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 From groundbreaking new work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.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
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Short-listed for Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology 2022 (UK).The first of its kind, this collection compiles new plays from eight distinct, vital trans voices in theatre, featuring plays with nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality.
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Part One Disembodied Articulations |
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Waiting, Watching, and Witnessing as Queer Praxis in Sagittarius Ponderosa |
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Generations of Language: Mashuq Mushtaq Deen in Conversation with Stephanie Hsu |
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How to tell time (when you are trans and processing trauma) |
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How to clean your room (and remember all your trauma) |
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Witnessing the Revolutionary Mundane: Raphael Amahl Khouri's Queer Documentary Theatre |
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"Challenging Every Memory": Manifesting Futurity in The Devils Between Us |
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Part Three Familiar/Familial |
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Doctor Voynich and Her Children |
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Transcending Gender to "Soar Above the Earth" in Ty Defoe's Firebird Tattoo |
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All In and Out of the Family: A Critical Introduction to Azure Osborne-Lee's Crooked Parts |
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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 HBOs 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.
