TGI2S Fest: Gender Expansive Reading Festival
presented by Sacred Fools & Act Now
FRI-SUN, SEPT. 13-15, 2024
Pay-What-You-Can | See below for ticket links
MASKS REQUIRED
A celebration of TGI2S (Transgender, Intersex and Two-Spirit) writers and performers!
TGI2S FEST is a celebratory staged reading festival spotlighting independent pieces created and performed by members of the transgender and non-binary community. This festival stands as a platform for artists to unite, uplift one another, and commemorate independent artistic endeavors.
Half of all proceeds will go to The Queer 26, a 501(c)3 media arts non-profit supporting QTBIPOC creatives; the other half will go to the TGI2S Fest committee.
MASKING POLICY
MASKING IS REQUIRED FOR ALL PERFORMANCES. All audience members must wear a mask over nose and mouth the entire time you are in the building. The Box Office will be able to offer some masks for free but please come prepared.
STAY HOME IF YOU ARE ILL: If you or someone in your group doesn't feel well, has exhibited symptoms of COVID-19 or has been in contact with someone with COVID-19 in the previous 10 days, we ask that you forego attending for the safety of our cast, crew and audience.
Cast & crew are tested before each performance.
TICKET LINKS
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PROGRAMMING BLOCKS
FULL PROGRAM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 - OPENING NIGHT PARTY! 7-10pm
On the
Broadwater Mainstage, 1076 Lillian Way
ASL Interpretation Provided (tonight
only)
SHORT:
It's Time by Jase Alan (they/them/guuurrrl)
SHORT: Oftly Kind
by Elli Luke (they/she)
FULL LENGTH: There Is Evil In This House by Natalie
Nicole Dressel (she/her)
TICKETS FOR OPENING NIGHT
"It's Time" - Content Warning: Drug use, gay slurs, graphic sexual images, vulgar language. After a night of partying, drugs, sex & missing out, Miki decides it's time to make a change.
"Oftly Kind" - Content Warning: Vulgar language, endangerment, implied violence. A plane is crashing with no chance of salvation and a flight of passengers devolve into utter chaos leaving the pilots to come to terms with their mortality, apologies, and what they mean to each other.
"There Is Evil in this House" - Content Warning: Child abuse, domestic abuse, horror and supernatural scenes, transphobia, homophobia, religious trauma. It's the story of a pop culture obsessed Transgender woman who looks back on growing up in a haunted house, coming out to her mother, and the demons that haunt her still.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 - BLOCK ONE, 3-5:30pm
In the Broadwater
Black Box, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
The
Roundtable by Kyro Lanay Davis (they/he)
Cravings by Ariel Mahler
(she/her)
Just, Girls by Lavender Alexandria (she/her)
Black Sheep by
Wy'Kia Frelot
Five and a Half Dads by Sabrina Ariss
TICKETS FOR BLOCK 1
"The Roundtable" - Content warning: Cursing, discussion of sex.
"Cravings" - Content warning: Graphic descriptions of blood, death and violence; pregnancy/fertility; breastfeeding. When a stalwart trans woman and her wife run out of food in a zombie-infested wasteland, they venture to the grocery store, where a fight for their lives results in a surprising addition to their family.
"Just, Girls" - Content warning: Depression, explicit language, sex. In a rapid-fire dark comedy, four jaded young queer women cope with their troubles by satirizing their jobs, their partners, their lifestyles, and most importantly, each other.
"Black Sheep" - Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault (mentioned, but not shown), Incest (mentioned, but not shown), Transphobia. When a young transwoman estranged from her family goes to her late grandmother's funeral, she must face her mother and the family secrets that surround the elders of her family.
"Five and a Half Dads" - Content warning: Death of a mother, eye injury. This year Kayla turns 11, and someone's changed all the rules. Everyone at her middle school is acting weird now, and at home, her five highly-underqualified dads have moved in to care for her (or ruin her life).
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 - BLOCK TWO, 7:30-10pm
In the
Broadwater Black Box, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
SHORT
FILM: Hey Val by Sophie Sagan-Gutherz (they/them)
Testosterone Quest by Spencer
Ryan Locke (they/them/he/him)
Lola by Reese Fernandez (they/them)
I Hate You, T Monroe
by Victoria Moniz (he/she/they)
Chosen Families by Jack MacCarthy
(he/him/they/them)
TICKETS
FOR BLOCK 2
"Hey Val" - Content Warning: Suicide. When a young nonbinary person returns to the bedroom of their dead partner, they must confront their grief, along with the ghost of their lover.
"Testosterone Quest" - Content Warning: Intense misgendering & sword fighting (violence). When Benjamin tries to start testosterone, he encounters a number of unnecessary difficulties.
"Lola" - Content Warning: Alcoholism. In this dramedy pilot, Haliya is confronted by the ghost of her Lola to address deep-seated issues she's been running from for most of her life.
"I Hate You, T. Monroe" - Trigger Warning: Drug use, violence (physical and verbal). On the day of college softball tryouts, a high-school athlete is accidentally locked in a classroom with her ex-best-friend. They argue while locked in and the fight escalates as they re-live their falling out.
"Chosen Families" - This script contains: Adoption trauma, unplanned pregnancy, mentions of suicide, Prince's death, death of a pet, theft of a pet, religious fanaticism, frank discussion of abortion, anaphylactic shock, poverty, unethical non-monogamy, bad but consensual sex, mentions of overdosing, ankle injuries, dumpster diving, 2016. When a broke, self-absorbed millennial gets pregnant in 2016 Bushwick, she must decide whether to place the baby for adoption. As she turns for help to the queer artsy friend group she's alienated with her reckless behavior, she discovers that family is sometimes where you least expect it.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 - BLOCK THREE, 3-5:30pm
In the Broadwater
Black Box, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Disrupt by Zam Zam (they/them)
When I Was Little by
Camille Ora-Nicole (she/they)
Cloudmakers by Pastiche Queen (they/them)
Wadeha at the End by Victoria
Xashara-Prescott (they/she)
TICKETS
FOR BLOCK
3
"Disrupt" - Content Warning: Discussion of suicide. A non-binary PhD student grappling with schizophrenia leads a high-stakes fight against an unethical university while battling their own inner demons and navigating a chaotic love life.
"When I Was Little" - A historic preservationist must contend with her painful past to save her childhood home from being demolished and prevent its residents from becoming houseless.
"Cloudmakers" - Content Warning: Grief, Loss, Self-harm, Situationships, Drugs, and Alcohol. What happens to a found family when the person holding them together passes away? What if your grief showed up to help you through the first night? Follow a group of young queers as they process a profound and unexpected loss.
"Waheda at the End" - Content warnings: s*icidal ideation, s*icidal attempt (reference), mental illness, OCD, anxiety, depression, family tension, flashbacks hinting towards accidental h*rm of others. A 30-minute, surrealist dark comedy about a ragtag crew's mission to heal their city when mental illness (and reactive grandmother magic!) turns everyone into household objects.
Crew
Produced for Sacred Fools by Scott Leggett (he/him)
Produced for
Act Now by Jase Alan (they/them/guuurrrl)
Stage Manager - Jay Dutcher
(she/her/he/him)
ASL Interpreters (9/13) - Amaya
Navarro (she/her) & Gemini (v/ver/vers, they/them/theirs)
Key Art -
Lalo-Félix Caldera
(he/ya)
TGI2S Fest Committee:
Sade Keinu (they/them)
Victoria Xashara-Prescott (they/she)
Cenizo Bravo
(they/them/elle)
Jase Alan (they/them/guuurrrl)
Lalo-Félix Caldera
(he/ya)
Natalie Nicole Dressel (she/her)
Camille Ora-Nicole (she/they)
