Who Is Trevor?

Founders

James Lecesne

James Lecesne has been telling stories for over twenty-five years. He created several one-person shows including WORD OF MOUTH, which won the NY Drama Desk Award and The NY Outer Critics Circle Award.  TREVOR, which started out as a piece he performed in WORD OF MOUTH, was later turned into a short film and went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short .  TREVOR also inspired THE TREVOR PROJECT.  He created THE ROAD HOME: Stories of Children of War, which was presented at the Asia Society in NYC as well as at the International Peace Initiative at the Hague.  For TV, he adapted Armistead Maupin’s FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY and has written for the popular TV show WILL & GRACE.  James also founded The After The Storm Foundation, a non profit arts organization designed to benefit the youth of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and he is the executive producer of the award winning documentary film, AFTER THE STORM, which inspired high school drama clubs and community theaters around the country to get involved in the movement to revive New Orleans.  He has written three novels for young adults, and he is the editor of an anthology entitled THE LETTER Q, a collection of letters written by queer writers to their younger selves.  As an actor, James has appeared on stage and in TV and film. Favorites include Sex & The City, Home for the Holidays, the original off-Broadway production of Caryl Churchill’s CLOUD 9, the 30th anniversary production of BOYS IN THE BAND, EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES, written and directed by Eve Ensler, Doug Wright’s, I AM MY OWN WIFE and the 2012 Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's THE BEST MAN on Broadway. He teaches Story & Structure at the New York Film Academy. 

 

Peggy Rajski

Producer/Director PEGGY RAJSKI has been making movies for over 30 years.

 

Her producing credits include TOWELHEAD, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, LITTLE MAN TATE, THE GRIFTERS, MATEWAN, EIGHT MEN OUT and THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET. Her collaborations with filmmakers like Jodie Foster, Stephen Frears and Alan Ball have garnered over 40 major award nominations including wins at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Academy Awards.

 

But her proudest accomplishment? She directed and co-produced the 1994 Oscar winning short film TREVOR and founded the Trevor Project with her fellow filmmakers Randy Stone and James Lecesne.
 
When the HBO debut airing of the film was approaching in 1998, a friend of Peggy’s mentioned how wonderful it would be to provide a safe place for young people to call who were feeling similar to Trevor. When Peggy discovered no such service existed, she and Randy and James took action. Within three short months, they created the Trevor Project and had the nationwide Trevor Lifeline ready to go live, 24 hours a day.
 
Today Peggy continues producing films and teaches at New York University’s Graduate Film program where she is an Associate Arts Professor and the Producing Area Head of Studies. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science and a past board member of Film Independent and New York Women in Film and Television.

 

She proudly continues her work with Trevor.

 

 

 

Randy Stone

Randy Stone (1958 - 2007) was an Oscar and Emmy Award winning Producer. He began his career in casting at age 17, casting over 50 television movies, eventually winning the Emmy for his work on the CBS movie The Incident. Stone was a Senior VP for 20th Century Fox Television and supervised the original casting and development for dozens of programs including Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, The Practice and The X-Files. The Randy Stone East and West Call Centers are named in honor and recognition of Stone’s incredible dedication to suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth.  The family and friends of Randy Stone support the Trevor Lifeline with sustaining financial support, continuing Randy’s legacy with The Trevor Project.