Episodes

  • The Queer-Trans Performance Family Tree is more of a Galaxy

    The Queer-Trans Performance Family Tree is more of a Galaxy
    Sep 13 2023
    Dr. H. May joins host Nicolas Shannon Savard, who introduces the Queer-Trans Performance Family Tree Project, an interactive, open-access digital exhibit visually connecting trans artists across the United States to the collectives and communities who have sustained our work. This episode explores the role of mentorship in both the research for the project and in their own work as gender nonconforming theatremakers.
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    49 mins
  • Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable With Guests David Silvernail, Janet Werther, Victoria Lafave, Jordan Ealey, and Kelli Crump

    Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable With Guests David Silvernail, Janet Werther, Victoria Lafave, Jordan Ealey, and Kelli Crump
    Sep 6 2023
    What role does white supremacy play in the creation of the queer theatre canon? What power and what responsibility do we—as queer theatremakers, historians, and educators—have to challenge canons and archives that define “queer” almost exclusively as white and cisgender? Artist-scholars Janet Werther, Victoria LaFave, Jordan Ealey, David Silvernail, and Kelli Crump join host Nicolas Shannon Savard to tackle these questions and to queer the archive.
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    48 mins
  • Making Space for Queer Futurity in Texas

    Making Space for Queer Futurity in Texas
    Aug 16 2023
    Austin’s pop princess, p1nkstar, shares the story of her evolution from performance artist creating a pop star persona for Instagram to real life pop star to community leader creating spaces for fellow trans artists to showcase their work in Texas. This episode also features guest co-host Melissa Lin Sturges, coordinator of the annual Doric Wilson Panel for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) LGBTQ+ Focus Group.
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    36 mins
  • Making Space for Self-Authorship through Audio Description

    Making Space for Self-Authorship through Audio Description
    Jul 31 2023
    51 mins
  • Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy

    Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy
    Jul 12 2023
    J.C. Pankratz returns to the podcast to reflect on the first full production of their play Seahorse, directed by Nicolas Shannon Savard, starring Emmett Podgorski. Nicolas, J.C., and Emmett discuss how the collaborative process, from auditions through closing night, was informed by queer community building, access intimacy, and consent-based practice. They offer behind-the-scenes perspectives and concrete examples of how tools and ideas discussed in previous episodes played out in practice.
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    59 mins
  • Queer-Trans Intimacy: One Foot in the Academy and the Other in the Nightclub

    Queer-Trans Intimacy: One Foot in the Academy and the Other in the Nightclub
    Jul 5 2023
    Nicolas Shannon asks Joy Brooke Fairfield and Raja Benz how their intimacy work is informed by queer theory and critical theory. Their conversation bounces between queer of color theory, decolonial theory, disability theory, and the dim glow of the night club; between past, present, and future; between the ideas they’re sure of and the ones they’re working out in real time. Bonus! It comes with dozens of recommended readings.
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    47 mins
  • Queer Intimacies in Too-Near Dystopian Futures

    Queer Intimacies in Too-Near Dystopian Futures
    Jun 28 2023
    Host Nicolas Shannon Savard and playwright Leanna Keyes discuss her play "Doctor Voynich and Her Children". What does it mean to stage trans stories about queer motherhood, abortion, intimacy, choice, and power in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and the ongoing legislative attacks on reproductive rights and the trans community?
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    48 mins
  • Queer-Trans Intimacy Work: Cracking Gender Open

    Queer-Trans Intimacy Work: Cracking Gender Open
    Jun 21 2023
    In the first part of a two-part conversation on queer-trans intimacy direction and choreography, Nicolas talks with Theatrical Intimacy Education faculty members Dr. Joy Brooke Fairfield and Raja Benz about their courses Working with Trans & Non-Binary Artists and Staging Intimacy Beyond the Binary. They discuss crafting courses that are less Trans-101 and more cracking gender open, resisting patriarchal and colonialist scripts, and bringing queer culture into the rehearsal room.
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    47 mins