An original Musical by TRANScend

Coming this November: The Passion of Miss De Marco

NOVEMBER 21 - 23 @ The Flea

This November, TRANScend introduces our first musical production brought to you by a cast & creative team centering transgender & gender expansive talent!

The Passion of Miss de Marco, Unemployed Stenographer is an interdisciplinary theater work, incorporating elements from opera, musical theater, oratorio, and dance to tell the story of a young, queer woman in 1930s New York and her fleeting brush with fame - before her untimely death.

The narrative is based on the actual news coverage of Miss Norma de Marco’s role assisting the police in thwarting an armed robbery of a queer club in the East Village. With a modern take on the Greek chorus, reading actual headlines and news articles about the events as they unfolded, the story intersperses scenes from the last three months of Norma’s life with narration from a passionate academic seeking to redeem her from the tabloid sensationalism following her plunge from an apartment window.

Structured as a queer lives-of-the-saints style play, Miss de Marco is ultimately a reflection on how well we can ever truly know a historical figure from outside sources, and questions what we actually know about queer icons from the past and their lives.

We hope you’ll join us for this first foray into musical production as we build platform for transgender & gender expansive theater that will last for years to come.