You don’t have to look further than this year’s Tony Awards to see why we need festivals like The Syndicate’s First Read 2019, which featured staged readings of new plays by trans playwrights last weekend.
“If storytellers don’t change the thinking, we’ll never feel integral to the world we live in,” says festival producer Hal Cosentino, a trans man whose work the desert play (Or Nothing Feels Like) got a reading in The Syndicate’s inaugural First Read in 2018, held in New York City.
