TRANS LINEAGE: RITES OF PASSAGE

World Premiere
December 4th to December 13th, 2025
Presented by Celebration Theatre in partnership with Greenway Arts Alliance

A griot’s inheritance. A nun’s unraveling. A twink’s reckoning.

Across cultures and histories, rites of passage mark life’s turning points: birth, death, coming of age, initiation, embodiment, exile, return. For trans people, these rites are often erased, denied, invented, and reimagined. This year’s exciting new works invite us to explore the moments and thresholds that shape us and our lineages, whether personal, cultural, spiritual, or historical.

From a Black transmasculine griot reclaiming ancestral memory, to a transfeminine nun confronting faith and isolation during the bubonic plague, to a gay Korean trans man facing aging and “twink death," this electric trilogy of one-acts spans centuries and continents to explore lineage, ritual, and transformation.

Written by Amari Amai, Dom Martello, Oscar K.

Produced by Petey Gibson

Starring Alex Song-Xia, Lee Baladejo, Olabisi Kovabel, Phi Kenzie, and Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors

Production Photography: Jill Petrachek