We are very excited to announce the title of our 2014 production: Aboard the Raging Queen. We are also excited to announce our 2014 crowdfunding campaign. Click here to make a contribution today!

Professional theater artists and community-based practitioners Tim Connell, Kevin Ray, and Sherry Teitelbaum are co-directing a devised play using the sights, sounds, and colorful characters we might see onboard a cruise ship as the point of inspiration.

Bridging the Gap, now in its fourth year, is a twelve-week intergenerational LGBTQ theater project, offered free to participants. During the course of weekly workshops held in Chelsea, group members collaborate to create an original 45-minute play through improvisation, group reflection, and revision. The show presents issues and ideas that matter to our participants. Group members also build theater skills, celebrate difference, challenge their assumptions about age and have fun!

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Bridging the Gap offers a platform to amplify voices from within the LGBTQ population that are frequently ignored/not considered, from both ends of the age spectrum. This year our LGBTQ group members range in age from 18 to 90 years old! Their alternate perspectives are not the dominant voices we normally hear in LGBTQ discourse. For this reason we believe it is urgent to keep both our weekly workshops and our performance accessible by removing economic barriers to participation. In order for these programs to remain free, we need your support. Without it, we cannot pay for artists’ fees for the three co-directors, theater rental, costumes, props, sets and transportation. We need $4,600 to bring this project to the stage.You can help subsidize this vital community-based theater project by making your donation now. Read More...

Tags: Aboard the Raging Queen, LGBTQ, Crowdfunding, devised theater, Playbuilding, Intergenerational

Bridging the Gap is back for our 4th year! We are currently recruiting participants for our free project. It is an intergenerational theater project designed to spark conversations across the LGBTQ generation gap by creating original theater. Using theater games and improvisation, group members will develop and perform an original show. No prior experience with theater is necessary to participate. The project meets on Saturday afternoons beginning September 27th. It is open to people between the ages of 18 and 25 or 60 and up who self-identify as LGBTQ. If you or someone you know would be interested, send us an email by clicking here.

Tags: LGBTQ, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intergenerational, Theater