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WHO WE ARE

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WHO WE ARE

National Queer Theater is an Obie-award winning innovative theater collective dedicated to celebrating the brilliance of generations of LGBTQ+ artists and providing a home for unheard storytellers and activists. By serving our elders, youth, and working professionals, NQT creates a more just future through radical and evocative theater experiences and free community classes.

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CRIMINAL QUEERNESS FESTIVAL

This pride, witness new plays from LGBTQ+ writers fighting criminalization through their art.

Tickets to the 7th annual Criminal Queerness Festival are on sale now!

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

 We partner with community-based nonprofit organizations serving marginalized LGBTQ+ communities.

Our programs serve and empower people living with HIV and LGBTQ+ youth, elders, activists, and educators through the transformative power of theater.

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NEW
PLAYS

We invest supporting in early-career LGBTQ playwrights through readings, workshops, and more.

We are passionate about promoting the creation of new plays by writers of marginalized backgrounds to diversify the existing American theatrical landscape.

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SUPPORT US

National Queer Theater works tirelessly to support queer communities through social justice-based performing arts programming, but we cannot operate without the contributions of people like you.

Make a tax-deductable donation to National Queer Theater today!

PRAISE FOR NQT

 Fatima Maan 

Playwright, Criminal Queerness Festival

“It is rare to find such a supportive community of queer individuals who share the same passion to bring queer stories to the forefront. I was overjoyed, humbled and so fortunate to be a part of a festival as ambitious and honest at the Criminal Queerness Festival. I have no doubts that it will continue to thrive on the collective passion of the queer theater community of NYC and beyond” 

M.D. Schaffer 

Student, Criminal Queerness Studio

“Now that our stories are being threatened with being erased, NQT is one of the greatest leaders who reminds us that our narratives and existences matter.” 

BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL

A short documentary about the Criminal Queerness Festival from DGNL Media

 LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

National Queer Theater acknowledges that our programs are on the ancestral land of the Lenape and Canarsie people. We pay respect to their ancestors and descendants, and especially celebrate our queer and Two Spirit indigenous communities.

 EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION 

At National Queer Theater, our vision is that we can help cultivate a more just, joyous, and empowered queer community that is celebrated in all corners of society. We are enthusiastic to share our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commitments with you, and welcome any feedback.

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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

We welcome any feedback, either through email at support@nationalqueertheater.org or through the anonymous form below.

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