TELL is a monthly queer storytelling show hosted and curated by Drae Campbell. It is the longest running event at the Bureau! 10 years and going. Each month there is a different theme and a different line up of queer artists who tell true stories from their lives on a theme.
The theme for December is Fighting, featuring storytellers Anthony Caronna, KAROLINE, and Fernando Vieira.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
Suggested donation to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD
Drae Campbell is the host and curator of TELL, an award winning podcast that can be found anywhere you listen to podcasts.
Theater: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theater & National Tour, Lortel Nominated), Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Teatro Circulo), My Old Man (Dixon Place), Storm Still (DirectorFest, Drama League), La Cage Aux Folles (Barrington Stage Company).
Film and TV: Senior Escort Service, Blunderpuss, It’s Very Common, TOW.
TV: Bull, New Amsterdam.
BFA, The University Of The Arts
Ig @draebiz and @tellqueerz
Anthony Caronna is a film director and creator known for HBO‘s “Last Call: When a serial killer stalked queer New York.” Caronna goes by they/them pronouns.
KAROLINE is a queer Chinese American actor and writer who goes by a mononym. They can currently be seen in the new Hulu series DEATH AND OTHER DETAILS and in A24’s A DIFFERENT MAN. Their theater credits include THE HARD PROBLEM at Lincoln Center, EXCLUSION at Arena Stage, and the world premiere of [VEIL WIDOW CONSPIRACY], for which The New York Times called them “terrific.” Their short film PIPPI, which they wrote and starred in, traveled the festival circuit to acclaim and is currently on a two year distribution deal. Karoline was born in Shanghai, grew up in Sweden, and raised in South Texas. They went to a pre-med high school, then Harvard, both of which are terrible party facts.
Fernando Vieira is a New York-based writer, director, and performer. As a multidisciplinary artist, Vieira balances their career as creator of stage and film works. Playwriting work includes the plays Goodbye, Little George (2020) and Anormales (2021). Vieira’s work has been presented at various theatrical companies and institutions such as BAAD!, Repertorio Español, IATI Theater, The Brick Theatre, Teatro Audaz, Chelsea Theater, Prelude Festival, The Tank, among others. Film work includes the documentary Unlabeled (2021) and the experimental short films Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness (2023) and Las Olas (2024). Vieira earned a Master of Arts degree in Film Studies from CUNY Graduate Center.