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Director || Intimacy Choreographer || Dyke with fag sensibilities 🦚
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(Inhale) The Jay and Anna Look Back 🙋🏻 by @jay.monteleone

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9 days ago

🧡🩷🤍 LUPERCALIA CAST ANNOUNCEMENT🤍🩷🧡

JOIN THIS HOT AND SEXY CAST FOR AN EXTRA SPECIAL READING OF LUPERCALIA, OR THE QUEER AFTERMATH OF TWELFTH NIGHT IN @frigidnewyork’s SHAKES PUNK FESTIVAL!

ONLY ON AUGUST 21ST AT 7PM, UNDER ST. MARKS THEATER. SLIDING SCALE TICKETS AT THE LINK IN BIO.

JOIN US!! IF YOU MISS THIS SHOW, THEN HOW WILL YOU EVER UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TITLE MEANS??? by @jay.monteleone

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2 months ago

it’s a complex number, full of mythic themes… by @jay.monteleone

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3 months ago

🧡🩷🤍 NEW PLAY ANNOUNCEMENT 🤍🩷🧡

JOIN US ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 21ST AT 7PM FOR LUPERCALIA, OR THE QUEER AFTERMATH OF TWELFTH NIGHT.

A ONE-NIGHT-ONLY ENGAGEMENT PART OF @frigidnewyork’s SHAKES PUNK FESTIVAL!!

Following the events of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Olivia and Viola find themselves unhappy in their marriage arrangements, despite what you have been made to think. In this queer and trans only piece, follow Liv and Vi as they navigate what their relationship means now that they are both married to twinks. Alliances will be broken, villains will be made, and everyone will be gay.

LINK IN BIO TO SLIDING SCALE TICKETS STARTING AT $10. MORE EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON!!! KEEP A LOOK OUT 👀👀👀

Directed by @jay.monteleone
Written by @mousekevich taken in UNDER St. Mark's Theatre by @jay.monteleone

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3 months ago

A Midsummer Night’s Dream || Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre Company 🌙

I’m super late on this, but it was the most special time getting to play my favorite part in my favorite play with such talented, hilarious actors. Thank you to @__kendall__marie__ for directing this show so beautifully and for letting me be my weirdest possible self, lol.

Nick Bottom is a trans icon and don’t you forget it!

@si_shakespeare
Director: Kendall Carnahan (@__kendall__marie__)
Stage Manager: McKenna McQueen (@mckenna.mcqueen)
Dramaturg: Kt Kerrigan (@kt.kerrigan)
Assistant Director: Ariel Marcus-Hollenbeck (@ari_elley)
Assistant Stage Manager: Ella Williams
Costume Designers: Brittney Lazarus (@_brittneyspears) and Phoebe Frasier (@rodent.kind)
Lighting Designer: Rainer Ortiz (@raimarkabledesigns)

📸 by @sarajdesign taken in Connie Gretz Secret Garden by @jay.monteleone

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3 months ago

⚡️The 24 Hour Plays Nationals ⚡️

So grateful to @24hourplays for creating such a rare space of learning, creating, and remembering all the best parts of theatre. Getting to awaken the musical theatre director that’s been living inside of me all along was a #dream come true… #stay tuned for my upcoming production of The Music Man starring @arianagrande as Harold Hill and @jbayleaf as Marion Paroo.

But for real, thank you to every member of this incredibly talented company, and especially to Michael Ronca and Sam Melton for writing the best gay trivia musical I could ever ask for.

✏️ Trivial ✏️

Director: me :)
Book: Michael Ronca (@roncasaurus)
Music and Lyrics: Sam Melton (@sam.melton.sam)
Music Direction: Goldie Golden (@goldiegolden65)
Stage Manager: Tess Feldman (@tessiefeld)
Producers: Katie Brown (@ktbrownnnn) and Isabelle Chirls (@isabelle_chirls)
Costume Design: Quinn McCardle (@quinnmccdoodle)
Prop Design: Seo Won Yun (@seo_yun_design)
Lighting Design: Ivy Walker (@changingmymaj0r)
Scenic Design: Ian Rios-Vasquez (@riosvasquez_designs)
Sound Design: Ari Cleveland (@ari.chillicothe)

Featuring:
Sophia Feldman
Shaakirah Nazim-Harris (@tisyasmina)
Jordan Hurley (@jordanbhurley)
Connor Riordan (@connor92100)

Swipe to see some other shots from the week, including Penelope Gould’s brilliant mini play: Tiny Doggie Birthday 🐾🎉

🎈Tiny Doggie Birthday🎈

Director: me :)
Playwright: Penelope Gould (@penelope.gould)
Stage Manager: Rey Hankinson (@hey.rey.hanks)
Props & Costumes: Quinn McCardle

Featuring:
Sam Besca (@bamsesca)
Serena Phillips (@seriiphillip)
Lee Baladejo (@leebaladejo)
Jeff Parkinson (@jeffcparkinson)

Finally, a special shoutout to my fellow directors, @mcartercram, @wasif.sami, and @matthewbcullen, for being the best people to learn from and alongside all week! 💖

📸 by @abstrac.t by @jay.monteleone

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3 months ago

Logan Rozos stars in Oscar K’s THIS RECURRING DAYDREAM WHERE I’M IN LOVE WITH LOU SULLIVAN, directed by Julie Monteleone.

A 21st century transsexual takes us on a journey through iconic activist & gay heartthrob Lou Sullivan’s diaries, peppered with memes, queer discourse, and yearning. Or, a love letter to a book with a picture of an ass on the cover.

Join us to experience THIS RECURRING DAYDREAM WHERE I’M IN LOVE WITH LOU SULLIVAN and other stories on November 20th at @herearts in New York City. Admission is free, but donations are strongly encouraged to support the artists involved.

For more information, visit the link in the bio. taken in HERE Arts Center by @jay.monteleone

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a year ago

Death Comes in Threes || Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival 2025 💜

I am so honored to have been apart of this incredible team and show as the Associate Director. This was a room that reminded me of doing theatre as a kid—that feeling of instant care and closeness, and the knowing that what we’re making has some big big power that lives beyond us.

Thank you to everyone involved for such a magical and healing time workshopping this play. Let’s do it again real soon! And thank you to @breakingthebinarytheatre for building rooms of badass TGNC artists who are consistently the most talented theatre makers out there.

Produced by @breakingthebinarytheatre, @georgestrus, @esmemariang, and @alishaasimmons
Written by AriDy Nox
Directed by @thecooperhowell
Stage Managed by @soupcompany
Starring @taylorimanjones, @samoraperdida, @temidayoma
Photos by @josephomalleyarts by @jay.monteleone

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a year ago

❤️💜❤️POSTER REVEAL!!!❤️💜❤️

Whose sexy underwear are those? What’s that I see beyond the trees?? And if YOU were going to name a mysterious creature you found out in the woods, doesn’t “Victoria Flee” have a nice ring to it??

JOIN US
Oct. 26, 29, 31, and Nov. 2
All shows at 7pm @thetanknyc

Get your tickets while they last at the link in bio! 👣

Poster Design by @hillaryclarkk
Coordinated by @claywildmunley by @jay.monteleone

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a year ago

I know I have a cheery personality, but I wanted to share that I’m actually filled with rage all the time and @mousekevich is the only one who knows! Shoutout to @mousekevich! Everyone else, get ready for non-stop rage!

Also pictured here are some moments of non-rage-ful joy, and a weird attempt at oil pastels, and my tiger shirt x3, and the moment right after Sammy Rae asked to take a picture of my hair…. 😤 by @jay.monteleone

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a year ago

How to Defend Yourself || Northwestern University, 2023

I cannot express how proud I am of this show. Nothing has felt more healing for me than sharing this story of rage, grief, and power with a company dedicated to creating with bravery and love.

To all those who have experienced sexual assault, to my younger self, you are more powerful than you think. by @jay.monteleone

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3 years ago