LGBTQ Devised Piece LANDMARKS & TRANSFORMATIONS Begins at Episcopal Actors' Guild Tonight

The award-winning Project Y Theatre Company, in collaboration with EAG's Open Space Grant, will present a new work of devised theatre, "Landmarks & TRANSformations." created by an ensemble of LGBTQ artists, writers, performers, and activists, tonight, February 18, and February 19, 23, 24, & 25, at the Episcopal Actors' Guild, 1 East 29th Street, NYC.

As LGBTQ rights become once again threatened, 18 Queer writer/performers have responded by devising "Landmarks & TRANSformations" a piece that puts the focus on individual LGBTQ lives in 2017 and creates -with the audience - new everyday queer rituals from the crazy concoction of tears, terror, laughter, and love that marks our era.

Against the backdrop of the 2015 landmark legislation of Marriage Equality, the recent 2016 election results posing a threat to that life-changing legislation, and an uncertain future for basic human rights in the year 2017, a company of writers, poets, activists, and artists will perform this piece about their own personal landmarks and transformations as queer Americans. After each performance there will be a community engagement component where audience are invited to share their own "landmarks" as LGBTQ people/allies.

Featured writers/performers include Kevin R Free (Artistic Director, The Fire This Time Festival), Charlie O'Leary (Crashbox Theatre), Bixby Elliot (Founder, Brooklyn Generator), Christopher G. Ulloth (Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), Daniel McCoy (NY Neo Futurist), David Caudle (Award-Winning Playwright) Philip Markle ("Baby Wants Candy," Creator of the long-running Chicago and NYC hit, "Happy Karaoke Fun Time"), Kathleen Warnock (Dublin Gay Theatre Festival), Thomas Muccioli (Project Y's award-winning production of "Connected" at 59E59 Theaters), Elena Chang (TCG's Director of Inclusion and Diversity), and more. There will be 18 total artists featured in this devised theatre piece and the lineup of performers will change nightly.

The production will be led and directed by Project Y's co-Founding Artistic Director, Michole Biancosino (Connected at 59E59 Theaters; co-creator and director of the hit show David Carl's Celebrity One-Man Hamlet).

The award-winning, Project Y Theatre Company, is an outside-the-box theatre company that supports the creation, development, and production of new works for the stage in New York City. Committed to supporting playwrights and their plays, and with a focus on women and LGBTQ voices, Project Y positions new plays and underserved voices to be part of the theatrical conversation.

Project Y has received the first Open Space grant from the Episcopal Actors Guild, where all performances will be take place. Visit www.projectytheatre.org for more information.

Shows are tonight, February 18, through February 25th 2017, 7:30pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays & 5:30pm on Sunday. To purchase tickets for "Landmarks & TRANSformations" and for more information, visit www.projectytheatre.org. Ticket prices range from $10-$25. Half of all proceeds go directly to support the Episcopal Actors' Guild, an organization whose mission is to serve actors and artists in crisis.