The Theater Offensive

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️
Although TTO recognizes the beauty and value of trans and non-binary lives everyday, we will gladly take any moment to celebrate those with the courage to live boldly as themselves. We honor you!

Earlier this month, we hosted a day of conversations, performances, and mutual aid in partnership with to commemorate this special day!

Thank you Teasha Purdy and for your heartfelt reflections during “Arrivals: Stories of Becoming,” moderated by our Executive & Artistic Director, Giselle Byrd. This was an inspiring conversation that is still resonating with us all.

Before the conversations and performances, we hosted a mutual aid market where we offered resources and products to the community. Thank you to everyone who donated supplies, volunteered and sent messages of support. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Special thanks to our incredible surprise performers and who honored Teasha and Coach Justice! Did you all know that each of these superstars are alums of our True Colors youth program? What a full circle moment for us. Thank you divas for your artistry.

Thank you so much to our community for always proving that there is an audience for the work we feel is most impactful. It means so much that you continue showing up for us in person and we don’t take it for granted.

Happy TDOV y’all! 🏳️‍⚧️

📸 Photos by Craig Bailey of Perspective Photo

The Theater Offensive & LGBTQ+ Elders of Color are commemorating Trans Day of Visibility with a mutual aid market and Arrivals: Stories of Becoming, Saturday, March 21st at the BCA Plaza Theatre!

We're hosting a mutual aid market from 12-2pm where our community can stock up on non-perishable food items, hygiene products, school supplies, and medical supplies.

Following the mutual aid market, we will be in conversation with Coach Justice and Teasha Boo, moderated by TTO Executive & Artistic Director, Giselle Byrd.

Visit www.thetheateroffensive.org/events to register.

If you'd like to donate to our mutual aid market please email [email protected]

You're invited to a staged reading of Where the Black Boys Are, written by Jameson P. Murray based upon the poetry of Marvin K. White.

Where the Black Boys Are is a choreopoem that follows four black men trying to grieve the end of their boyhood. When their support group begins to transform the real world, they must dare to fly to find freedom.

Join us Friday, November 21st at 7pm at the BCA for the reading as well as a community healing circle and post-show conversation. This performance will have open captions provided by Think Outside the Vox. Masks are required and will be provided. Thank you for helping us make this a safer & accessible space for all.

Tickets and more information in bio!

Playrwight: Jameson P. Murray
Director: JulianX
Choreographer: Diovanna Obafunmilayo Frazier
Dramaturg: Des Bennett
Producer: Oliver Rizzo
Sound Designer: Anna Drummond
Lighting Designer: Val Zhao
Stage Designer: Melee L

Celebrating the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. Tribute written by TTO Executive & Artistic Director, Giselle Byrd.

Thank you Miss Major for living boldly, lovingly, and authentically.

The True Colors Troupe is now accepting applications for our next ensemble!
In this program, youth work with teaching artists to create and develop skills in performance, social justice, and community activism.

This is a paid opportunity featuring workshops, games, storytelling, choreopoems and more! We're offering an identity affirming space to develop professional and social skills. This ensemble meets in-person on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, with Fridays reserved for excursions. Apply today! We would love to have you!

Visit www.thetheateroffensive.org/true-colors to apply and email [email protected] for more info!

TTO is coming to PTown!
On August 15, 2025, TTO is coming to Provincetown for the first time in years! Please join us for an early evening gathering where you’ll get to know our work, our artists, and our vision while connecting with new and old friends!

Date: August 15, 2025
Time: 5:30PM-8:30PM
Location: The Commons - Provincetown, MA
Your Hosts: Neil Jacobs, Jeff Peters, and The Theater Offensive

Enjoy beer, wine, and light bites catered by Bespoke Soirees, and see drag and spoken word performances from TTO artists Neon Calypso, Amanda Shea, and Letta Neely! You’ll hear from these artists, plus TTO Executive Director Giselle Byrd, about what it’s like to be a Black q***r and trans creative making art for liberation in this moment. PLUS, we’ll be raffling off some amazing goodies from some of your favorite Provincetown businesses.

Tickets and more information available via our website, www.thetheateroffensive.org

See y'all there!

It was an honor to share and uplift q***r and trans people of color, their voices and their work as artists of Q***R [RE]PUBLIC FESTIVAL. In partnership with The Theater Offensive, Think Outside the Vox provided and supported the festival’s Accessibility with Open Captions, a tactile tour, Audio Description and ASL interpretation with creatively and culturally competent teams.

ID 1: Group photo of TTO and Vox team members smiling at the Audio Description table in the lobby under purple and pink lighting. The table has a box of receivers and headsets, the transmitter and microphone, a scale model of the stage for In The Space Between at Arrow Street Arts, some sheer and mesh cuts of fabrics that the dancers wore. To the right of the table is Vox’s stand-up banner which has the logo, website, and tagline “at the intersection of Disability Justice & Arts Revolution. Standing behind the table from right to left: Des Bennett, a Black trans person with long locs half up in a bun half down wears a swirly multicolor button-down robe, beaded jewelry and a mask. Eddie Maisonet, an afroboricua, disabled, q***r, trans person wearing round glasses, a mask, silver jewelry, a purple Vox lanyard and shirt. Kwaku Darko, a dark-skinned African man who stands at 5’8 with an average build, short black hair and short beard that frames his face and chin wears a sunglasses, a turquoise shirt, Vox lanyard and jeans. Ingrid O’Dell, a tall white woman with blonde hair, blue eyes and freckles wears all black, a mask and a Vox lanyard. Sam Gould, an Ashkenazi Jewish woman with salt and pepper hair tied back wears a mask, a purple Vox shirt, lanyard and black and white patterned pants. Giselle Byrd, a Black Trans woman and Executive Director of The Theater Offensive with big brown curly hair wears a geometric black and brown patterned dress, a black leather jacket over her shoulders, big silver hoops and a pink scarf headband.

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In The Space Between by Victoria Lynn Awkward is a river toward care and liberation. It is our honor to present four performances of this work at our inaugural Q***r [Re]public Festival which opens TODAY!

Victoria, in our 22-months together we've seen you evolve as an artist, human, and leader. You are an example of many Q***r Liberatory Aesthetics in action, particularly Wholeness, Emotional Risk, and Tenderness:
"This is how the spell works. We take care of ourselves, we take
care of each other, we take care of our people."

Thank you for trusting us to produce this work with you. Anyone who experiences this piece will leave with a deeper sense of wonder and curiosity about their place in the world. Thank you for the portals.

To our TTO community, we want to ensure that anyone who would like to experience this work is able to, so we are offering a promo code to get a free ticket (while supplies last) using code TTOFAM which you can enter on the ticketing page where it says "Voucher Code." The Theater Offensive is a space for artists by artists, so we want to ensure the price is not a barrier for anyone.

We'll see you all tonight for our opening reception. Be ready to dance!

All Photography by Hakeem Adewumi

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