Since the ancient world, Creation Stories have been told to help us not simply imagine the way the world was formed, but our divine place within it. Blending animation, poetry, music, stories rooted in various cultures and live elements, A New Creation Story celebrates Black Trans community and retells the making of the Universe — taking us on a journey from before the first molecule was crafted until the precise moment where everything has truly come to be.

Based on “A Temple Hymn to the Creation of the Universe”

Written by Dane Figueroa Edidi

From The Black Trans Prayer Book

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Dane Figueroa Edidi (Co-Director/Producer) - Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is a Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American Performance Artist, A Helen Hayes nominated actress, Author (Yemaya’s Daughters, Brew, Keeper, Incarnate, Wither, Bone, Solace, Hierodule, Baltimore: A Love Letter, Remains: A Gathering of Bones, The Blood of A Thousand Roots, For Black Trans Girls…,The Politics of Tears, and Infrastructure Of A Nation) Educator, A Helen Hayes Award Winning Playwright (Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (2020), For Black Trans Girls…, Ghost/Writer), Advocate,a 3x Helen Hayes Award Nominated choreographer and co-editor of the Black Trans Prayer Book. She wrote episode 9 (Refuge) of Roundhouse Theatre’s Webseries Homebound, narrated the Netflix Documentary The Visions of Us, and played Patra in King Esther, and Dr. Grace Grace in I Need Space.

J Mase III (Co-Director/Producer) is a Black/Trans/queer poet, educator and filmmaker based outside of LA. As an educator, Mase has worked with community members on Trans liberation, racial justice and moving towards reparations in spaces such as K-12 schools, universities, faith communities and restricted care facilities. He wrote and performed in the short film Bad Theology which premiered at the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Non-Fiction and a Creative Capital Award, he is co-director of the forthcoming documentary, the Black Trans Prayer Book and is finishing his latest solo work, Is Your God a Violent God? Finding a Theology for Survivors. Find him on Instagram & TikTok (@jmaseiii) and www.jmaseiii.com!

Audria LB (Co-Director/Cinematographer) (she/her/hers) is a Black transfeminine filmmaker, poet, and interdisciplinary artist, based in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2017 with B.A’.s in Media Arts and African American Studies. Audria LB seeks to fill the world with dope Black queer and trans art, shifting culture for left and progressive causes. Audria was an Emerging Documentary Artist at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies 2019-2020. Some of Audria’s work includes: Bridging Binaries, “O Body,” “Trans People Are TIRED…,” and “Skin in the Game.” Having published work in Lambda Literary Award-winning The Black Trans Prayer Book, she is currently a co-director on the upcoming Black Trans Prayer Book Documentary.