Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 3

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.

• AcknowledgementsLicensingPlay SynopsesBiographiesIntroduction by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller Part 1: Exploring the Dark Places"Notes on Playing (with Monsters) in the Fog: Mysteries of Queer Adolescence in M Sloth Levine’s The Interrobangers" by Jo Michael RezesThe Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine“Faustian Utopia: Jouissance and Cruel Optimism in Charlotte Snow’s Magic Girl” by kt shorbMagic Girl!...and Her Demons by Charlotte Snow“Bickering with the Bad and Banal: Staging t4t Interregnums” by Ryan Adelsheimt4t by Jess ScottPart 2: Dance Break“Nations Made of Stars: An Introduction to The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas” by Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas"’I was lucky I wasn't born a man’: New Orleans Second Line Parades and Transitions in The More the Man” by Eric M. GloverThe More the Man by Jameson P. Murray “Man, Moon, and the Lorde” by Stephanie HsuMan and Moon by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-MorrisPart 3: Waves and Water“(Extra)ordinary Heroics in Samuel Achilles Edwards’ Staging of Trans Antiquity” by Caitlin A. Kane Caeneus by Samuel Achilles“The ‘Ruhls’ of Play: Mythical and Real Currents in Tyler Rocio Ecoña’s Unfair Advantage” by Joshua Bastian Cole-KurzUnfair Advantage by Tyler Rocio Ecoña“What We Leave & What We Carry in Eliana Rubin’s Tides” by Fig LefevreTides by Eliana Rubin