In A Thousand Stonewalls, an ensemble (of anywhere from 10 to 50 performers) attempts to stage the events of the first night of the Stonewall riots using historical accounts from eyewitnesses. Much like a riot, however, history gets messy. The many contradictory accounts of that night—from reporters, future LGBTQ trailblazers, the NYPD, and names overlooked by history—probe what we’ve centered in our retelling of the Stonewall riots, who and what we’ve left out of Stonewall’s mythology, and our relationship to resistance in politically frightening times.

A Thousand Stonewalls received a developmental reading through LaMaMa’s Experiments series in 2025.