Catherine Miller remembers the night they came out as nonbinary. They were coming home from a 2017 Lizzo concert at Thalia Hall with Chicago actor and musician Em Modaff and some other fellow performers they’d met through the Fly Honey Show .

“I got into a car with Em to get back home, and I just turned to them and was like, ‘I think I’m nonbinary,’ and Em turned and said, ‘I’m nonbinary too.’”

As a casting director, Miller has long advocated for nonbinary and trans representation in theater, and their commitment to LGBTQ+ visibility had deep roots even before they identified as nonbinary—or took up casting as a career. “My aunt is gay, my uncle is trans. I’ve always had trans people in my life,” says Miller, who grew up in San Diego, attended the Theatre School at DePaul Universit

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