others. Their tales are offerings intended to function as small parts of an ancient, expansive, awe-inspiring tradition of world-shaping created by black femmes and with black femmes at the center. They have been inordinately privileged to share the workings of their imagination in collaboration with a vast array of inspiring and supportive artists of various radical backgrounds throughout the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d71072cd-1c40-4f6f-8fff-2a48590ff48e/Cooper+Howell+%28they_them%29.jpg DEATH COMES IN THREES - Cooper Howell (they/them) Director Cooper Howell (they/them) is a New York City-based playwright, director, and producer determined to spearheading an audience revolution—creating high-voltage, avant-garde theater where content rips open convention, bends form until it breaks, and unapologetically centers queer, trans, and POC voices. They are the Co-Artistic Director of WILDEHAUS, a new performance incubator positioning itself to become America’s foremost producer of radical queer work. They currently serve in the artistic collective of National Queer Theater and are a founding member of New York Theater Company (NYTC), where they are writing and directing the world’s first silent disco play—an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde titled THE LOOP. Cooper also serves as Associate Director of Cats: The Jellicle Ball (directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch), the acclaimed ballroom reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. All my love to Sawyer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/50a5a814-b687-44d0-9293-9946df6b6615/Campbell+Anidjar+%28he_they%29.jpg DEATH COMES IN THREES - Campbell Anidjar (he/they) Stage Manager Campbell Anidjar (he/they) is a transmasculine New York City-based stage manager. Recent credits include MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (New York Theatre Workshop); A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Hartford Stage); THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS National Tour; THAÏS, THE SONG OF ROME (Spoleto Festival USA). Campbell has also worked on developmental readings with Manhattan Theatre Club, the Working Theater, New York Stage and Film, Ars Nova, and Breaking the Binary Theater. He is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a BA in Theatre Arts and a concentration in Producing & Management. For all the trans folks who came before, and for all who will come after. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/56da46ca-e1ba-4f5d-8b27-a12e49c4c0a9/Julie+Monteleone+%28they_them%29.JPG DEATH COMES IN THREES - Julie Monteleone (they/them) Associate Director Julie Monteleone (they/them) is a director, intimacy/fight choreographer, and educator focused on uplifting trans and queer voices, particularly through Shakespeare and classical adaptations. They’re currently a 2050 Administrative Fellow at New York Theater Workshop. This past year, they served as National Queer Theater’s Education Coordinator while working as a freelance director with First Kiss Theater, The Makers’ Ensemble, and putting up their own work at The Tank. Favorite directing credits include LESBIAN BIGFOOT, How to Defend Yourself, Macbeth, and Salwa Meghjee’s Word Play. They've also served as an associate director for Manna-Symone Middlebrooks, Ismael Lara Jr., and Halena Kays. Julie received a B.A. in Theater and Gender Studies from Northwestern University, and has taught for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Company, National Queer Theater, and Boston Public Schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/628a582e-bb0c-4cb4-b5be-2ba507f82fa7/Samora+la+Perdida.jpg DEATH COMES IN THREES - Samora la Perdida ME Samora la Perdida is a Princess Grace Award winner, YoungArts Fellow, and the inaugural recipient of Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Artist Labs residency. She just finished a run in Galas at Little Island and previously starred in Notes on Killing… at Soho Rep and Yale Rep, Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language at Signature Theatre, and A Transparent Musical at the Mark Taper Forum. She can be seen in Tina Romero’s upcoming feature Queens of the Dead, hitting theaters this fall. Her original musical, Spanglish Sh!t, can be heard on Playbill's Songwriter Series as well as in her TEDxTALK: Do Latines Need to Speak Spanish? She graduated from LaGuardia HS as a YoungArts Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and Carnegie Mellon with a dual degree in Drama and Global Studies. @samoraperdida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/06e4745d-180e-4f4f-adc6-57f727e3e91c/Taylor+Iman+Jones+%28she_they%29.jpg DEATH COMES IN THREES - Taylor Iman Jones (she/they) MYSELF Broadway: SIX, Head Over Heels, Groundhog Day. National Tours: Hamilton, American Idiot. Off-Broadway/Regional: The Lonely Few, The Jonathon Larson Project, A Wrinkle in Time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/3a6df022-23a1-42d0-88da-3ed25c258e9c/Te%CC%A3mi%CC%81dayo%CC%A3+Amay+%28them%29.png DEATH COMES IN THREES - Temidayo Amay (them) Stage Directions Reader Tẹmídayọ Amay (them) is a Black Trans Non-Binary writer, actor, director, and queer activist. Amay’s plays have been developed alongside the Obie Award-winning Breaking The Binary Theatre Company, Musical Theatre Factory, Solas Nua, Theatre Alliance, The Clarice, and Brooklyn College. TENURE: BTB New Works Program Playwright; Theatre Producers of Color Fellow; Musical Theatre Factory Makers Cohort III Composer; Harriet Tubman Effect; MAESTRA Music Musical Theatre Writing Mentee. OFF-BROADWAY: Target Margin; New York Theatre Company; Classic Stage Company: black odyssey (Audelco Awards: Best Play, dir. Stevie Walker-Webb); MCC Theater; Classical Theatre of Harlem; The Public Theatre; Ars Nova; Clubbed Thumb. REGIONAL: Round House Theatre: School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play (Helen Hayes Award: winner); Signature Theatre: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Arena Stage; The Kennedy Center; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Longacre Lea: The Interstellar Ghost Hour (Helen Hayes Award: nominated). WRITING: Bell’e: The Musical; Pool, Part One: An American Fantasia. temidayoamay.com https://www.btb-nyc.com/legendary daily 0.75 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fc2fe73f-8d02-4208-99d3-5292f2ee251f/Cheeyang+Ng+%28they_them%29.jpeg LEGENDARY - Cheeyang Ng (they/them) Writer and Performer Cheeyang Ng (they/them) is a Fred Ebb, Princess Grace, and Jonathan Larson Award–winning singer-songwriter from Singapore. A queer Asian immigrant, Cheeyang creates work at the intersection of personal history and public reckoning, blending Western musical theatre with Chinese folk, Mandopop, and South and Southeast Asian traditions. Their musicals include MĀYĀ (with Eric Sorrels), Eastbound (with Khiyon Hursey) and The Phoenix (with Desdemona Chiang and Eric Sorrels). Across projects, Cheeyang centers queer, Asian, and immigrant voices, positioning musical theatre as a vehicle for both justice and joy. Performance highlights include Carnegie Hall with Jason Robert Brown, Lincoln Center with Carole King, and being the first Singaporean to headline at Joe’s Pub and the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. Cheeyang is also the creator of the podcast East Side Story and founder of The Lunar Collective. MFA: NYU. BMus: Berklee. www.cheeyang.com | @cheeyangmusic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a0ad2d11-9241-43d1-9a54-f3aedf4f6b9c/Emilio+Ramos+%28he_they%29.jpg LEGENDARY - Emilio Ramos (he/they) Director Honoured to be among the gorgeous luminaries of this year’s BTBTF! Emilio is mixed-race and non-binary, which means “I hear you” and also “please listen.” Recently, he directed the off-Broadway revival of See What I Wanna See, which was nominated for three Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical and Outstanding Puppetry. Currently, they serve as Associate Director for Maybe Happy Ending and Hadestown on Broadway (both Tony Award winners for Best Musical). Other AD credits include Parade (Tony winner, Best Revival of a Musical; NYCC / Broadway / U.S. Tour), Vanya (Drama League, Drama Desk, Lortel and Obie winner; Lucille Lortel Theatre), The Light in the Piazza (NYCC Encores!), Titanique. Emilio is also on adjunct faculty at NYU Steinhardt. Thank you George and Cheeyang for having me on Team Legendary – I hope you can all feel me singing along with you. Find more at www.emilioramosonline.com & @lilporkbunz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e8143d93-9333-4f41-b512-4fe8105b48e1/Katie-James+%28he_she%29.jpeg LEGENDARY - Katie-James (he/she) Music Director Katie-James is a composer/producer/Music Director and multi-instrumentalist living in Queens. He’s also a Dungeon Master and ice cream connoisseur who would like to thank Dropout and Ben & Jerry’s for their services. James has performed with some of Broadway’s greatest, serving as co-conductor/keys for the Broadway run and National Tour of Freestyle Love Supreme. Lately KJ is back on Broadway and on the bandstand with Mamma Mia! at the Winter Garden and serving as Music Director for Jenna DeVries (@devriesmusic), Madison Rose (@madisonrose), and the last 3 years of the Broadway Sessions with Ben Cameron at Green Room 42. She sends special thanks to George Strus and Breaking the Binary for all of their support and love to Cheeyang Ng for making such a beautiful piece! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d222e524-ee2e-4656-af83-16c629d81769/Huai+Huang+%28she_her_they%29+.PNG LEGENDARY - Huai Huang (she/her/they) Stage Manager Huai Huang is an international stage manager originally from Taiwan, now based in New York City, and has been working in the US, Japan and Taiwan. She received her MFA in stage management from the University of California, San Diego in 2025. Selected credits: Ocean’s 11 (Takarazuka Revue), Phantom (Takarazuka Revue), Elisabeth (Takarazuka Revue), Casanova (Takarazuka Revue), Trophy Boys (MCC Theatre), Velour: A Drag Spectacular (La Jolla Playhouse), Cabaret (The Old Globe), Aphrodite (Taiwan Now), The Devotion of Suspect X (National Theatre of Taiwan). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ef01ce8d-7e36-47bb-8472-9e5c5fc48c5d/Spencer+James+Weidie+%28they_them%29.jpeg LEGENDARY - Spencer James Weidie (they/them) Assistant Director Spencer James Weidie (they/them) is a performance artist based in New York City. They graduated from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY with a BFA in Dance and a concentration in Dance Composition. They also studied at London Contemporary Dance School, Springboard Dans Montreal, and with the Merce Cunningham Trust. Spencer has previously held company positions with Brian Brooks/Moving Company, Bocatuya, Gallim Dance, MADBOOTS Dance, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and Punchdrunks's Sleep No More. In 2022, Spencer was invited to join the Trisha Brown Dance Company under Carolyn Lucas. In 2024, Spencer made their Broadway Debut as Dance Captain and Swing in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. Spencer is also the creator, curator, and host of FREEPLAY, a monthly open improvisation space for performance based artists in NYC. https://www.btb-nyc.com/lady-m daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/dfb996cf-a66c-4106-81fa-da78018edbe6/Dane+Figueroa+Edidi+%28she_her%29+%281%29.jpg THE LADY OF M STREET - Dane Figueroa Edidi (she/her) Writer and Performer Dane Figueroa Edidi: Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane is a Black Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American Performance Artist, Author, Poet, Educator, Advocate, producer, a Helen Hayes Award winning Playwright (Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem), a 2021 Helen Merrill Award Winner, Film Maker, Advocate, Dramaturg, a 3x Helen Hayes Award nominated choreographer (2016, 2018, 2023), and a Princess Grace Honoria Award winner. She is the Co-director of the Black Trans Prayer Book. She is the curator and associate producer of Long Wharf Theatre’s Black Trans Women At The Center: An Evening of Short Plays and is an artistic ensemble member of the company as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/18103433-0535-4458-80c3-f61b380d4bad/Sharifa+Yazmeen+%28she_her%29.jpeg THE LADY OF M STREET - Sharifa Yazmeen (she/her) Director Sharifa Yazmeen (she/her) is a trans Arab-American director, actor, and playwright. She has completed directing fellowships with The Drama League, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geva Theatre, and was a Eugene O’Neill national directing fellow. Some of Sharifa’s favorite directing projects include Close to Home (Pillsbury House), Disgraced (American Stage), Beirut (Brown/Trinity Rep), The War Boys (Hangar Theater), 3:59AM (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Babel (CATF), Noon Panir in the Dark (Dartmouth College), and Mosque4Mosque (National Queer Theatre). Yazmeen was honored as the inaugural recipient of the SCDF’s Barbara Whitman Award in 2021, and Abe Burrows award in 2024. She holds a MFA in Directing from Brown/Trinity Rep, and is currently a Jerome Fellow with Playwrights’ Center. www.sharifayazmeen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/928c9d52-2a7d-4f5f-b31e-c41e8ce04ae2/Joseph+Distl+%28he_they%29.jpg THE LADY OF M STREET - Joseph Distl (he/they) Stage Manager Joseph is a queer Puerto Rican theater artist from Queens with dreams of producing unconventional theater for unconventional audiences. Recent credits include She Loves Me (Long Wharf), Goat Blood (Under St. Marks), Gentleman Robert (Lavahouse Arts), The Hours Are Feminine (INTAR), Spain, Toros (2ST), demons. (Bushwick Starr & ¡OYE GROUP!), Eight Tales of Pedro (Queens Theatre) THIS & THAT (The Chocolate Factory). They have recently became the producing & management associate at INTAR Theatre. Joseph would like to remind you that theater can be used as a force of activism. Take the time to celebrate and uplift marginalized communities that are losing their rights everyday. We are stronger when we are in community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7123a38f-edd8-44b6-9b4a-2df4e84610f0/Chasity+Moore+%28she_her%29.jpg THE LADY OF M STREET - Chasity Moore (She/Her) WITCH/MAIDEN Tempress (Chasity Moore) actress, singer, and Ballroom Icon/Hall of famer from Mount Vernon, N.Y. She began singing in church at age 5, which led her to Star Search, The Apollo, and traveling with a high school drama troupe. Chasity attended Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, GA) and pursued an acting and singing career. She was discovered by Tyler Perry, being cast as a principal role in I Know I’ve Been Changed. The name Tempress was born in Ballroom. She has made appearances on Ryan Murphy’s Pose, as well as in campaigns for Sephora, Tv One and more. She hosts a YouTube series and a podcast FqCrazySexyCool. Tempress’s latest accomplishment is Playing Grisabella in Cats The Jellicle Ball, the hottest ticket of the summer, receiving many awards including an Obie Award, 2025 Outer Circle Award, As well as Drama critic Circle Award to name a few. Several Write ups including Vogue, New York Times, The New Yorker and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/26c66442-d66f-4e90-9fe6-3aa2ef881232/Grant+Evan+%28She_They%29.jpeg THE LADY OF M STREET - Grant Evan (she/they) WITCH/CRONE Grant Evan most recently appeared as Peaches in the Regional Premier of Ain't No Mo at Speakeasy Stage in Boston. They are currently attached to Transparent the Musical (Dir. Tina Landau) and recently was seen in A Strange Loop (Thought 1). Other credits include Five Guys Named Moe (Fulton Theatre); The Baker's Wife (Off Broadway with J2 Spotlight -- casting by Stephen Schwartz); Scouts; Songs for A New World (Limelight Theatre); and Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama (Off Broadway). They currently reside in New York City. IG: @TheGrantEvan (She/They) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/e79e3f4b-257f-4dd3-9c7f-0dbad73445d2/Jayae+Riley+Jr.+%28She_They%29.jpg THE LADY OF M STREET - Jayae Riley Jr. (She/They) GERTIE Jayae Riley Jr. is a proud Black & Trans, St. Louisan, residing in Flatbush, who loves to tell a story through text, sound, speech, and movement. They are thrilled to be performing in the Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival again. OFF BROADWAY: SUFFS (The Public) & Welcome to the Big Dipper (York Theatre) REGIONAL: Trevor: The Musical (Writers) and Scottsboro Boys (Porchlight). NETFLIX: Survival of The Thickest. Much love to DGRW! IG:@jayaerileyjr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/13a1496c-f833-4938-9d33-23a7e87624e9/Leo+Sheng+%28He_Him_His%29+%281%29.jpg THE LADY OF M STREET - Leo Sheng (He/Him/His) MILLER Born in China and raised in Michigan by two moms, Leo has spent his entire life in queer community. With a background in social work, community building, and dialogue / facilitation, Leo has worked to center queer and trans voices in storytelling, both on screen and off. After his acting debut in the 2019 film Adam, Leo joined the cast of the Showtime’s The L Word: Generation Q (2019) in the series regular role of Micah Lee, and later, The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Leo intentionally fuses his identities as a queer trans man with his art. Through acting and writing, Leo aims to resist the efforts of erasure and demonization of our communities from those in power. Leo is excited to be a part of Breaking the Binary Festival, and to join the cast in reading Lady Dane Edidi’s work, THE LADY OF M STREET. Leo is represented by Jax Hillard of Kreativ Media Partners, who is proud to champion his voice and career within and beyond queer storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8504719b-b523-4dfc-86dc-c9cef64014ca/Sis+Thee+Doll+%28she_her_hers%29+.jpg THE LADY OF M STREET - Sis Thee Doll (She/Her/Hers) WITCH/MOTHER SIS THEE DOLL is an Artist, Activist, and Sister to thee people, from Houston, Texas. With a mission in life of franchising the disenfranchised, she loves changing the narrative. From creating to singing and acting, Sis does it all! She has been seen on tour in Oklahoma! and on television in American Horror Story: NYC, Pose, and The Last O.G. You can keep up with her on instagram @ucancallmesis and her website ucancallmesis.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ac179975-abc3-45bc-a706-dd04b6060ad6/Vincent+Marcello+%28he_they%29.jpg THE LADY OF M STREET - Vincent Marcello (he/they) Stage Directions Reader Vincent is so excited to be a part of BTB 2025. Queering the canon and amplifying marginalized voices are tenants of his work. He earned a BFA from Millikin University. Shoutout to Brooklyn! https://www.btb-nyc.com/hiraeth daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/bb29b5d6-48c8-4c38-a5ab-01aabdf8a7f5/Jayne+Deely+%28they_them%29.jpg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Jayne Deely (they/them) Writer Jayne Deely (they/them) is a Queens-born, Puerto Rican, queer playwright and performer. Their work includes Hiraeth, or when Pluto was a planet, I never asked for a gofundme, Walter Mercado Presents: A Queer Puerto Rican (Not Just) Christmxs Spectacular, unqle play, and 30 Seconds. Their plays have been developed with Seattle Public Theatre, the New Harmony Project, Breaking the Binary, Fresh Ground Pepper, American Stage, Renaissance Theaterworks, and others. They are currently under commission with a Sloan grant from EST. As a performer, they’ve worked with Berkeley Rep, Aurora Theatre, TheatreWorks, and BRAVA. Jayne is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatists Guild, and is based in Queens, NY. Next up: Indy Playfest, (November ’25), Jungle Theatre Greenhouse Reading Series (January ’26). The world premiere of I never asked for a gofundme will be produced by Actor’s Express in Atlanta in October 2026. MFA, IU Bloomington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/023bde23-97cf-45ce-96be-d7ed224b0846/Mack+Brown+%28they_them%29.jpg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Mack Brown (they/them) Director Mack Brown builds precise new musicals, plays that challenge our collective moral compass, and theatre that is trans-genre and transsexual. Recent: WATCHDOG (ANTFest), TRANS AM (Joe’s Pub). Associate: PICTURES FROM HOME (Broadway), THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE (Off-Broadway), I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE (Classic Stage). They are the recipient of the 2025 SDCF Abe Burrows Award for Assistant Directors, the ‘22-23 Roundabout Directing Fellow, and currently serve as Lead Facilitator of the Roundabout Directors Group. Mack also is a NYU Tisch Drama Gender Expansive Mentor, an NYCLU Artist Ambassador, and works at Convergence Magazine with grassroots organizers and activists to produce media that sharpens our collective practice. Proud SDC member. mack-brown.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/12f2f2a2-0575-402c-b284-f7c374269a83/Blake+Elliot+%28Xe+_+Xem+_+Xyr%29.jpg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Blake Elliott (Xe | Xem | Xyr) Stage Manager Blake is thrilled to be joining the Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival! Xe is an artist, advocate, academic, and proud member of the Queer community (well, of course!). Xe hopes to use xyr work in the arts to uplift voices from the margins and move us toward a better tomorrow. Off-Broadway: Drunk Shakespeare (Brass Jar Productions); the bandaged place (Roundabout); The Blood Quilt (Lincoln Center); Babe, Curse of the Starving Class (The New Group); On the Evolutionary Function of Shame (Second Stage); Terror is the Order of the Day (The Flea). Additional experience: iTheatrics, The New Harmony Project, Disney Theatrical Group, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Lyric Opera of Orange County. BS: University of Evansville. MFA: University of California, Irvine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/314305c1-2a77-478d-8fc7-89fd85f74356/Neeta+Thadani+%28they_he%29.png HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Neeta Thadani (they/he) Assistant Director Neeta Thadani (they/he) is a director, writer, performer, and dramaturg whose work primarily explores the South Asian American identity with a focus on queerness, caste privilege, and decolonization. As a creative leader, Neeta finds new ways to tell our oldest stories, uplifts the endless talents of their collaborators, and alchemizes theatrical performances into communal spaces where the barriers between performer and patron become blurred. Above all, Neeta is a theater artist who doesn’t pretend to have all the answers, but continues creating in order to find them. They are currently a Roundabout Directors Group 7 member and a proud Dramatists Guild member. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/700d97f8-3664-453c-bc40-958795c8f09b/Arturo+Lui%CC%81z+Soria.jpeg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Arturo Luíz Soria ISH Arturo Luíz Soria is an Obie and Offie Award-winning actor and writer. His solo show Ni Mi Madre premiered at Rattlestick Theater and went on to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, earning multiple award nominations. His play Novios was an honorable mention for the Relentless Award, developed/performed with Pride Plays at Wooly Mammoth Theatre, and recently accepted to the Latinx New Play Festival at La Jolla Playhouse. Soria is adapting the novel Bodega Dreams for screen with Black Bar Mitzvah Productions and Votiv Films. Theatre: Broadway’s The Inheritance; Wet Brain, Hit the Wall, Water by the Spoonful TV/Film: CIA, Found, Insatiable, The Blacklist, East New York, and the upcoming features: Mermaid and Pimp$hit. A MacDowell Fellow and Hillman Grad Mentorship alum, Arturo holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama and a BFA from The Theater School at DePaul University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/06ec5367-ac7c-45dd-9929-5a95a8305d90/Bekah+Zornosa+%28she_they%29.jpg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Bekah Zornosa (she/they) EM/DIANA TV/FILM: Trivially True Christmas (Hallmark), The Floaters (upcoming feature), Human Theories (upcoming feature), THEATRE: Broadway Workshop: The Lost Boys (dir. Michael Arden), A Hannukah Carol (Round House Theatre), King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company), ALIEN/NATION (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Dir. Michael Arden), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (North Shore Music Theatre), Pipeline (Everyman Theatre), We declare you a terrorist… (Round House Theatre), Sanctuary City (Arena Stage), There’s Always the Hudson (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), West Side Story Concert (Olney Theatre Center), She Sings Me Home reading (Round House Theatre). Bekah is repped by Stewart Talent and Kogen Management. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/b2a2c09e-0f0b-436c-b0ca-fef498b9e430/Janice+Amaya+%28they_them_elle%29.jpg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Janice Amaya (they/them/elle) MEL JANICE AMAYA (they/them/elle) is an actor, theatermaker, and educator. Recent theater credits: Orlando (Signature Theatre Company), Shhhh (Atlantic Theater Company), A Necessary Killing (Clubbed Thumb), Mushroom (People’s Light Theater Co), Cartography (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), Your Hair Looked Great (Abrons Arts Center). Film: God's Lonely Magician (Tribeca 2025), Patriot’s Day (Lionsgate, Dir. Peter Berg), Up North (Dir. Stefanie Abel Horowitz). Janice is a Co-Director at Pipeline Theatre Company. MFA, Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ec762216-df2c-41ab-8124-61ab96b65eb0/Nicola+Gorham+%28she_her%29.jpg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Nicola Gorham (she/her) SAM Nicola Gorham is an Actor and Performance Artist based in New York. Her work has appeared at La MaMa E.T.C., The Duplex and Joe’s Pub. Nicola attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her theater credits include ‘Transformation: The Christine Jorgensen Show’ (The Wild Project) Street Children & Superstitions (The New Ohio Theatre), Future St. (The Broad Museum) and Big Art Group’s Broke House at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Past film & TV credits include High Maintenance (HBO) and feature films Josie & Jack and Townhouse Confidential. She is represented by Clear Talent Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/135dfe1c-743c-4e33-bbb0-74002bf81426/Vico+Ortiz+%28they_them_theirs%29+%28elle_le_e%29.jpeg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Vico Ortiz (they/them/theirs) (elle/le/e) KAP TV/FILM: Trivially True Christmas (Hallmark), The Floaters (upcoming feature), Human Theories (upcoming feature), THEATRE: Broadway Workshop: The Lost Boys (dir. Michael Arden), A Hannukah Carol (Round House Theatre), King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company), ALIEN/NATION (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Dir. Michael Arden), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (North Shore Music Theatre), Pipeline (Everyman Theatre), We declare you a terrorist… (Round House Theatre), Sanctuary City (Arena Stage), There’s Always the Hudson (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), West Side Story Concert (Olney Theatre Center), She Sings Me Home reading (Round House Theatre). Bekah is repped by Stewart Talent and Kogen Management. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/871fe295-eb34-4651-bf13-bad644749e3e/Paola+Sanchez+Abreu+%28she_they%29.jpg HIRAETH OR, WHEN PLUTO WAS A PLANET - Paola Sanchez Abreu (she/they) Stage Directions Reader Paola Sanchez Abreu (she/they) is an actor, writer, voiceover artist and activist living in New York City. Her theatrical credits include Tell Them I'm Still Young w/Andre Braugher (NYSAF), Little Women (Primary Stages), and The Wolves (Lincoln Center). She has performed in workshops and productions with New York Stage and Film, Primary Stages, New Dramatists, INTAR, and Playwrights Realm. Paola’s TV credits include Chicago Med, Madame Secretary, The Code, and Law and Order SVU. She writes and performs sketch comedy and is a recent graduate of the conservatory at The Second City. She was a part of Gen180’s inaugural Climate Comedy Cohort, working to bring more comedy to address the climate. She is also a community organizer with local groups focused on urbanization and climate justice. www.paolasanchezabreu.com https://www.btb-nyc.com/limitless daily 0.75 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/6f9251ea-d815-4f53-aa5c-092ec44ab91a/her%29.jpg LIMITLESS - L Morgan Lee (she/her) Co-Conceiver/Director L Morgan Lee (she/her) is a Tony Award® nominated actress and storyteller known for her history-making turn in A Strange Loop on Broadway - a performance which also garnered her an Antonyo Award and a Drama League Distinguished Performance nomination. In London, she was seen playing artist Lili Elbe in a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl (currently in development). Other work includes well over a decade of Off-Broadway, Regional, International/National tours and concerts with artists from Paul McCartney to Our Lady J. In the studio, L Morgan was the voice of Ornate Williams in the Sugar Maple Series w. Fred Savage (Osiris Media) and can be found on Joe Iconis' album (Ghostlight Records), The Rainbow Lullaby Album (Broadway Records), and more. For more: @lmorganlee | lmorganlee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/2a25677d-4c3c-47a2-9c76-06a09fd25b11/Screen+Shot+2024-09-21+at+4.12.22+PM.png LIMITLESS - George Strus (they/them) Co-Conceiver George Strus (they/them) is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning trans non-binary Latiné producer and dramaturg. They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre: an Obie Award-winning new work development and community building hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2s+) theatermakers. Since the organization’s launch in July of 2022, Breaking the Binary Theatre has paid out over $500,000 to over 400 TNB2S+ artists. Commercially, they were a proud co-producer of HERE WE ARE and ILLINOISE (2024 Tony Nomination). Current co-producing credits include OH, MARY!, THE ROOMMATE, ROMEO + JULIET. Upcoming co-producing credits ALL IN, and THE LAST FIVE YEARS. They were awarded the 2024 Prince Fellowship (in association with Columbia University School of the Arts), receiving mentorship from Kristin Caskey, Sue Frost, Jeffrey Seller, Thomas Schumacher, and David Stone. www.georgestrus.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c429a035-ae32-44f3-8e1e-4d906454fee0/Adrian+Einspanier+%28they_them%29.JPG LIMITLESS - Adrian Einspanier (they/them) Writer Adrian Einspanier’s plays include Lunch Bunch (PlayCo and Clubbed Thumb; licensed by Concord Theatricals; in development for television with FilmNation), House Plant (New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door; Lambda Literary Award Finalist), I forgot to tell you (published in The Brooklyn Rail), and DEBT (co-written with reid tang, developed with Pride Plays, New York Stage and Film, and Breaking the Binary). A recipient of the Lotos Foundation Prize and a member of SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Working Farm and Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, Adrian teaches at NYU Tisch, the National Theater Institute, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is working on a new play commission for Darren Aronofsky‘s Protozoa Pictures and the LAMF’s Theater Fund. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7267d656-93a7-4872-8c6a-0820287f065e/Audley+Puglisi+%28they_them%29.JPG LIMITLESS - Audley Puglisi (they/them) Writer Audley Puglisi (they/them) is a playwright and poet. Fellowships include NYSCA/NYFA, The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, VONA/Voices, and Lambda Literary. They are a member of the Page 73 Writer’s Group, EST/Youngblood, and have been a resident at Djerassi and Blue Mountain Center, and a Pedagogies of Art for Social Change Fellow at Penumbra Theatre. Plays have been developed with Playwrights Horizons, Skylight Theatre, The Playwrights Realm, Page 73, Checkmark Productions, Mile Square Theatre, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Their writing has been published in Garage Magazine, Color Bloq, and elsewhere. Audley received a BA in Africana Studies from Oberlin College and an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/a56cdeb0-9e9b-41e6-8cf2-be529a4bb5f8/Bazeed+%28they_them%29.JPG LIMITLESS - Bazeed (they/them) Bazeed is a multi–award winning Egyptian immigrant, playwright, poet, performer, plant-dad, editor, curator, masticator, medical school dropout, licensed massage therapist, and very decent cook, living in Brooklyn. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose, poetry, plays, and pantry lists, their work across genres is published in print and online, while their plays have been performed on both sides of the Atlantic. Their work has been supported by the the Arab American National Museum, the Asian American Writers Workshop, Breaking the Binary, the Center for Fiction, the Dramatists Guild, Lambda Literary, LMCC, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sundance Institute, Queer Art Mentorship, and Trans Lab, among others. Their plays, prose, and poetry have been published or are forthcoming from Driftwood Press, The Evergreen Review, Foglifter, I Came for Couscous, Khöra, The Margins, Milk Press, Oberon Books, Palette, Poetry, Red Hen Press, and Saqi Books, among others. To procrastinate from facing the blank page, Bazeed talks to the multitudes of plants they maintain in their Brooklyn hermitage, and is a slow student of Arabic music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d1aeec23-e2f3-4006-af78-142863bdb6ed/Barsha+%28she_they%29.JPG LIMITLESS - Barsha (she/they) Writer Barsha won the Jonathan Larson Award for the score to Radiant Baby, (Public Theater) directed by George C. Wolfe. Composer credits: Songs From an Unmade Bed (NYTW), A Taste of Things to Come (with Hollye Levin, York Theatre) and her two one-woman shows Go To Your Womb and A Womb With a View (CAP21/Cherry Lane Theatre). Barsha originated roles/music director off-Broadway: Tony ‘N’ Tina’s Wedding and Charles Busch’s Swingtime Canteen. Music Director: Steven Sater/Serj Tankian’s world premiere of Prometheus Bound (ART - dir. Diane Paulus). Conductor: Karen O’s psycho opera Stop the Virgens! (St. Ann’s Warehouse and the Sydney Opera House). Songs recorded by: George Clinton, Rebecca Luker. Vocal arrangements: Yeah Yeah Yeah’s single Sacrilege and Lea DeLaria’s House of Bowie. Broadway: associate conductor of Jersey Boys, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, pianist: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Actor: In the Amazon Warehouse Parking (Playwrights Horizons, dir. Sivan Battat). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d02b685a-b5b3-4d84-9027-fc8f4b758d27/Dom+Martello+%28they_them_she%29.jpg LIMITLESS - Dom Martello (they/them/she) Writer Dom Martello is a transfemme theatermaker based in NY. Their work has been developed in collaboration with The Road Theater, The Workshop Theater, The Elif Collective’s FireWorks Lab, and The Strides Collective. Dom is a 2025 Celebration Theater Trans Lineage: Rites of Passage Commission Recipient to develop their play substantiation. They were a 2024 O’Neill NPC semi-finalist and the inaugural reading for the Blue Roses Project (artistic directors James McBride & Gideon Glick, directed by Jack Serio, Oct 2025) with their play RED TIDE. Dom is the co-founder of Ten Toes Theater Collective, a Truman Capote Fellow, and a Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting ‘27 Candidate. For contact and more, visit www.dom-martello.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/1068cddd-5030-4490-930b-9a71f552a753/Emmanuelle+Mattana+%28she_they%29.jpg LIMITLESS - Emmanuelle Mattana (she/they) Writer Emmanuelle Mattana (she/they) is an Australian actor, writer and maker passionate about telling stories that blend the playful with the political and connect with young, queer audiences. Her debut play 'Trophy Boys’ just closed its twice-extended Off-Broadway premiere, directed by Tony Award Winner Danya Taymor, and will soon tour Australia for a third time after sold-out audiences, critical acclaim and major award recognition. As a performer they are best known for leading three seasons of the International Emmy Kids® nominated tween series Mustangs FC (ABCMe) and Videoland (Netflix) which was awarded Best Comedy at Europe’s largest series festival, Seriesmania. Indie feature film 'Fwends', which she leads and co-wrote was awarded the Caligari Prize at the 75th Berlinale (2025), and her shorts have been commissioned by the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Creative Victoria and recognised at festivals internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d987c55b-ded7-4f73-968b-c261cd945264/JJ+Maley+%28he_they%29.jpeg LIMITLESS - JJ Maley (he/they) Writer JJ Maley is a writer, actor, and producer. His writing credits include Partial, He/She, 808 (Out on Film), and The Revival (Fault Line Theatre; Irons in the Fire Finalist). JJ is currently releasing an interactive romantasy novel, All That Remains of Magic, with Strands Fiction. He is also writing on several TV, film, and musical projects at various stages of development. As an actor, JJ starred in Steven Soderbergh's Command Z. JJ’s other performing credits include King of the Jews (Off- Broadway), This Really Happened (Tribeca), Farther Along, Esther Updates Her Book, and more. He is a Tony-Award Winner for A Strange Loop and four-time Tony-Nominated Producer. Other producing credits include Illinoise (Tony Nomination), What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony Nomination), Indecent (Tony Nomination), and Be More Chill. They are also the Founder and Executive Director of Queer Arts Coalition, where he recently partnered with BTB to bring Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink to Edinburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ca0bf7dc-c6d4-4dd8-861d-7d1b7ca24de1/Jordan+Ramirez+Puckett+%28they_them%29.jpg LIMITLESS - Jordan Ramirez Puckett (they/them) Writer Jordan Ramirez Puckett is a Chicanx writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Their plays include A Sapphic Family Christmas, Transitional Love Stories, Untitled Dad Play, Huelga, En Las Sombras, To Saints and Stars, A Driving Beat, Las Pajaritas, Restore, and Inevitable. These works have been produced and/or developed by Abingdon Theatre Company, Creede Repertory Theatre, Flint Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Intar Theatre, New Harmony Project, Playwrights Realm, San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, among others. Jordan was named a finalist for the 2022 Yale Drama Series Prize and is a 2024 graduate of the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. They are a current WP Theater Lab Fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0b92cd0a-fc43-470f-9b83-880d924f3654/Sam+Mueller+%28they_she%29.jpg LIMITLESS - Sam Mueller (they/she) Writer Sam Mueller [they|she] is a Chicago-born, Florida-raised, New York-based playwright. Their work includes At the Confluence of Creeks (2024-25 McKnight National Residency Finalist) and PIN. (2025 National Capital New Play Festival, 2023/2024 O’Neill NPC Finalist). Sam's plays Laced and 70.3 are available through Broadway Play Publishing. They are an alum of EST/Youngblood, Ucross Foundation, The New Harmony Project, The Road Theatre's Under Construction, Life Jacket Theater's Writers' Room, as well as a former Terrence McNally Fellow at Rattlestick Theater. They are a co-founder of Ten Toes Theater Collective, an NYC-based collaborative group of trans+ theater artists dedicated to the wellbeing and freedoms of TGNC people across the country. Sam is proud to be represented by Michael Finkle, WME. BS: Northwestern University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/28e52a49-79be-4e14-956b-0054afd6babe/Travis+Alabanza+%281%29.jpeg LIMITLESS - Travis Alabanza Writer Travis is a writer, performer and theatre maker. For stage, Travis wrote and performed in their debut show Burgerz which won the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sold out at Southbank Centre and Traverse Theatre and toured internationally. It was also voted one of The Guardian Readers Top Shows of The Year. Their play Overflow, which premiered at a The Bush, was met with critical acclaim including numerous four-star reviews and was shortlisted for the George Devine Award. Their play Sound of the Underground, premiered as part of the Royal Court's new season in 2023 to critical acclaim. Travis currently has a new show for stage in development with the Southbank Centre and Hackney Showrooms, and their project PUSH THE BUTTON is in development with Green Door Theatre in Australia. For screen, Travis is developing projects with Lookout Point and See Saw. Travis' debut book None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary was published in 2022 by Canongate and in the US by Feminist Press in 2023. It won the Jhalak Literary Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and was listed in TIME Magazine's 100 books of 2023. Their work has also earned them a place on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list 2021, the Dazed100 list and in 2023 as an Evening Standard's future stars of stage and screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c3ca46e8-719d-49cf-97ca-d9291cdf7192/Utkarsh+Rajawat+%28they_them%29.jpeg LIMITLESS - Utkarsh Rajawat (they/them) Writer Utkarsh is following the call of Rasha Abdulhadi, who they know of through “Notes on Craft” by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, to use their bio to uplift resistance efforts against the US-sponsored, Israeli genocide of Palestinians (which is one of a complex of linked imperialist genocides being wrought by the US, like those in Sudan, Congo, and Turtle Island). You can contribute to the movement by donating to the Sameer Project and individual campaigns, buying e-Sims, endorsing PACBI, attending an action, engaging in BDS. I hope more institutions are moved to full-throated support, with their words, their resources, their (divestment from Israeli) money, as Palestinian people like those of The Freedom Theatre have been asking for. You can contact PACBI@wawog.com if you have questions or concerns, including legal ones, about your cultural or academic organization’s commitment. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d386e83a-8c18-418e-a8a4-c8b768efcda3/Rachel+April+%28they_them%29.png LIMITLESS - Rachel Denise April (they/them) Stage Manager Rachel Denise April (they/them) is a Guyanese-American Stage Manager, who has studied Theatrical Design and Stage Management at the City College of New York. Select Credits include: Jordans (The Public Theater), The Mood Room (Big Dance Theater) Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group), soft (MCC) Chicken and Biscuits (Queens Theatre), The Baby Monitor (Different Translation), The Big Green Theater Festival (SuperHero Playhouse) The Hole (Zhailon Levingston), Neptune (Timothy DuWhite), , Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell (MTWorks), and The Fire This Time Festival 2015 (The Kraine Theater). They have worked on projects throughout the United States and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7d39d46d-99fd-4544-ab9a-eb37d3a97a5a/Noax+%28they_them%29+.jpeg LIMITLESS - Noax (they/them) Stage Directions Reader Noax (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Harlem. They have worked professionally in the entertainment industry for several years as an actor, singer, writer, producer, and advocate on the lands of the Munsee Lenape people (otherwise known as NYC). They seek to foster community and discover transformative practices that are rooted in equity, healing, and community building. www.noax.me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d6dc08a3-c1ca-43d1-9d9d-08d762b08344/Brian+Michael+Smith+%28he_him%29.jpg LIMITLESS - Brian Michael Smith (he/him) Performer BRIAN MICHAEL SMITH is an actor, filmmaker, and advocate best known for his groundbreaking role on FOX’s hit series 9-1-1: Lone Star, making history as the first Black openly trans man cast as a series regular on network television. Renowned for compelling performances in acclaimed series like Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar (OWN), Showtime’s The L Word: Generation Q and Homeland. As a filmmaker, his creative work explores nuanced themes of masculinity, resilience, and identity through a distinctly personal lens, championing meaningful representation for trans and Black communities. An impactful speaker and dedicated advocate, Brian draws from his journey as a former decorated scholar-athlete, educator, and LGBTQ+ youth mentor to inspire diverse audiences. Through his powerful storytelling and personal insights, he passionately advocates for acceptance, visibility, and societal change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f859e48b-dde8-4e45-89e6-7293de59fa6f/Justin+David+Sullivan+%28he_she_they%29.JPG LIMITLESS - Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they) Performer Justin David Sullivan (he/she/they) is a proud Mexicasian trans non-binary singer, actor, and artist based in New York City. Justin is known for their breakout role as May in the critically acclaimed pop-hit Broadway musical & Juliet. Justin is passionate about diversity and representation in the performing arts. They are a Queerty Pride50 Honoree, a 30 Under 30 select for the Advocate Magazine, a Live Out Loud Soaring Spirit Award honoree, and have also been the recipient of GLSEN’s Game Changer Award for their advocacy work for the LGBTQ+ community. @justindavidsullivan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8f289c54-383e-4898-a1c1-ab9d2a96d4a6/K.O+%281%29.+%28they_them%29.jpg LIMITLESS - K.O. (they/them) Performer K.O. (they/them) is a Tony Award-winning artist and educator committed to using their work to further collective liberation. They won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for their portrayal of Anita in the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story. They received a second nomination for their role as Satine in Moulin Rouge, The Musical. Their Broadway credits include originating the role of Vanessa in In the Heights. Their career also spans television, with appearances on "The Good Wife," "Law & Order: SVU," and "Harry's Law." Currently serving as Associate Professor and the Donald G. Robertson Director of Music Theatre Certificate Program at Northwestern University, they support organizations advancing equity, including Democracy Now and the ACLU. KO lives on the unceded ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk Nation and works on the lands of the Council of the Three Fires: Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Odawa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/48756bf9-2f54-4bfa-bb0b-02dcf7570ae3/Reed+Northup.JPG LIMITLESS - Reed Northrup Performer Reed Northrup is an actor and writer based in Brooklyn. FILM/TV: Logic's debut feature film Paradise Records, which premiered at Tribeca Festival, Kevin Smith's The 4:30 Movie, Relay, which debuted at TIFF and Tribeca Festival, and the voice of Javi on Adult Swim's Teenage Euthanasia. He will be appearing in Sav Rodgers' (Chasing Chasing Amy) film Pancake Skank in 2026. He has worked at The Guthrie, Breaking the Binary, The Flea, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and more. BA Sarah Lawrence College, MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama c/o 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/5f23b09d-b31c-4c84-8382-ac148439e099/Sandra+Caldwell+%28She_Her%29+.jpg LIMITLESS - Sandra Caldwell (she/her) Performer Sandra has been widely seen on television, including Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age (HBO, seasons 1/3; Dir. Deborah Kampeire), Fantasma (HBO; Dir. Julio Torres), Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (Netflix; Dir. Sam Feder), The Book of Negroes, 19-2, Soul Food, Little Men, Law & Order: SVU, Rookie Blue, Good Fences, Disney’s The Cheetah Girls, and many others. Film work includes The Jackie Shane Story (Dir. Michael Engle), Any Other Way (Bangor Films; Dir. Michael Mabbott), and in Maya Angelou’s directorial debut, Down in the Delta, to name only a few. In theater, Sandra appeared in her self-penned The Guide to Being Fabulous (Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto), Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons), Chicago (Stratford Festival), Charm (MCC Theater), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Shubert Theater); the Original Workshop for Ragtime (Live Ent. Productions); and was nominated for a Dora Award, Canada’s highest theater award, for her work in Sophisticated Ladies (Sterling Productions, Toronto). https://www.btb-nyc.com/punch-back daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fb9143a5-9585-48f3-9e8b-f8bba87ecf93/Genevieve+Simon+%28he_they%29.jpeg PUNCH BACK - Genevieve Simon (he/they) Writer Genevieve Simon (he/they) is an actor and playwright born in Ohio and based in New York. His work has been supported by Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, New Georges, Fresh Ground Pepper, Shadowland Stages, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arts on Site, The Motor Company, Oberlin College, Willamette University, Holton-Arms School, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, The Parsnip Ship, and The Tank. He is a 2025 NYSCA Commission Winner, a 2023-24 New Georges Audrey Resident, and was a member of the 2024 Page 73 Writers Group. His climate-doom-comedy BLOOM BLOOM POW was a Finalist for the 2022 EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and will be published in 2026. Genevieve’s plays include THIS BUG IS GAY, GUARDING, SISTER/FRIEND, and HELL IS REAL. Playwriting Lecturer, Skidmore College. www.genevieve-simon.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d8128558-2cde-4801-b592-fd1db33bf8da/Kedian+Keohan+%28they_he%29.jpg PUNCH BACK - Kedian Keohan (they/he) Director Kedian Keohan is a trans theater director and creator of live performances. Director: DeliaDelia! (The Brick/Edinburgh Fringe), reid tang’s ISABEL (NAATCO) and BOIDS (BTB workshop), Haruna Lee’s Let’s Sit Down (Say Gay Plays), Erin Markey’s First Lady (Bard Spiegeltent), Jimmy Fay’s Straight Wedding (Brown / Writing is Live). Associate Director: Morgan Bassichis’ Can I Be Frank? (Soho Playhouse), Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s Rheology (The Bushwick Starr), Ryan J. Haddad’s Dark Disabled Stories (The Public Theater/Bushwick Starr). Kedian is a 2025 Audrey Resident with Minna Lee and a 25/26 Resident Artist at The Cell with Utkarsh Rajawat. Kedian is a former Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, Soho Rep Writer/ Director Lab alum, and a regular collaborator of Julia Jarcho/minor theater. Upcoming: Nurit Chinn’s Godbird and Kaye Hurley’s :/secondplace (Exponential Festival, Director). @justkedian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/7733c176-8a59-4d50-a066-aa6b49305a2e/Bea+Perez-Arche+%28they_she%29.jpg PUNCH BACK - Bea Perez-Arche (they/she) Stage Manager Bea Perez-Arche (they/she) is a Queer Cuban-American Theatre Artist, currently freelancing as a Stage Manager & Director in New York City. They are glad to be returning for their 3rd year working with Breaking the Binary! They are currently the Production Stage Manager for the National Tour of HANG TIME by Zora Howard. She has mainly dedicated her talents to civic artistic programming and new work, collaborating with a range of institutions including: The Flea, The Civilians, One Whale’s Tale, Women’s Project, Little Island, Chelsea Factory, and Ballet Collective. She has primarily worked at the Public Theater on Shakespeare in the Park, the Under the Radar Festival, Public Works, and the Mobile Unit. She is an Associate Artist at Sanguine Theatre Company and received her BFA in Theater Arts from Boston University. Thank you Adalhia, John, and all my chosen family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/ae146976-9780-4988-a573-41de45c8f71a/Dezi+Tibbs+%28they_she%29.jpeg PUNCH BACK - Dezi Tibbs (they/she) Dramaturg Dezi Tibbs (they/she) is obsessed with exploring how we fabulate and perform our identities. As a freelance dramaturg, Dezi has facilitated the development of dozens of original and established plays and musicals with esteemed collaborators such as Sam Pinkleton, Lileana Blain Cruz, Max Vernon, Erin Courtney, and Truth Future Bachman. Dezi's work has been featured on stages and festivals nationwide including New York Theatre Workshop, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Powerhouse Theatre, Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center, Wilma Theater, Breaking the Binary, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. As a writer, Dezi has been published on The Civilians' Extended Play, the Public Theater website, TDF Stages, and most recently, "Role Models: Breaking Theatre’s Gender Binary, an Intergenerational Story" for American Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/cbca033e-2c93-44b2-9314-044c6dad7f2a/Alex+Might+%28her%29+%281%29.jpg PUNCH BACK - Alex Might (her) Fight Choreographer Alex is a fight and intimacy director based in Chicago. Film: Little One (Secret Beach). Broadway: POTUS. Select Off-Broadway and Regional: How to Defend Yourself (NYTW), In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons), RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Wolves (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Fight Call (Breaking the Binary), backstroke boys (Fault Line), TWITCH (Williamstown), The Scarlet Letter (Two River). www.alexmight.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/29637f2a-35ed-48b0-9b4a-9e8add25b379/Ashil+Lee+%28they_he%29.jpg PUNCH BACK - Ashil Lee (they/he) ANI NYC-based actor, playwright, director, and sex educator. Korean-American, trans nonbinary, child of immigrants, and best friend to pup, Huxley. 2023 Lucille Lortel nominee (Outstanding Ensemble: The Nosebleed). Colt Couer 25-26 Resident. Selected acting: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies… (World Premiere, Woolly Mammoth), The Nosebleed (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth, US & International Tour), Dogville (theatrical premiere, dir.Robert O’Hara). Selected playwriting: Relentless 2024 Semi-Finalist (Me No Know Korean), ‘Pericles: Prince of Tyre’ adapted with Mark Wing-Davey (NYU: Grad Acting), Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group (23-24), Pataphysics with Clare Barron (2020). Selected directing: Coach Coach, US Drag (NYU: MSNR). Education: NYU Tisch. BFA: Acting, Minor: Youth Mental Health. www.ashillee.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0b5e6fff-4c53-4f23-920f-3aadf86b007d/Ashton+Mun%CC%83iz+%28they_he%29.png PUNCH BACK - Ashton Muñiz (they/he) NAOMI Ashton Muñiz (they/he) is an actor, artist, & activist. Super happy to returning to the BTB stage! Ashton will be making their screen debut in Maggie Gyllenhal’s feature film The Bride this spring. Recent acting credits include Keelay Gipson’s demons, Andrew Rincon's I Wanna F*ck Like Romeo & Juliet, Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance on Broadway, Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music. Ashton has also been seen in productions Off-Broadway at Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theatre, Cherry Lane and more! Recently, Ashton has collaborated with various artists/featured in their works around the world at The Guggenheim, Art Institute Chicago, Swiss Institute, New Museum, CND(Paris), Lehmann Maupin and Pace Gallery.Training: Ithaca College, Moscow Arts Theatre School, Shakespeare & Co, Hillman Grad Mentee. @arshton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/550ee7ce-507d-4270-a87c-ed2f274a679d/Che+Kabia+%28they_them%29.jpeg PUNCH BACK - Che Kabia (they/them) SAM Che Kabia (they/them) is thrilled to return to the Breaking the Binary Festival. A Northeast-based actor, dramaturg, poet, and technician, Che’s work celebrates identity, play, and cultural connection. A first-generation transmasc Sierra Leonean artist, they bridge the classical and contemporary through text and clown. Che is a 2025–2026 Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, a Resident Actor at Mercury Store in Gowanus, and an Apprentice with Theater Mitu. They hold a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University. Recent credits include Twelfth Night (Folger Theatre), Notice to Appear (Visual Echo/La MaMa), and Richard III (SoHo Shakespeare Company). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/62b58ecd-7f45-49b5-aedd-fe4597d44159/Daphne+Always+%28she_her%29.JPG PUNCH BACK - Daphne Always (she/her) MAEVE Daphne Always is a performing artist with over a decade of experience in New York nightlife, stage, and screen. She’s a resident hostess at Alan Cumming's East Village cabaret Club Cumming and the LES theater the Slipper Room. Recently, her short film SECONDS with Emmy-nom Amanda Mustard was selected in the Tokyo International, Rome International, and Couch Film Festivals. Daphne performed the role of "Regina" in The Voices In Your Head, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/c898b05d-a6d4-4b0d-98df-2cf5bd28c599/Sagan+Chen.jpg PUNCH BACK - Sagan Chen KEI Sagan is seeking representation, and seeking liberation for all. The daily fight continues for a free falastin. Most recently seen in i know with iris chang died by BTB artist Esmé Maria Ng, and proud to have supported new work in NYC with companies including NYTW, NAATCO, Rattlestick, Ars Nova, Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout, Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Realm, National Queer Theater, and most importantly, Breaking the Binary every year since its inception. Onscreen: Survival of the Thickest (Netflix/A24), Grand Crew (NBC), High Maintenance (HBO), films at Tribeca, Newfest, Outfest, Sundance, NYCIFF, AAIFF. Sagan has co-created two award-winning digital series called Here We Wait and Sideways Smile. Heard in the Audible Original The 126 Year Old Artist, and narrating the audiobooks: This Way to Happy, Ana On the Edge, All The Things We Don’t Talk About, The Jump. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/0c05f3c9-6287-437e-b14e-4c831a1ba87b/Smith+Alfieri+%28he_they%29.jpg PUNCH BACK - Smith Alfieri (he/they) EMERSON Smith is a Brooklyn-based actor/musician/bodyworker and is absolutely thrilled to be involved with Breaking the Binary. Some favorite credits include: BLOOM BLOOM POW (A.R.T/NY), Twelfth Night (The Acting Company), Now Becomes Then (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Food For The Gods (La MaMa), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare on the Sound) TV: New Amsterdam (NBC), Extrapolations (AppleTV+). @youvegot.smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/408d5906-b6b9-4682-89b3-8c3a2022d564/Vann+Dukes+%28they_them%29.jpeg PUNCH BACK - Vann Dukes (they/them) FRANKIE Vann Dukes (they/them) is an actor and artist from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and now based in Brooklyn. Select credits include This Is Government (59E59 Theaters), Henry V and Love’s Labor’s Lost (Smith Street Stage), and A Raisin in the Sun (The Public Theater). They are also member of the Mercury Store Acting cohort. Endless thanks to Breaking the Binary for having me <3. and to tyler, I love you always. vanndukes.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/00713eb5-1ae1-42df-906c-668616b20c3e/Lisa+Stephen+Friday+%28she_her%29.jpg PUNCH BACK - Lisa Stephen Friday (she/her) Stage Directions Reader Lisa Stephen Friday (she, Her) is a Singer, Musician, Actor and playwright/composer. Her most notable work is her one woman musical TRANS AM which had it’s world prime at the Keegan Theater in Washington DC in 2022. She is also the composer of Doll/Girl A New Musical about the artist Greer Lankton. Lisa is a New York Voices commissioned artist with Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater where she is developing a brand new musical. In 2025 she received an FY2025 artist grant through the New York State Council on the Arts. Lisa has worked as an actor and singer for over 30 years. Performing in numerous regional productions in theater such as Goodspeed Opera House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Ordway Theater as well as the National touring company of the Buddy Holly Story. https://www.btb-nyc.com/remembrance daily 0.75 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/85fa4b46-9691-4c88-ad6d-d920b87b2acf/1.png REMEMBRANCE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d6cb9f82-bc4b-427d-bf3c-61160c5550c9/B+Noel+Thomas.jpeg REMEMBRANCE - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/649525d2-3236-49d1-9413-a17e3aab19cd/Ianne+Fields+Stewart+2025.jpg REMEMBRANCE - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/11c5a030-e740-477a-9c39-ee26c77625e4/Julie+J.jpeg REMEMBRANCE - 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/d9e98bb9-5346-40a3-91bf-307755ed7d48/Kailin+Brown.jpeg REMEMBRANCE - 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/8e7308c4-7412-4d2a-bfd2-deb2e866b9b4/Mei+Ann+Teo.jpeg REMEMBRANCE - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/f3d9857f-b03b-4870-b2ec-b4bcaef8178d/Morgan+Bassichis.jpg REMEMBRANCE - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/31a36ed1-65ed-4953-a69c-27c0528023f2/N%E2%80%99yomi+Allure+Stewart.jpeg REMEMBRANCE - 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/89699ba9-8707-4a87-8568-2d469c34cc30/Sara+Ramirez.webp REMEMBRANCE - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/01e7d41c-5c39-45ef-9aca-1a2fc509a1b7/Storm+Thomas.jpg REMEMBRANCE - Storm Thomas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad06d85c7e623f4ef27c60/fdb724ca-e928-468e-8c2c-38eda03f8b07/Ty+Defoe.jpg REMEMBRANCE - 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