Breaking the Binary: meet the founder behind a US theater company for trans and non-binary artists

‘I’m really thinking about how BTB can best be serving our community in a moment where the circumstances around are changing and shifting ever so rapidly every day,’ says George Strus, the founder of Breaking the Binary Theatre. Photograph: Austin Ruffer

For George Strus, theater was one of many roving interests during their childhood in northern New Jersey.

First, there was baseball. Then, a short stint in ice skating. “I was really into Webkinz for like, two months,” said the 27-year-old during a phone interview. A fixation on Sillybandz, the brightly colored, animal shaped rubber bracelets, soon followed.