TOSOS II Home Page

In 1974, Off-Off Broadway veteran Doric Wilson, cabaret star Billy Blackwell and director Peter dell Valle, started the first

professional gay theatre company in NYC. It was called The Other Side of Silence; TOSOS for short.

In 2002, directors Mark Finley and Barry Childs and playwright Wilson resurrected the company as TOSOS II, dedicating it to an

honest and open exploration of the life experience and cultural sensibility of the GLBT community and to

preserving and promoting our literary past in a determined effort to keep our theatrical heritage alive.

In 2004, TOSOS was honored by inclusion in the new permanent theater exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.

In 2007, founder Doric Wilson received the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Artistic Achievement.

In 2009, Mark Finley decided to take the company back to its origins, rebranding it TOSOS - The Other Side of Silence.

(The Museum of the City of New York features the Spike 1977 TOSOS production of Doric Wilson’s The West Street Gang)

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Ongoing Series
Playwrights Project	Musical Theater Project	Solo Show Project

Productions
	*The Secretaries*
*Pig Tale*	*And Sophie Comes Too*	*Street Theater 2010*
*The Madness of Lady Bright*	*WeikelWorks*	*And He Made a Her*
Mark Finley's The Mermaid	Charles Busch's The Lady in Question	*New York Minutes*
*Movie Lover: A Triple Feature*	*Eisenstein's Monster*	Elizabeth Whitney's Wonder Woman: The Musical
David Bell's Bernadette & the Butcher of Broadway	Mark Finley's Young Stowaways in Space	Robert Patrick's Hollywood at Sunset
David Bell's WHAT the FK?!?**	Doric Wilson's A Perfect Relationship	Chris Weikel's Penny Penniworth
*LOOK AGAIN!*	Doric Wilson's *Street Theater*	Chris Weikel's Tales Told

— One of the most exciting events. . .is the re-emergence of TOSOS, originally founded in 1974 by Stonewall veteran Doric Wilson. —Bacalzo, TheaterMania.com

— Talk about a prodigy. The infant TOSOS II ran before it could crawl. — Marcus, Gay City News

— Off-Off Broadway at its finest. — Hurst, NEXT magazine

— TOSOS II is proving to be the little theater group that can. . .In gay theater circles, the year's biggest news was the return of The Other Side of Silence, the nation's first professional gay troupe. . .Its reading series, Look Again!, almost instantly established the troupe as the leading light of New York gay theater. . .I can hardly wait to see what this gay theater brain trust has in store. —Warman, HX magazine

— One of the pleasanter aspects of living in the city is discovering a hidden treasure, be it food, entertainment or fun. In this case, it's theater, specifically TOSOS, a revived company dedicated to edgy gay plays. — Weinstein, New York Blade

TOSOS is a member of

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards

(www.nyitawards.com)

and

United Stages

(www.UnitedStages.com)

United Stages has published the following plays premiered by TOSOS: David Bell's What The F**k! and Bernadette and the Butcher of Broadway; Mark Finley's The Mermaid; Robert Patrick's Hollywood at Sunset; Kathleen Warnock's Rock the Line; Chris Weikel: Gareth & Lynette and Penny Penniworth; and Doric Wilson's And He Made a Her; Street Theater and Now She Dances! They can be purchased online from the Drama Book Store ( www.dramabookshop.com )

The revival of TOSOS could not have happened had it not been for

Erik Haagensen, Leonard Jacobs & Jack Schlegel

to whom this website is dedicated.

TOSOS — The Other Side of Silence
PO Box 1192, New York, NY 10113 / (917) 697-3344

e-mail: tososnyc@gmail.com

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