Lyralen Kaye, fae/they, founded Another Country Productions as a theater company in October of 2003, introducing SLAMBoston, Diverse Voices in Theatre to the Boston Scene. In 2011, Lyralen began to transition the company to film. In 2020, Lyralen created Assigned Female at Birth, a queer series about some bodies. The series is now available on OTV, Apple TV, Roku and YouTube.
Another Country Productions has won 12 web and new media awards for Assigned Female at Birth, including the NE Film Star 2021 Award for Lyralen Kaye. AFAB has also branched out and members of cast and crew speak publicly about gender, sexuality and ability as well as on line leading groups for parents of non-binary and trans kids.
Another Country’s mission has always been to represent the voices not heard in the mainstream, and to do this with as much agency for the minority artists as possible. We use consent culture as part of our business model as well as our on-set processs.
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Another Country Productions
Phone: 617-939-4846
Press contact: Amber Krasinski
Email: anothercountryproductions1@gmail.com
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Press contact: Amber Krasinski
anothercountryproductions1@gmail.com
617-939-4846
What: OTV DISTRIBUTION FOR LYRALEN KAYE (fae/they)
Assigned Female at Birth, A web series about some bodies
Devised, created and directed by Lyralen Kaye
When: Premieres on OTV, Apple TV and Roku on June 1.
Where: https://www.weareo.tv
On June 1, 2023 OTV (https://www.weareo.tv/) is releasing all three seasons of Lyralen Kaye’s Assigned Female at Birth on their platform, on Apple TV and through Roku. This includes a world premier of all 8 episodes of Season 3, entitled Speed Dating Ableism.
Assigned Female at Birth began as a pandemic project and premiered its first episode in October of 2020. Lyralen Kaye (fae/they) interviewed over 50 people, mostly non-binary and trans, and then cast and filmed 35 actors using remote filming techniques created specifically for the project. In 2021 Assigned Female at Birth won eleven awards, including the NE Film Star Award for Kaye themself.
The series focuses on the lives of 3 families struggling with marriage or commitment: a Black trans family, a white trans family and a middle aged non-binary couple. re interspersed with mockumentary Greek chorus style address to the camera by non-binary, trans and cis female minor characters talking about the issues that affect queer lives. The style is serio-comic, the content is right here, right now about outlier at risk lives, and the attitude is unabashedly proud.
Distribution through OTV gives Assigned Female at Birth greater reach and impact, so that the stories of non-binary and trans people can be seen and heard, and that the series message of radical inclusion can support queer lives.
This is par for the course for Lyralen Kaye, who began their career in Boston as an award-winning queer feminist slam poet and solo performer. Then, in 2003, Lyralen opened the theater company Another Country Productions and ran it for ten years, producing over 30 SLAMBOSTON, Diverse Voices in Theater festivals as well as full-length plays, before returning to their own performance career.
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Cost: OTV is a subscription tv network. Anyone with Apple TV can access Assigned Female at Birth in June.
For more information about Assigned Female at Birth, visit www.anothercountryproductions.com.
Phone: 617-939-4846.
For more information about Lyralen Kaye, visit www.lyralenkaye.com.