Episode 28: Celeste Lecesne, Thursday, October 14th, 2021
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Celeste Lecesne, writer, actor, LBTQ+ Angelic Alchemist
Celeste Lecesne wrote the short film Trevor which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short and he is co-founder of The Trevor Project, the only nationwide 24-hour suicide prevention and crisis intervention Lifeline for LGBT and Questioning youth. He is also the co-founder of The Future Perfect Project, a national arts initiative that offers LGBTQ+ youth the opportunity to express their vision of the future. He has written three novels for young adults, and created The Letter Q, a collection of letters by queer writers written to their younger selves. Celeste was the executive producer of After The Storm, a feature length documentary film that follows the lives of 12 young people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he has written for TV (Will & Grace, Vicious) and was nominated for an Emmy for Armistead Maupin’s Further Tales of the City). An actor as well as a writer, James has appeared in Sex & the City, on and Off Broadway (Boys in the Band, Cloud 9, The Best Man), but he is best known for his award-winning solo shows, Word of Mouth (Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Awards) and The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (Outer Critic Circle). The NYTimes has ranked him “among the most talented solo performers of his (or any) generation.”
www.celestelecesne.com
www.thefutureperfectproject.com
www.thetrevorproject.org