Originally from Argentina, Cecilia Gentili is a well-known storyteller in NYC. She has also acted in several plays (Jess Barbagallo’s “My Old Man” (Dixon Place), Casey Llewellyn’s “O Earth” (HERE Arts Center)) and was a guest star in “Pose” (FX) where she payed Ms. Orlando. Gentili found her passion for advocacy working as an intern at the LGBT Center. She headed the Transgender Health Program at Apicha from 2012 to 2016, served as the Director of Policy at GMHC from 2016 to 2019, and currently functions as Principal to Trans Equity Consulting defining policy to the benefit of the TGNC/NB community. She was a contributor to “Trans Bodies Trans Selves” and is a board member at Translatina Network. She is passionate about advocating for her community, specifically for trans women with a Latino background, sex work, drug use and incarceration history.

Charlene Incarnate has been performing drag in Brooklyn for 6 years. She enacted her gender transition as a performance art piece on New York drag stages (including La MaMa’s Squirts 2014), and now her performance work centers around the aggressive, dangerous and inherently political nature of living in a transgender body. In the summer of 2017 she was crowned Miss Bushwig and went on to perform at Lady Bunny's Wigstock in 2018, igniting the headline from Time Out New York "Charlene is taking over the planet"

From the Lower East Side of Manhattan and The Bronx, Mizz June, the musical persona of NYC based Actor Julienne Brown- got her start in Musical Theater and Activism.  A protégée of luminary public figures Octavia St. Laurent and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, she was the first out Black Transwoman to be a guest cast member on a daytime soap opera (“All My Children”). She has appeared in music videos and, performed on various well known stages in NYC and around the U.S. (including La MaMa and BAM to name a few). Her latest single(s) can be found here: www.theonetheonlymizzjune.com/music

The Helix Queer Performance Network is a collaboration between La MaMa Experimental Theatre, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics, seeking to nurture queer performers, empower queer communities, and celebrate the legacy and lineage of queer performance in NYC. Directed by playwright Dan Fishback, major programs include La MaMa’s Squirts, the workshop Needing It: Solo Performance in Queer Community, and BAX’s festival of queer and trans artists of color, Submerge.

The 7^th La MaMa SQUIRTS 2019 has been made possible with support from Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and The Shubert Foundation.  Public support by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, with special thanks to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, City Councilmember Daniel Dromm and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.