Celeste Lecesne's Poof! (Or What the Fairies Know) Will Be Presented at Dixon Place

Celeste Lecesne (formerly James Lecesne), whose solo show The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey played Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre, will workshop their newest one-person outing, POOF! (Or What the Fairies Know), October 27–29 at 7:30 PM at Dixon Place.

In Lecesne's new show, the fairies are not pleased—with so much of the natural world under threat from climate change—and they are beginning to show up in surprising ways to pass along information, songs, and a few spells that will be needed in the days to come.

Kevin Hourigan directs with costume design by Michael Krass.

POOF! was initially commissioned by the Ancram Opera House and had its first presentation as part of its outdoor festival in August 2021. Lecesne then returned for a writer’s workshop in 2022.

Lecesne, who wrote the Oscar-winning short film Trevor (that later inspired the Off-Broadway musical of the same name), has appeared on Broadway in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man and Off-Broadway in Cloud Nine and The Boys in the Band. They were the executive producer of After the Storm, a documentary that follows the lives of 12 young people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Lecesne also co-founded The Trevor Project, the largest 24-hour suicide prevention and crisis intervention lifeline for LGBT and questioning youth.

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