Kit Connor in his dressing room.
Photo: Courtesy of Tommy Dorfman
“I think the conceit, sort of the world we’re living in, is that these kids broke into the theater and put on Romeo and Juliet,” Tommy Dorfman says of Sam Gold’s new Broadway production, in which she plays both the Nurse and Tybalt. “I remember being like, ‘You want me to come in for the Nurse? That feels weird. But you know what? I can also make sense of it.’ And I think as a trans woman, it’s really interesting to play a surrogate mother.”
With her eBay film cameras in tow, Dorfman has been documenting her journey at the Circle in the Square Theatre with her castmates Rachel Zegler, Kit Connor, and more.
“I wanted to be really present…