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Photos of the 2025 LHIFTB cast by Marie Finch-Koinuma. @mariesphotographystudio
Friends! In anticipation of Let's Hear It For the Boys: A Transmasc Cabaret 2026 (coming up on June 20th!), please join me for an evening of come-as-you-are networking and connection at one or both of the following for trans theatre workers:
🧡 Tuesday, May 26th, 2026, 5-7pm: Trans/TGNC2S+ Theatre Workers Mixer at Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, NY 10036)
🧡 Saturday, May 30th, 2026, 4-6:30pm: Transmasculine Theatre Workers Mixer at Brooklyn Art Haus (24 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Both events are free to attend with RSVP at tinyurl.com/LHIFTBmixers (link in my bio).
Light refreshments will be provided. Bar/café will be open for purchases at both venues.
Allies welcome; please engage respectfully. Venue staff reserve the right to remove disruptive attendees at any time.
Signature Center and Brooklyn Art Haus are wheelchair accessible. LHIFTB is committed to making our events accessible to all. If you require an accommodation or service in order to join us, please email [email protected] at least 7 days prior to the event/s of your choosing.
Questions, comments, concerns? DM or email [email protected].
Let's Hear It For the Boys is Stage Left Report-approved! 🤝✔️🌟 @stageleftreport
In-person AND livestream tickets are available now! Livestream tickets give you access to the video recording for up to a week after the performance. Grab yours now at tinyurl.com/LHIFTB26 and support our team of all-transmasc and trans man artists. 🎟️
"Let's Hear It For the Boys is so beautiful and quietly radical. Not only do you get to experience an entire night of top-tier New York City performers, but you know that the money you spend for your ticket is funding an entirely transmasculine and trans man cohort of theater workers. You don't see many performances that are so consistently embodying the values they present onstage." — Stage Left Report
Pictured: LHIFTB 2025 cast. From L-R: Val Quinonez, Feral Thing/Linnea Scott, Thani Brant, Frank Barret, Sushma Saha, Jonice Bernard. Photo by Marie Finch-Koinuma (@mariesphotographystudio ).
My 10 favorite shows of 2026 so far:
1. Trash (at Perelman Performing Arts Center, March 7-28)
2. Watch Me Walk (at Playwrights Horizons, January 14-February 15, part of UTR Festival)
3. TRY/STEP/TRIP (at A.R.T./NY, January 8-25, part of UTR Festival)
4. * Mexodus (at Daryl Roth, March 6-June 14)
5. * CATS: The Jellicle Ball (at Broadhurst, March 18-September 6)
6. RECONSTRUCTING (at Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, January 9-11, part of UTR Festival)
7. * The Rocky Horror Show (at Studio 54, March 26-November 29)
8. Parched (at HERE Arts, February 17-March 1)
9. OFF THE RECORD: Acts of Restorative Justice (at HERE Arts, April 5-19)
10. * Animal Wisdom (at Signature Theatre, May 6-June 14)
* denotes an ongoing production
"The future is trans, and the present is also very trans." — Charlie Hano
Please help me celebrate Charlie's history-making turn on TITANÍQUE and DOG DAY AFTERNOON by sharing this post far and wide! In a record-setting Broadway season of transfemme representation onstage, here is a trans guy who is tirelessly advocating for trans performers offstage.
Charlie Hano, C.S.A. (he/him) is a three-time Artios Award-winning casting director, producer, and gender consultant based in NYC. For the past five years, he’s worked with The Telsey Office.
Selected casting credits include: Dog Day Afternoon (Broadway); Mother Play (Broadway); Titanique (Broadway, Daryl Roth); Work In Progress (Season Two - Showtime); Trophy Boys (MCC); Camino Real (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Apiary (Second Stage); 808 (Queer Arts Coalition INC); The Christine Jorgensen Show (HERE ARTS, 59E59); The Life (ENCORES! City Center); Toros (Second Stage); Quiet Part Loud (Monkeypaw/Gimlet Media); The Far Country (Atlantic Theater); On The Evolutionary Function of Shame (Second Stage); MUD (Mabou Mines - Winner of a 2020 Obie Award for Best Direction).
Charlie is the resident casting director for Breaking the Binary Theatre and a founding member of IN HOUSE, an affinity group for transgender and nonbinary CSA Members. Alumnus of New York Theatre Workshop's 2050 Casting Fellowship. Key, Ring of Keys. Proud transgender man.
#CastingBy @csacasting@thetelseyoffice@thetonyawards@charliehano
I've been a part of FIGHT BACK since the pilot event and I've talked about it before, but this month is special because there are THREE chances to check it out! 🩷
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You've never experienced anything like this before. The premise of this theatrical experiment is simple: It’s the March 13, 1989 meeting of ACT UP New York, the passionate group taking direct action to fight AIDS. But — and here’s the experiment — there are no actors and there’s no audience. Everyone who comes is a participant at the meeting. You'll get a biographical profile of your persona and instructions for how to engage. Some (self-selected) people will also get details about specialized roles they’ll have at the meeting. All of the personas are actual people who were (or likely were) at the meeting.
Everyone uses some of the skills an actor uses, and there’s a bit of preparation involved, but you absolutely don’t need to be an actor to participate.
• May 4th, 11th, 18th
• 7pm at the Center (208 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
• $19.89 suggested donation, with cost alternatives available when you sign up
READ MORE AND SIGN UP → fightback.nyc
📣 Casting Announcement!
Welcome @maxraymond_ !
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Max Raymond (he/him) is a queer multidisciplinary artist living in NYC. Recently, on stage: DADDY: a love story (Voxel); Paradise Lost in Space (PH); Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead (Prospect); Too Bright to See, My Immortal: A Fanfiction of a Fanfiction, The Pigeon, PoserCorpse, Velvet Rage (Tank); Waco Boy Club (Fire Island); The Trojans (cell, Loading Dock); Why We Celebrate Juneteenth (Black Spectrum Theatre); The Wolves (gender-expansive prod., SoHo Playhouse); Death Avenue Posse (High Line); In Camera (Troy Foundry); In the Castle of Eternal Sunset (Brick Aux). On film: 808, Capricious Company, Possessive Nature, The Hat Box. Rep: Inclusive Management. Peace for trans kids. IG @maxraymond_ / maxraymond.org
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HUGE series update coming May 4th, keep an eye out!
“Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people’s hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.” —Paul Robeson
"The Artist Must Take Sides: Culture & The Movement Past, Present, & Future" begins tonight @peoplesforumnyc , and I encourage my artist friends to join me for this free six-week course! You don't have to live in NYC — you can attend virtually and access the course materials online later even if you can't tune in live. It's not too late to sign up, even after the first session meets.
Tonight's class explores art and culture within the context of society and the economy. In whose interest, and for what purpose, do we produce art?
Sign up: peoplesforum.org/takesides
📸 @marcjfranklin , from Broadway Advocacy Coalition's 2024 Theater of Change WIP Presentation
Arrietta and I met as freshmen in high school. I was deeply uncool and deeply self-conscious about being uncool, and it felt like a fluke that Arrietta liked me. It was huge for my self-esteem that we were friends — I remember thinking, "this must mean I'm doing something right." We were codependent in the way only 14-year-olds can be: we would stay up late gushing about our shared crushes and making up album track titles (posted to Facebook, a real sign of the times). We passed our journals back and forth, annotating each other's entries, adding our own commentary.
Here we are 16 years later, still friends. Tonight, I got to watch her marry the love of her life, a truly good man who has always seen her light and her magic. I am so grateful. Congrats Arrietta and Sam 🤍
From the 2026 Artios Awards, where Charlie took home his third Artios (and looked SO HOT). Outstanding Achievement in Casting for his work on The Jonathan Larson Project 🩵
