About this Performance
Creative Director and Host: Qween Jean
Icon, activist, and Tony Award-winner Qween Jean returns to Little Island for an explosive, one-night–only ballroom extravaganza. The third annual Summer Legacy Ball calls together a group of legendary performers and fabulous runway walkers in celebration and virtuosic spectacle.
Run time: 3 hours
The Cast
Creative Credits
Qween Jean
Creative Director Qween Jean is a proud Haitian storyteller and human rights activist committed to protecting all humanity. She’s thrilled to return to Little Island for The Legacy Ball. Recently, Qween has designed costumes for Liberation (Broadway), Cats: The Jellicle Ball! (Broadway), Oh Happy Day, Saturday Church, Swamp Dwellers, and Donja R. Love’s new film Home.
Jean founded Black Trans Liberation, an organization that provides weekly fellowship, food, groceries, and housing resources for the TGNC community. She is the author of Revolution is Love (Aperture).
2026 José Esteban Muñoz Award Winner. Obie Award. Qween recently won the Audelco Award and Henry Hewes Award for Cats: The Jellicle Ball! Jean was a finalist for the NYC David Prize. She was the cover of American Theatre Magazine, entitled “A New Era!” MFA from NYU Tisch. “NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL.” Learn more at blacktransliberation.com.
Simean Carpenter
Scenic Designer Bio to come.
Cha See
Lighting Designer
Cha See made history as the first Filipino lighting designer on Broadway with Oh, Mary! and Liberation. Her honors include the 2026 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for The Unknown at Studio Seaview, a 2026 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Design, and an Obie Citation for Wet Brain at Playwrights Horizons. Recent highlights include Oh, Mary! in the West End, Jesus Christ Superstar at Goodspeed, The Disappear at Audible, The Monsters at Two River and Manhattan Theatre Club, Trophy Boys at MCC, Josh Sharp: Ta-Da! at Greenwich Theatre, Hold Me in the Water at Playwrights Horizons, and You Will Get Sick at Roundabout. Upcoming: Eureka Day at Huntington Theatre Company, The Whoopi Monologues at Lincoln Center, and The Notebook at Theatre Group Asia. seelightingdesign.com | @seethruuu
DJ Potts
Sound Designer
Off-Broadway: The Waterfall (Women’s Project), Triple Threat (Traverse32), Icons of Culture (PAC NYC), Refuge: A Concert Series (PAC NYC), Open Call (The Shed), The Bull Jean Stories (The Drama League), Hello Again (The Drama League). Regional: The Aves (Berkeley Rep), Primary Trust (Cleveland Playhouse), Red Pitch (Olney), Kunene and the King (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (Chautauqua Theater Company), King James (Northern Stage), The Children (Northern Stage). Associate Design Broadway: An Enemy of the People, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Fat Ham, Topdog/Underdog, Slave Play, Clyde’s. Education: Romeo & Juliet (The New School), Glass n’ Mirrors (The New School), Angela Davis School for Girls with Big Eyes (Rutgers), Holy Week (Rutgers).
After The Show
After Summer Legacy Ball, head to The Play Ground for a free after party featuring DJ DANIRO.