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KJ is an 18 year-old transman coming to terms with their adulthood, mother’s death, and father’s job (Mario works at the county jail). KJ is in love with Ruby, a young transwoman wrestling with addiction. Ruby is in jail; so are Imogen and Deja, two transwomen with painfully different life circumstances. Imogen writes her trauma out. Deja likes to make up songs. When Mario’s brutalization of transwomen hits home, what follows is a story about transgender people crafting moments of intimate joy despite structural oppression, incarceration, and threats against our collective emancipatory imagination. 

The Del Shores Foundation’s mission is to find, develop and elevate new LGBTQ+ playwrights and screenwriters through its annual Writers Search giving $30,000 in awards and grants and its annual Writers Festival bringing together theatre, film and television professionals with the writers for free readings, panels and workshops.  For more information visit www.delshoresfoundation.org