Secret Identity

The world can be unbearable when the school bully paints a target on your back. For 16-year-old JT, it means retreating to the safer and terrifically exciting world of spandex-clad super heroes he’s created. Things get complicated, though when his imaginary, square-jawed hero Paladin suddenly has competition in the form of the very real, but equally square-jawed, and dazzling new kid in school Trey. Lines between the real world and the imaginary world start to blur, and JT may become a casualty of his own storytelling. When adolescent fantasies come in heroic proportions it’s difficult to keep them under wraps.

Playwright Chris Weikel, whose previous work Fern Siegel described in the Huffington Post as “witty” and “clever” gives voice to the many ways bullying can wreak havoc in the lives of LGBTQ+ youth. It shines a light on the decisions many who feel marginalized must confront in a society where bullying has become the norm.

Performance Schedule

Wednesdays through Saturdays @ 7pm

CAST

JT……..Keith Weiss
Rej……..Nicky Maindiratta
Trey……..Kory Alexander Majansky
Guise……..Michael Flood**
Mal……..Zachary Gault
Crabbe……..CJ DiOrio
Goyle……..Keno Golaub
Mr. Bachman……..David Leeper
Mrs. Shuster……..Jamie Heinlein**
Paladin……..Michael Joseph Murray**

**Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association

*All tickets include an additional $2 Theater Restoration Fee, which keeps the lights on in our new digs. 

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TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) is New York City’s oldest professional LGBTQ+ theater. In 1974, Off-Off Broadway veteran Doric Wilson (1939-2011), cabaret star Billy Blackwell and director Peter dell Valle, started the first professional gay theatre company in NYC. It was called The Other Side of Silence; TOSOS for short. In 2002, directors Mark Finley and Barry Childs and playwright Wilson resurrected TOSOS. The company has produced over 30 mainstage shows and so many readings of new plays and works in progress we have trouble counting them all. www.tososnyc.org