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.

Shiny Objects is the theme of the 66th TELL, on Saturday, October 17, 2020, 6 to 7:30 PM (EST). Featuring Caresse Fernandez, Dima Mikhayel Matta, Kate McDonough, and Zo Tipp.

The event will take place on Zoom.

This is a free event, but you must register on the Eventbrite page in advance of the event in order to receive the Zoom meeting link.

Donations for the performers and the Bureau are much appreciated!
Make a donation when you register on the Eventbrite page.

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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 the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com.

Caresse (kuh·reese) Fernandez is a storyteller currently residing on unceded Tongva territory in Long Beach, CA. She has had poetry and prose featured in publications such as MERCADO VICENTE and is currently working on telling stories through film and TV. Her experiences as a queer Filipina-American inform much of her writing around themes of identity in the diaspora and mental health.

When she isn’t writing, Caresse can be found telling stories through dance, desperately tending to the many house plants she had ambitiously accumulated in quarantine, or creating superfluous portmanteau puns (much to her partner’s dismay).

Dima Mikhayel Matta is a Beirut-based writer and actress. She received a Fulbright scholarship and completed her MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University in 2013. She has been acting for the stage since 2006. In 2014, she founded Cliffhangers, the first bilingual storytelling platform in Lebanon, and hosts monthly storytelling events along with parallel events such as storytelling workshops and performances. Cliffhangers is a non-profit initiative that aims to give a platform for marginalized voices and serves as a safe space for people to share their stories. Her first play, “This is not a memorized script, this is a well-rehearsed story,” an autobiographical play on queerness and her relationship with the city toured in London, New York, and Belfast, and premiered in Beirut in February 2020. She is currently working on her second play.

Kate McDonough is a performing artist, writer, storyteller and community organizer. Kate’s work explores generational cycles violence, healing and transformation through the documentation of family members personal stories. Kate is also currently working on sci fi series about cats.

Kate has been organizing in New York City and state for over a decade and they are currently the Director of Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY, a citywide multi stakeholder education justice coalition. Kate grew up in the Bronx and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Zo Tipp (they/them) is a jewish-japanese-american queer actor/singer. NY: INTAR: Bundle of Sticks, CSC/Oregon Shakes: Play On! festival, Rattlestick: Pride Plays. Upcoming screenings at NewFest 2020: Top and Bottom (Angela Cheng), Sideways Smile (Hang Nguyen), Dissonance (Kim Garcia). IG: @zotipp www.zotipp.com