TOSOS II INC

In 1974, Off-Off Broadway veteran Doric Wilson, cabaret star Billy Blackwell and director Peter dell Valle, started the first professional gay theatre company in NYC. It was called The Other Side of Silence; TOSOS for short.

In 2002, directors Mark Finley and Barry Childs and playwright Wilson resurrected the company as TOSOS II, dedicating it to an honest and open exploration of the life experience and cultural sensibility of the GLBT community and to preserving and promoting our literary past in a determined effort to keep our theatrical heritage alive.

In 2004, TOSOS was honored by inclusion in the new permanent theater exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.

In 2007, founder Doric Wilson received the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Artistic Achievement.

In 2009, Mark Finley decided to take the company back to its origins, rebranding it TOSOS – The Other Side of Silence.