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The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays: Sagittarius Ponderosa; The Betterment Society; how to clean your room; She He Me; The Devils Between Us; Doctor Voynich and Her Children; Firebird Tattoo; Crooked Parts
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by Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Ty Defoe, MJ Kaufman, Raphaël Amahl Khouri, J. Chavez
Azure D. Osborne-Lee
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays: Sagittarius Ponderosa; The Betterment Society; how to clean your room; She He Me; The Devils Between Us; Doctor Voynich and Her Children; Firebird Tattoo; Crooked Parts
336
by Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Ty Defoe, MJ Kaufman, Raphaël Amahl Khouri, J. Chavez
Azure D. Osborne-Lee
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Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology category
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage is the first play anthology to offer eight new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters.
This edited collection establishes a canon of contemporary American trans theatre which represents a variety of performance modes and genres. From groundbreaking new work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.
Edited by Lindsey Mantoan, Angela Farr Schiller and Leanna Keyes, the plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans performers, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study.
Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
how to clean your room by j. chavez
She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri
The Devils Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin
Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes
Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe
Crooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage is the first play anthology to offer eight new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters.
This edited collection establishes a canon of contemporary American trans theatre which represents a variety of performance modes and genres. From groundbreaking new work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.
Edited by Lindsey Mantoan, Angela Farr Schiller and Leanna Keyes, the plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans performers, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study.
Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
how to clean your room by j. chavez
She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri
The Devils Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin
Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes
Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe
Crooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350179233 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication date: | 04/22/2021 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 336 |
| File size: | 984 KB |
About the Author
Angela Farr Schiller (she/her) is the Director of Arts Education at the two time Southeastern Emmy Award winning ArtsBridge Foundation for the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, in Atlanta, GA. She researches the intersections between race and performance. Formerly serving as an Assistant Professor, the Resident Dramaturg, and the Coordinator of Undergraduate Research for the Department of Theatre&Performance Studies at Kennesaw State University. Angela also works as a Dramaturg-In-Residence with Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights (WTP), the leading new play development organization in the Southeast, with a focus on new play development. https://www.angelaschiller.com
Leanna Keyes (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate theater artist with a primary focus on queer and trans people, aiming to authentically portray the full complexities of queer life (past, present, and future). She was a playwright in residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis and has been commissioned by Valiant Theatre in Chicago. Her plays have been performed and studied at universities around the United States, including at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries.” Get in touch: leannakeyes.com
Lindsey Mantoan (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Resident Dramaturg at Linfield College. She researches contemporary US character, both on the national and individual level. She is the author of War as Performance: Conflict in Iraq and Political Theatricality (Palgrave 2018) and co-editor with Sara Brady of Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death, and Performance in HBO's Game of Thrones (McFarland 2018) and Performance in a Militarized Culture (Routledge 2017). In 2019, she won Linfield's Allen and Pat Kelley Faculty Scholar Award, and in 2020, she won the Mid-America Theatre Conference's Robert A. Shanke Award for Theatre Research. She is an occasional contributor to CNN.com.
Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) is an award-winning Black queer theatre maker from south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He holds an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice (2011) from Royal Central School of Speech&Drama as well as an MA in Women's&Gender Studies (2008) and a BA in English&Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin (2005). Azure is the recipient/winner of Parity Productions' 2018 Annual Commission, Downtown Urban Arts Festival's 2018 Best Play Award, and the 2015 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest. Find out more at: azureosbornelee.com
Ty Defoe (Giizhig) (he/him/they/we) is from the Oneida and Ojibwe Nations of Wisconsin and resides in NYC. Writer, lyricist, scorpio, two-spirit IndigiQueer interdisciplinary shape-shifting artist. Writing publications can be viewed in the Routledge Press, Pitkin Review, Thorny Locust Magazine, and Howl Round, and Ty is a TransLab Fellow. Tydefoe.com or AllMyRelations.Earth
MJ Kaufman (he/they) is a writer from Oregon currently living in Brooklyn. A few years ago they founded Trans Lab, a fellowship for TGNC Theater Artists with Kit Yan. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, WP Theater, InterAct, Colt Coeur, National Asian American Theater Company and in Russia and Australia among others. They have received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, The New Museum and SPACE on Ryder Farm. They are a graduate of Yale School of Drama and they have also written for Netflix. They like to bike, cook, and play with their dog Milkshake.
Raphaël Amahl Khouri (he/they) a queer transgender Jordanian documentary playwright and theatremaker living in Berlin. Khouri is the author of several plays, including She He Me (Kosmos Theatre, Vienna 2019), Ich Brauche Meine Ruhe (Politik im Freien Theater Festival, Munich 2018) and No Matter Where I Go (Beirut 2014). Khouri is also a part of the Climate Change Theater Action and their play Oh, How We Loved Our Tuna! was read internationally as part of the initiative. Khouri's work has been published in several U.S. journals, as well as Global Queer Plays (Oberon Books 2018), Skrivena Ljubav (Samizdat 2018) and Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (Palgrave 2016). Khouri's work will also appear in the upcoming International Queer Drama anthology published by Neofelis Verlag in 2020.
j. chavez (they/them) is a recent graduate from Western Washington University with a BA in Theatre. They are an award winning playwright from the Pacific Northwest. They are the Founder and Artistic Director of Haus of Hazard Theatre Productions in Bellingham, Washington. When they aren't making theatre, j.chavez can be found drinking coffee, hanging out with friends, and performing as drag queen Sue Nami-Meadows. Check them out at: jchaveztheatre.weebly.com
Sharifa Yasmin (she/her) is a trans Egyptian-American director and playwright from South Carolina. She has completed fellowships with The Drama League, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geva Theatre, Hypokrit Theatre and is a 2020 Eugene O'Neill national directing fellow. Yasmin graduated cum laude from Winthrop University with a B.A. in theatre performance and a minor in sociology. She uses these areas of study to produce pieces of theatre that are not only powerful, but focus on socio economic issues and marginalized communities. Her work reflects the intersection of queerness and Arab-American identity. www.sharifayasmin.com
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (he/they) is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a Playwrights Center CORE Writer, and a 2019 Lambda Literary Award Winner. His full-length plays include Flood (upcoming: Kansas City Rep, 2021), The Empty Place (NYU/New Dramatists joint commission), The Betterment Society, The Shaking Earth (postponed production, National Queer Theater, 2021), and Draw the Circle (productions: PlayMakers Rep Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; published: Dramatists Play Service; winner of the Lammy). Deen's work has been presented/developed/supported by a number of institutions including Sundance Institute/Ucross, Blue Mountain Center, The Public Theater, NYTW, MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Target Margin Theatre, among others. He is represented by the Gurman Agency.
Leanna Keyes (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate theater artist with a primary focus on queer and trans people, aiming to authentically portray the full complexities of queer life (past, present, and future). She was a playwright in residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis and has been commissioned by Valiant Theatre in Chicago. Her plays have been performed and studied at universities around the United States, including at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries.” Get in touch: leannakeyes.com
Lindsey Mantoan (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Resident Dramaturg at Linfield College. She researches contemporary US character, both on the national and individual level. She is the author of War as Performance: Conflict in Iraq and Political Theatricality (Palgrave 2018) and co-editor with Sara Brady of Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death, and Performance in HBO's Game of Thrones (McFarland 2018) and Performance in a Militarized Culture (Routledge 2017). In 2019, she won Linfield's Allen and Pat Kelley Faculty Scholar Award, and in 2020, she won the Mid-America Theatre Conference's Robert A. Shanke Award for Theatre Research. She is an occasional contributor to CNN.com.
Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) is an award-winning Black queer theatre maker from south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He holds an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice (2011) from Royal Central School of Speech&Drama as well as an MA in Women's&Gender Studies (2008) and a BA in English&Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin (2005). Azure is the recipient/winner of Parity Productions' 2018 Annual Commission, Downtown Urban Arts Festival's 2018 Best Play Award, and the 2015 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest. Find out more at: azureosbornelee.com
Ty Defoe (Giizhig) (he/him/they/we) is from the Oneida and Ojibwe Nations of Wisconsin and resides in NYC. Writer, lyricist, scorpio, two-spirit IndigiQueer interdisciplinary shape-shifting artist. Writing publications can be viewed in the Routledge Press, Pitkin Review, Thorny Locust Magazine, and Howl Round, and Ty is a TransLab Fellow. Tydefoe.com or AllMyRelations.Earth
MJ Kaufman (he/they) is a writer from Oregon currently living in Brooklyn. A few years ago they founded Trans Lab, a fellowship for TGNC Theater Artists with Kit Yan. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, WP Theater, InterAct, Colt Coeur, National Asian American Theater Company and in Russia and Australia among others. They have received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, The New Museum and SPACE on Ryder Farm. They are a graduate of Yale School of Drama and they have also written for Netflix. They like to bike, cook, and play with their dog Milkshake.
Raphaël Amahl Khouri (he/they) a queer transgender Jordanian documentary playwright and theatremaker living in Berlin. Khouri is the author of several plays, including She He Me (Kosmos Theatre, Vienna 2019), Ich Brauche Meine Ruhe (Politik im Freien Theater Festival, Munich 2018) and No Matter Where I Go (Beirut 2014). Khouri is also a part of the Climate Change Theater Action and their play Oh, How We Loved Our Tuna! was read internationally as part of the initiative. Khouri's work has been published in several U.S. journals, as well as Global Queer Plays (Oberon Books 2018), Skrivena Ljubav (Samizdat 2018) and Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (Palgrave 2016). Khouri's work will also appear in the upcoming International Queer Drama anthology published by Neofelis Verlag in 2020.
j. chavez (they/them) is a recent graduate from Western Washington University with a BA in Theatre. They are an award winning playwright from the Pacific Northwest. They are the Founder and Artistic Director of Haus of Hazard Theatre Productions in Bellingham, Washington. When they aren't making theatre, j.chavez can be found drinking coffee, hanging out with friends, and performing as drag queen Sue Nami-Meadows. Check them out at: jchaveztheatre.weebly.com
Sharifa Yasmin (she/her) is a trans Egyptian-American director and playwright from South Carolina. She has completed fellowships with The Drama League, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geva Theatre, Hypokrit Theatre and is a 2020 Eugene O'Neill national directing fellow. Yasmin graduated cum laude from Winthrop University with a B.A. in theatre performance and a minor in sociology. She uses these areas of study to produce pieces of theatre that are not only powerful, but focus on socio economic issues and marginalized communities. Her work reflects the intersection of queerness and Arab-American identity. www.sharifayasmin.com
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (he/they) is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a Playwrights Center CORE Writer, and a 2019 Lambda Literary Award Winner. His full-length plays include Flood (upcoming: Kansas City Rep, 2021), The Empty Place (NYU/New Dramatists joint commission), The Betterment Society, The Shaking Earth (postponed production, National Queer Theater, 2021), and Draw the Circle (productions: PlayMakers Rep Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; published: Dramatists Play Service; winner of the Lammy). Deen's work has been presented/developed/supported by a number of institutions including Sundance Institute/Ucross, Blue Mountain Center, The Public Theater, NYTW, MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Target Margin Theatre, among others. He is represented by the Gurman Agency.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: “In a Trans Time and Space” by Angela, Leanna, and LindseyPart One: Disembodied Articulations
2. Introduction to Sagittarius Ponderosa: Waiting, Watching, and Witnessing as Queer Praxis in Sagittarius Ponderosa by Jesse O'Rear
3. Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
4. Introduction to The Betterment Society: Generations of Language: Mashuq Mushtaq Deen in Conversation with Stephanie Hsu by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen and Stephanie Hsu
5. The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
6. Introduction to how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma): how to tell time (when you are trans and processing trauma) by Finn Lefevre
7. how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma) by j. chavez
Part Two: Fraught Spaces
8. Introduction to She He Me: Witnessing the Revolutionary Mundane: Raphaël Amahl Khouri's Queer Documentary Theatre by Melory Mirashrafi
9. She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri
10. Introduction to The Devils Between Us: “Challenging Every Memory”: Manifesting Futurity in The Devils Between Us by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel and Ali-Reza Mirsajadi
11. The Devils Between Usby Sharifa Yasmin
Part Three: Familiar/Familial
12. Introduction to Doctor Voynich and Her Children: Cruising Dystopia by Jaclyn Pryor
13. Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes
14. Introduction to Firebird Tattoo: Transcending Gender to 'Soar Above the Earth' in Ty Defoe's Firebird Tattoo by Courtney Mohler
15. Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe
16. Introduction to Crooked Parts: All In and Out of the Family: A Critical Introduction to Azure Osborne-Lee's Crooked Parts by Marquis Bey
17. Crooked Parts by Azure D. Osborne-Lee
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