News || PGN's 48 Most Influential ft. TS Hawkins

Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) is thrilled to congratulate TS HAWKINS on being named one of PGN's "48 MOST INFLUENTIAL" individuals in our community. This prestigious recognition commemorates the 48th anniversary of Philadelphia Gay News and celebrates the extraordinary impact they have made in the Philadelphia region! Cheers all around to TS Hawkins and the other honorees!

ABOUT TS HAWKINS

TS HAWKINS (they/them) is an international author, performance poet, art activist, playwright, trauma-informed & award winning educator, and member of the Dramatists Guild.

Plays, short works, and books include Seeking Silence, sweet bread peaches (formerly, Cartons of Ultrasounds), Too Late to Apologize, In Their Silence (formerly, They’ll Neglect to Tell You), #RM2B, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, AGAIN, #SuiteReality, “don’t wanna dance with ghosts...”, #SuiteTea, the Are We Free Yet? project, Sugar Lumps & Black Eye Blues, Confectionately Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, The Hotel Haikus, and Becoming Saturn: a collection of rhymes, roses, and resistance.

Hawkins’ plays, short works, and powerful performances have been praised by the UPenn LGBT Center as a Scholar-in-Residence, the Barrymore Awards - Victory Foundation for Excellence in Theatre Education recipient, Philadelphia Magazine - Best of Philly, BroadwayWorld, Philly Voice, NPR, WHYY, WURD Radio, Philadelphia Weekly, Chicago Tribune, The Dramatist, and dosageMagazine.

Featured playwriting opportunities include Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language Semifinalist & Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist for 2024-25.

Ongoing interactive projects: TrailOff, Community Capital: an Afrofuturism South Philly Walking Experience, and Becoming Saturn; Hawkins’s first studio poetry album with HawkHatt Music