TL Thompson
Actor, Musician, Storyteller
TL Thompson
Queer Talent
Welcome to my first and only official website. I appreciate your interest and involvement in my professional endeavors, and invite you to explore my site for more.
News and Updates
Article In VOX magazine
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/2/19/21124189/nonbinary-gender-fluid-adults
TL as Agent Taylor in
The Vineyard Theater Production of:
"Is This A Room?"
A true story, still unfolding. June 3, 2017. A 25-year-old former Air Force linguist named Reality Winner is surprised at her home by the FBI, interrogated, and then charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in U.S elections. Reality remains in jail with a record-breaking sentence. The FBI transcript of her interrogation is the heart of IS THIS A ROOM, conceived as a play and directed by Obie Award-winner Tina Satter, in which an extraordinary human drama unfolds between the complex and witty Reality (Emily Davis), and the agents who question her. As Reality’s autonomy shrinks before her eyes, a simmering real-life thriller emerges, asking what it is to have honor in this American moment, and how the personal can reverberate globally.
Review link here:
Waafrica 123
Part of the Criminal Queerness Festival.
Waafrica 123 was written by Kenyan playwright Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko.
I played the lead role of Aweeno. A young trans man living in 1990’s Kenya, deals with family, tradition, love and Aweeno’s place in the world.
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TL is a New York Neo-Futurist
The New York Neo- Futurists attempt to perform 30 plays in an hour every Friday and Saturday night at 10:30pm at the Kraine Theater. All of the plays are written by the ensemble based on their own personal experiences. The ensemble are always themselves, they never play characters. They infuse movement, music, poetry, and game to create the Neo-futuristic aesthetic.
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"