Alumna Kea Trevett '16 Selected for Outfest Screenwriting Lab

By
Robbie Armstrong
February 01, 2021

Outfest launched its annual Outfest Screenwriting Lab and selected The Wedding Date, a play by alumna Kea Trevett ’16 and Cody Stickels. The Wedding Date was selected among eight plays that aim to advance visibility of LGBTQIA+ storytelling. Joining Trevett and Stickels, this year’s fellows include Johnny Alvarez, Courtney & Hillary Andujar, Carlton Daniel Jr., Gary Jaffe, Raul Martin, Damon Royster, and Leandro Tadashi.

The Outfest Screenwriting Lab was established as a screenwriting contest in 1997 and has since become the cornerstone of Outfest’s education and mentoring program, Outfest Forward. Because this year’s Lab will take place virtually, it provided Outfest the ability to accept their largest cohort to date and extended the time frame of the Lab to five days. Fellows will meet with top industry showrunners, executives, and writers who will offer professional development and discuss trends within the industry.

The Wedding Date is billed as a trans romance you can watch with your mom. When transguy Caleb, six months post top surgery, brings his femme best friend Roxy home as a fake date to a southern family wedding, they enjoy a warm welcome, perceived and embraced as a heterosexual couple—and it scares them. With family pressure high, it’s easier to blend in than to stand out, but lying about who they are quickly becomes too much, forcing Caleb and Roxy to question themselves and their changing feelings for each other. The Wedding Date is an honest, vulnerable exploration of how we navigate relationships with relatives who are trying their best to understand our identities.

Kea Trevett is a Brooklyn based actor, writer, teaching artist, intersectional feminist and proud plant mom. Trevett’s acting credits include Roundabout, Classic Stage Company, The Sheen Center, The Barrow Group, The Lark, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theater, Cherry Lane, Page 73, and Lincoln Center. Other favorites include Joy, written and directed by Katie Cappiello, and Antigone in the World directed by Greg Mosher. Trevett has worked on-camera in film, commercials, and TV; credits include Fosse/VerdonMordeo Season One, and over a dozen independent films which have screened at festivals across the country and abroad, including Frameline, Newfest, Outfest, Atlanta Film Festival, LA Shorts, Chicago Reeling, Clexacon, Hollyshorts, and Iris Prize. Trevett is a co-founder of Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble, an initiative to keep theatre education in underfunded NYC public schools. She teaches Theater in Performance and Playwriting at TFANA, and is a Story Pirate.