Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile (Kat Kai Kol-Kes) is a groundbreaking Trans* ARTivist from Botswana working in communications, performing arts, education and human rights. Botswana’s only TED Fellow, she is the Artistic Director and Founder of the Queer Shorts Showcase Festival. Bahati Books (UK) published her poetry collection…on about the same old things in 2016 and it premiered at Writivism Festival in Kampala, Uganda. Her body of solo theatre works includes Shelf Life Zero (‘15), AfriQueer NOW! (’16), and My Tongue. My Noose (‘18). Kat’s accolades include being an OkayAfrica #100Women honouree, Queen’s Young Leader, Chevening Scholar, a Best of Botswana Performing Artist and a Mandela Washington Fellow. Kol-Kes holds an MA in Human Rights, Culture, and Social Justice from Goldsmiths University of London; and a BA Honours in Dramatic Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand.

M.J. Moneymaker is a Chinese-Puerto Rican American.   Artist, writer, veteran. Storytelling through any medium, shares experience, adds to life.

National Queer Theater is a New York nonprofit theater and community-building organization. Our mission is to foster and support LGBTQ communities through social justice in the performing arts.