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Victoria Tucci

Victoria Tucci is an actor, activist and producer based in New York City. She is the founder and director of Theatre as Advocacy as well as the artistic producer at {Your Name Here}: A Queer Theatre.  She is currently producing a new queer adaptation of Romeo and Juliet titled JULIET & ROMEO. In 2012 she produced and played Romeo in Romeo & Juliet Forbidden Love Comes to North Carolina, which served as an education and advocacy campaign against North Carolina’s Anit-Gay legislation, Amendment One. Other New York Credits include The House of Bernada Alba, Circle in the Square Theatre SchoolI Am A Moon, Columbia University; Dora & Jane, Fresh Fruit FestivalThree Sisters Experiment, Wow Theater CaféWith the Assistance of Queen Anne, Strawberry Festival.  More information on Theatre as Advocacy and Juliet & Romeo can be found at www.yournamehereqtc.org.

Poster for Juliet and Romeo.
"Go forth and have more talk of these sad things"
Essay

"Go forth and have more talk of these sad things"

Reflections on creating political theater

16 June 2013

Victoria Tucci reflects on her time producing queered adaption of Romeo & Juliet, Juliet & Romeo, in the wake of the Marc Carson murder.