Author Event: Enid Brain’s play GIRL: A Gender Expression

A queer playwrights’ craft hour, followed by a reading and discussion of Enid Brain’s new play GIRL: A Gender Expression.

Join us for a playwrights’ craft hour, reading, and discussion of Enid Brain’s newest play, GIRL: a gender expression.
Looking inward and outward, Girl… is a rage against transphobia, a reflection on artistic, sexual, and gender anxiety, a philosophical auto-theoretical contemplation of what life in the current moment means, a political treatise, and a moment for community.
Also hopefully it’s funny and not depressing? Too many trans plays are depressing. Mixing dialogue, speeches, dance sequences, and everything in between, Girl… is a radical demand for specificity, self-acceptance, and a deconstruction of the traditional ways that plays are created that attempts to move, enrage, comfort, and challenge its audience.
Featuring performers Ry Albinus, Aster Drewe, and Carmen Castillo. 
Enid Brain is a transsexual lesbian based in NYC by way of the Midwest and South. Enid is a teacher, multi-disciplinary artist, and activist whose writing has been performed around the country and has been published in multiple languages. She is a semi-regular contributor to Howlround, writing on how to create a new theatre culture in the age of capitalist crisis, and has contributed two book chapters; one for Greenhaven Publishing on Green Politics and one [co-authored with Olivia Wood] for Lexington Books on slasher films as queer texts. Enid’s work has been recognized including with the Special Jury Prize, FMM Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works and the Elyse L. Naas Scholarship for Playwriting from the City College of New York, both for her play “A Faerie Tale of New York.” Enid also won the Grand Jury Choice for Best Social Issues Film from the FFTG Awards for her film “What Being a Woman Means to Me.” She has previously been the Associate Artistic Director of This Is Not a Theatre Company, the Creative Producer for Experimental Bitch Presents, and the Founding Artistic Director of Embodied Theatre Project. Her play, Girl: A Gender Expression, was published in 2026 by 1319 Press. Currently, Enid studies and teaches at the City College of New York. Enid loves the world and is not a nihilist.
Hive Mind Books is a queer and trans bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. We are located off of the Dekalb Ave (L), Myrtle-Wyckoff (L/M), and Knickerbocker (M) subway stations. Our coffee and tea bar will be open for the duration of this event.