Local playwright, choreographer, performer, writer and trans activist Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi says U.S. society is in the throes of major change. “What we’re facing now is a systematic reckoning,” says Edidi, 37. “We’re being invited to invest in a world free of oppression or invest in what used to be normal which was steeped in white supremacy and not good for most people.
We’re being asked to align ourselves with the values we claim to avow. Exactly when the American theater reopens is part of a bigger question.
It asks when will we care enough to take to the necessary precautions to be able to make sure most of us survive this thing.” Best known for both writing and performing in “For Trans Black Girls …” and “Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam