TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014.

Food is the theme of the twenty-sixth installment of TELL. Featuring Jax Jackson, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Lissy Navantu, and Randi Reinhold.

$10 suggested donation – no one turned away for lack of funds

Drae Campbell is a writer, actor, director, story teller, dancer, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland, NYC, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at BGSQD. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com.

Jax Jackson is an agender transsexual actor and healing artist in NYC. Jax has very little experience storytelling and has no idea what to put in a bio for this event, because usually bios for actors are long boring lists of credits with no context or interesting points of fact along the way. So Jax is just kinda rambling. If you need an actor, a yoga teacher, a reiki practitioner, a tarot reader, an astrologer, or a crystal consultant, you could check out Jax’s work at jaxjackson.com or embodiedhealing.nyc. Or like, just talk to Jax or something.

Mikéah Ernest Jennings is a performer and acting educator from the Mojave Desert living and working in New York City. Mikéah has been acting and creating contemporary performance for over 15yrs and is also an adjunct faculty member in the theater departments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The New School for Social Research. He is also a drinker of gin…very cheap gin.

Lissy Navantu is a Thai, femme activist. She is a social worker by day, failed romantic at night. Through collaboration with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, this past spring she toured the city with 10 LGBTQ youth, exposing the realities of homelessness in NYC (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIroT2qZ3Wo). As a true to heart masochist, Lissy finds joy in sharing her awkward social interactions with a keen audience. Lissy holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from NYU and has two self-published zines: “How to Double Your Number in Six Months” and “Mai Thai: Reflections on Consuming Thailand”.

Randi Reinhold is a Queer, Trans* masculine-of-center identified person who loves to make people laugh and feel good.  His day job as a kindergarten teacher supplies him with a huge amount of storytelling fodder.  As a volunteer for the Trevor Project, Randi also spends time supporting LGBTQI teens in crisis across the country.  He’s dabbled in open-mic stand up and enjoys learning 80s cover songs on his acoustic guitar.  His hobbies include running, bird watching, singing karaoke, geometric drawing, drinking red wine, coffee, and red wine.