"The First Jew in Canada" is the incredible true story of Jacques LaFargue...the 18th Century Transgender Man You’ve Never Heard Of! A wild journey in story, crossing oceans, religions, genders, and centuries overlayed with the personal account of S. Bear Bergman, a Jewish transgender man whose modern life mirrors Jacques’s in startling, hilarious, exhausting and illuminating ways. “Skillful…deeply affecting…funny and sad and sweet and difficult and true, a “Bear” hug of a show—Broadway World.

Part of Rochester Fringe 2026.