OVERHEARD

L Morgan Lee (she/her)

L Morgan Lee is an Obie Award-winning storyteller who made history as the first openly transgender actor to receive a Tony Award® nomination for her breakout performance in A Strange Loop. She also received Drama League Distinguished Performance and Antonyo Award nominations. Other notable work includes playing the titular role in a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl being developed in London. Recordings: Joe Iconis' album (Ghostlight Records); The Rainbow Lullaby Album (Broadway Records); Sugar Maple Series (Osiris Media). Dedicated to championing stories centering women and underrepresented voices on both stage and screen, L Morgan has been developing a slew of new work including a piece formally titled, The Women (2021). She is a Mark O'Donnell Prize recipient. For more: lmorganlee.com

**George Strus** (they/he)

**Dramaturg**
George Strus (they/he) is a genderqueer Latinx theatremaker living on the unceded ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape Nation in New York. They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival: a developmental hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ theatermakers. They previously held positions at Second Stage Theater, A3 Artists Agency, Manhattan Theatre Club, Pride Plays at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Playbill, Stacey Mindich Productions, Alchemation, Telsey + Company Casting, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. @GeorgeStrus

Mika Kauffman (they/them/zi/zir)

Mika Kauffman (they/them, ze/zir) is a multi-hyphenate queer artist, primarily a director and choreographer, musical writer, dramaturg and producer. Hailing from Baltimore, ze received their BFA from Towson University and MFA in musical writing from Tisch. Mike creates collaborative trauma-informed spaces with a focus on community building to cultivate new work Off-Broadway and beyond. Ze is a member of SDC and the Dramatist Guild, and ze co-founded the Trans Entertainment Guild, an organization bettering the working conditions and lives of trans and gender expansive people in entertainment (transentertainmentguild.org). Check out their work at mikakauffman.com, IG: @mikakauffman.

Basit (they/them)

Basit (they/them) is a non-binary Black, Nigerian-American performance artist, singer/songwriter and actor. They are also a co-founder of Legacy, a production company focused on providing resources to artists systematically excluded from—and exploited by—media and the arts. Their creative practices are rooted in cultivating radical empathy, embracing vulnerability and unique expression, and finding power and strength in existence. Basit earned their BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Oklahoma, and some of their professional theatrical credits include, Sam in PILLOWTALK Off-Broadway, and Tribe in the European Tour of Hair! The Musical.

Bianca Leigh

Bianca Leigh. Miss Leigh’s acting roles include Waxy Bush in MTC’s THE NAP on Broadway (Understudy/performed), Mary Ellen in the groundbreaking film TRANSAMERICA, Time/Wind in Taylor Mac’s theatre epic THE LILY’S REVENGE, Franny Halcyon in the New York and San Francisco workshops of TALES OF THE CITY THE MUSICAL (performed in concert at the Music Box Theatre), Tatiana in Paul Lucas’ award- winning verbatim piece TRANS SCRIPTS at American Repertory Theatre, Beatrice in Christina Anderson’s MAN IN LOVE at Kansas City Rep, and Dr. Rachel Sandow on LAW & ORDER: SVU. Her play, MBJrT, was part of the Monday Night Playwright Series at Kansas City Rep in 2018. She is featured in Laverne Cox’s documentary DISCLOSURE, an exploration of Trans representation in motion pictures and on television, and can be heard on the Audible recording CHONBURI INTERNATIONAL HOTEL AND BUTTERFLY CLUB.

Evie schuckman (they/them)

Evie Schuckman (they/them) is a multi-hyphenate hailing from South Florida and Chengdu, China. They hold a BFA in Musical Theatre from Boston Conservatory with an emphasis in devising and solo performance. In 2022 Evie played Emory/Mrs. Hsu in Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower (National Tour), and they will be returning to the production next year. Other credits include Before the Flood (Neta), Indigo: The Musical (Indigo), and, at several points in time, every female child in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Evie is currently in residency at The Mercury Store. They live in Brooklyn with their roommate, Eliza, and poodle mix, Sunday. They are a double Leo with a Sag rising, and they are currently knitting a purple sweater. You can find them online @evieschu, and at www.evieschu.com.

yannick-robin eike (they/he)

yannick-robin eike (they/he). They dedicate their time on stage in this role to all of the BIPOC, Disabled, + TGNC performers that paved the way for him, and to JRG.