Angela Trimbur:
An all-out tour de force.

Angela Trimbur’s first experience of community was at her mother’s dance studio in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.¹ “I spent so much time there, it was basically my second home,” says the actor, choreographer, writer and dancer, who’s speaking to me on a video call from LA, having narrowly escaped a hurricane on a weekend road trip. Outside of classes, Trimbur’s mom would get people together for themed parties or to paint props and sets for recitals. “I felt like I was always hosting people. I became a little community leader by proxy.”

This community would disappear suddenly, however, just before Trimbur was supposed to start middle school. After speaking with the parent of a student who was a Jehovah’s Witness, her mother became “swirly-eyed” for the religion. She closed...