Championing the development and production of new translations and adaptations of ancient and classical texts, with a focus on storytelling through a queer/BIPOC lens.
up next: Liability, by oscar K.
Synopsis: Set in Seoul during the 2050 Olympic Games, LIABILITY is a futuristic t4t fantasia that follows two Korean trans women on rival fencing teams competing to be the first trans Asian Olympian to bring home gold. It also follows two closeted Korean trans women competing to join the Hwarang, an elite warrior class in the ancient kingdom of Silla.
DANNY KIM is playing for the United States. MEDUSA CHO is playing for South Korea. It’s Danny’s first time in the motherland™. Medusa has lived in Seoul her whole life. Danny is stealth. Medusa is proudly out. History presses into the past, timelines overtake each other, and when Danny and Medusa finally clash, it’s not just swords that collide…
A satire of the culture wars between East & West, LIABILITY is an indictment of hyper-nationalism, an exploration of alliances formed under scrutiny, and a deeply serious commentary on trans rights in sports.
staged reading Coming august 2026
Liability is presented as part of Theatre Bacchant’s New Play Development Series
previously
in defense of medea
a staged reading of
a new play by lane st. sebastian
Friday, November 14th @ 7pm
The Vino Theater
274 Morgan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Inspired by Euripides’s Medea, In Defense of Medea presents a temporally and spatially disjointed two-act tragedy that interrogates the intersections of gender, race, and class.
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