June 21, 2025

Experiments Reading: A Thousand Stonewalls – September 29

September 29, 2025

7:30pm

Community Arts Space
‍74 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: Free / reservations required

Written by

Lee LeBreton

ABOUT

A Thousand Stonewalls attempts to stage the events of the first night of the Stonewall riots using historical accounts from eyewitnesses. Much like a riot, however, history gets messy. The many contradictory accounts of that night—from reporters, future LGBTQ trailblazers, and the NYPD—invite us to question who we’ve centered in our retelling of the Stonewall riots, who and what we’ve left out of Stonewall’s mythology, and our relationship to resistance in politically frightening times.

BIOS

Lee LeBreton is a queer, trans experimental theatre-maker and performance artist from the southern US, creating live art without a fourth wall. Lee’s artistic home is with the New York Neo-Futurists, where he writes and performs year-round in the Neos’ long-running variety show The Infinite Wrench and teaches writing to youth and adults. He is a 2025–2026 resident at the cell theatre.

Lee’s other presenters and collaborators include Virgin Voyages, the Kennedy Center, Skidmore College, ART/NY, ChaShaMa, Future of Storytelling Festival, the Performance Arcade in Wellington, New Zealand, and others. He has appeared with Trinity Rep, Arena Stage, Intiman, Edinburgh Fringe, and Night Vale Presents; in special projects for It Gets Better, Planned Parenthood, American Theatre Wing, and New York Public Library; and in independent films, nightlife revues, and audio dramas.

Lee speaks on queerness, performance, and play at events and schools around the US. MFA Brown/Trinity Rep, BS University of Evansville.

Director, James Rutherford is a third-generation New York artist, and the founder/director of M-34 Productions. They grew up a block from Stonewall and across the street from the Waverly Diner. Recent credits include DAD ROCK (Kyle Dacuyan @ The Shed), Letter to My Father (Franz Kafka live-streamed on Twitch) and Salomé (Oscar Wilde @ Irondale). James is currently developing Very Fine People, a verbatim theater multi-play cycle about the Charlottesville tiki torch Nazis. MFA: Columbia University. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

La MaMa Experiments Play Reading Series

La MaMa Program

Experiments Play Reading Series 2025–2026 is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature with additional support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, The John Golden Fund, and The Shubert Foundation.