Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2

Leanna Keyes is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist and producer with a primary focus on queer and trans people. She aims to authentically portray the full complexities of queer life (past, present, and future).Lindsey Mantoan is the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Theatre Arts and an Associate Professor at Linfield University. Her current research focuses on contemporary musical theater. She is the author or co-editor of seven books, an intimacy director, a director, and a dramaturg.Angela Farr Schiller is an Emmy® Award–winning director, a multiple award-winning dramaturg, scholar, and professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Additionally, Angela works as a Dramaturg-in-Residence with the Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights (WTP), the leading new play development organization in the Southeast, United States.

Precisely what my students and I had hoped for. With these eight plays, each accompanied by an intelligent introduction, the collection highlights how trans writers play with time in order to shed light on—and undermine—the strictures of white Western heteronormativity.

• Preface by Leanna Keyes Introduction by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr SchillerPart One: Underworld Circling Time: Cercle Hermaphroditos and the Continuum of Trans Historyby Joshua Bastian Cole-KurzCercle Hermaphroditos by Shualee Cook The Limitlessness of Red Rainbowby Esperanza Rosales BalcárcelRed Rainbow by Azure D. Osborne-LeeOnline Communities and Gender Performancesby Jessica Elaine EllisonDegenerates by Else WentPart Two: EarthBuilding a Home, or, The Labor of Queer Kinshipby Ali-Reza MirsajadiClose to Home by Sharifa Yazmeen Fluid Tactics: Sloka Krishnan in Conversation with Maxe Crandallby Maxe Crandall and Sloka KrishnanThe Bugs by Sloka Krishnan“Our Edges are Connected”: Glitching Touch in The Skin of Other Menby Percival HornakThe Skin of Other Men by Fig LefevrePart Three: SkyUn-Structuring Gender: The Trans-Relational World of Oh, Buddyby Ellenor Riley-ConditOh, Buddy by Hal Cosentino“I feel now the future in the instant”: Magic and Utopia in Gender Playby Linnea ValdiviaGender Play, or what you Will co-created by Will Wilhelm and Erin Murray