NYFA's Q & A-List - Curated and Moderated by Tova Laiter: Join NYFA’s live virtual Q&A with Award-Winning Actor, Writer & Anything’s Possible Director, Billy Porter
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Join NYFA’s live virtual Q&A with Award-Winning Actor, Writer & Anything’s Possible Director, Billy Porter
About Anything’s Possible
The modern coming-of-age story follows Kelsa ( Eva Reign), a trans high school senior. After Khal ( Abubakr Ali) posts online about his school crush, the internet encourages him to go for it. Anything’s Possible tells the story of Kelsa and Khal navigating a senior-year relationship that neither could have expected. Renee Elise Goldsberry, Courtnee Carter, Kelly Lamor Wilson and Grant Reynolds also star.
It’s a really sweet movie that finds a way to be both light and meaningful at the same time. It accurately showcases the world we live in today with the feel of a classic, coming-of-age romantic comedy.
You can watch the Anything’s Possible trailer here.
About Billy Porter
Billy Porter is an award-winning actor, singer, director, composer, and playwright. He won the Emmy Award for Lead Actor for his appearance in FX’s drama Pose, and most recently received his third Emmy nomination for this role. A Hollywood Walk of Fame inductee, Porter has numerous theatre credits, including the role of “Lola” in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, which he originated in 2013 and for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards, as well as the Grammy for best musical theatre album. He just won his second Tony Award in 2022 for “Best Musical” as a producer on A Strange Loop.
Recently, Porter appeared in the third season of FX’s Pose, Amazon’s Cinderella re-make as the Fab G, alongside Camila Cabello and Idina Menzel. Porter also recently appeared in the Paramount Players comedy Like a Boss, alongside Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne and Salma Hayek, Baz Luhrman’s The Get Down, and under the direction of Barry Levinson, Porter starred in The Humbling, alongside Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig. He just finished the second season of CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone, Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Apocalypse, and narrated HBO Max’s Equal. Porter can currently be heard in Disney+'s animated series, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.
Upcoming, he will star in Our Son alongside Luke Evans and direct a teen comedy from Gabrielle Union’s company To Be Real, as well as an episode of Fox’s anthology series Accused.
His directorial debut Anything’s Possible, a coming-of-age film written by Ximena García Lecuona, is being released on July 22 on Amazon Prime Video.
Porter released his first literary project, Unprotected, in October 2021, which was published by Abrams Press. As a recording artist, Porter most recently released his single “Children” under his new record deal with Island Records (UK) and Republic Records (US).
Porter is also a graduate of The Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA and is an adjunct professor at his alma mater Carnegie Mellon University’s School Of Drama, where he has directed productions of Company and Letters From ‘Nam. Additionally, Porter has received an honorary doctorate from Washington & Jefferson College.