Trans History Project with Baltimore Center Stage
About Face is thrilled to join the second cohort in the Trans History Project, a national initiative created by Baltimore Center Stage!
The Trans History Project is a revolutionary national initiative created by Bo Frazier, Baltimore Center Stage’s Artist-in-Residence. Led by Baltimore Center Stage and Breaking the Binary Theatre, this project aims to commission, develop, and publish 10 new plays about the real history of gender non-conformity which has existed across all cultures since the beginning of time. There will be 10 Trans and Gender Nonconforming playwrights (TGNC) commissioned by BCS who will subsequently be placed into 2-year development residencies at theaters across the country in 2 cohorts.
About Face will be partnering with Justice Jamal Jones to produce a reading of their play La Prophétesse, learn more about Justice and the play below.
Justice Jamal Jones (they/she) is a New York City-based filmmaker, theatermaker and actor whose award-winning films How to Raise a Black Boy and Notes on a Siren have earned international acclaim. They have directed commissioned work for MTV, Calvin Klein, Converse and ARRI. A 2021 Sundance Ignite Fellow, 2025 Explorers Club inductee and 2026 Sundance Trans Possibilities Fellow, Jones is an NYU Tisch and Gallatin graduate whose work explores identity, boyhood and the boundaries between lived experience and storytelling.
La Prophétesse
Based on the award-winning book The Priest and the Prophetess by Terry Rey, La Prophétesse is a blur of possession and performance, exhuming the life of the gender-queer Haitian revolutionary and mystic Romaine La Prophétesse. Here, the revolution is not televised but theatrically portrayed, where the archive becomes an afterlife and theatre becomes ritual.