BROOKLYN: The Brick Theater will present T4T FEST: BY trans artists, FOR trans audiences, produced by Noah Pyzik, on June 3-8. According to organizers, it will feature a “powerhouse lineup of rollicking farce, romance, sci-fi, mystery, drag, and more. No trauma mining here.” 

Trans Black Filipinx theatre artist Roger Q. Mason’s The Pride of Lions is one of the headlining plays of the festival. é boylan will direct, and Gaven Trinidad is the dramaturg.  

“The events which inspired this play took place almost 100 years ago, yet the homophobic and transphobic attitudes it explores have not changed,” Mason said in a statement. “The Pride of Lions is a testament to the everlasting resilience that queer folks have had to muster to survive in America. But more importantly, it is a celebration of the love which surpasses hate—then, now, and forever.”

Tickets are $25-50, with a running time of 120 minutes for the performances slated for each day. The lineup includes these plays on the following dates: 

June 3 at 8 p.m.: POWPOWPOWKABOOM by Dom Martello and The Show Girl by R. Jahan

June 4 at 8 p.m.: Narcissus AS PLOT FORM: A TRANSSEXUAL RAGE(R) by Oscar K., Dr. Glo-Werm by Nay Harris

June 5 at 8 p.m.: The Pride of Lions by Roger Q. Mason, Further South by Carmi Burbridge

June 6 at 8 p.m.: THE JADE RABBIT IS CRASHING OUT OVER EL*N M*SK by Esmé Ng, chaos god of the orion sun by Aster Drewe, Club Chakra by Saphire Oshun, swearing in english. by Ema Zivkovic

June 7 at 3 p.m.: Good Girls Don’t Go to Hell by A.A. Brenner, His Majesty, Her Self by Alle Mims, The Archetypes by Oliver Indictor

June 7 at 8 p.m.: Somebody Told Me There’s a Monster in the Lake by D.A. Mindell, MIKEY & STEVE FACE THE MUNICIPAL COURT! by Noma Mirny

June 8 at 3 p.m.: Let Me Not Be Myself by Sloth Levine, The Ghost of Leslie-fucking-Feinberg by Kaila Tacazon

The Brick Theater is a nonprofit dedicated to developing and presenting the work of pioneering, emerging, and career experimental artists in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.