Programs at the Theater Offensive
TRUE COLORS: OUT YOUTH THEATER
True Colors: Out Youth Theater is The Theater Offensive’s longest running seasonal program. It uses a proven community-based theater approach to train and activate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied youth leaders ages 13-25. True Colors youth leaders work with The Theater Offensive to develop comprehensive youth programming that engages participants deeply in our mission.
QUEER [RE]PUBLIC/EMERGENT ARTIST RESIDENCY
Queer (Re)public is a new program that honors, uplifts, and builds on emergent themes inherent to and in QTPOC art through workshops, residency programs, and commissioning art by, for, and including queer and trans artists of color.
In partnership with The Coolidge Corner Theatre, TTO seeks to display queer media, focusing primarily on explicit representation of Queer & Trans characters and communities in cinema, theatrical production recordings, and media performance. The themes of these films will revolve around The Theater Offensive's Queer Liberatory Aesthetics, which are at the core of our life-affirming values for queer and trans people of color. Through this series, we will analyze the contested relationships between spectator and text, identity and commodity, realism and fantasy, activism and entertainment, desire and politics.
