"QT's Presents... JOY!" is the first all-transgender and gender nonconforming improv team to perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The show, held monthly, emphasizes the need for representation on stage, giving a voice to marginalized identities. Team members express that performing in this space offers them joy and a platform to live their truths boldly. They hope the audience feels seen and understood during performances. The initiative showcases the growth of diversity in theater and its essential role in promoting visibility and inclusion for the transgender community.
We're the first all-gender non conforming team, and the show is called 'Joy,' but it brings such joy to see people seek us out because they want to see themselves on stage.
Being loud and trans and in public and living your truth is like, it's a radical decision to choose self and to choose expression and to choose joy over conformity or even safety.
I want them to leave feeling like seen... heard... safe. That was cathartic. Someone is speaking my language.
To see the amount of growth that's just happened in the time we've been here in all aspects of unique voices and diversity...representation matters, right?
#transgender-representation #improv-theater #lgbtq-inclusion #upright-citizens-brigade #community-and-joy
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