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Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology categoryThe 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 From groundbreaking new work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.Edited by Lindsey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 KaufmanThe Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deenhow to clean your room by j. chavezShe He Me by Raphaël Amahl KhouriThe Devils Between Us by Sharifa YasminDoctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna KeyesFirebird Tattoo by Ty DefoeCrooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee

Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology categoryThe 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 From groundbreaking new work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.Edited by Lindsey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 KaufmanThe Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deenhow to clean your room by j. chavezShe He Me by Raphaël Amahl KhouriThe Devils Between Us by Sharifa YasminDoctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna KeyesFirebird Tattoo by Ty DefoeCrooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee

"This anthology is special: a book of trans plays about trans life as it is actually, materially lived in time and space". - Anthony Sansonetti in Theatre Survey on Volume 1.The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2 offers eight new plays by trans playwrights centering trans characters, trans life, and gender diversity.Curated via an open submission policy, this book brings together dramatic works that feature nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality.Alongside the full scripts, all of which are published here for the first time, this anthology series also includes a wide range of critical essays to inspire deeper understanding of the works, playwrights, and interventions these plays make in the theatrical ecology.Cercle Hermaphroditos by Shualee CookRed Rainbow by Azure D. Osborne-LeeDegenerates by Else WentClose to Home by Sharifa YazmeenThe Bugs by Sloka KrishnanThe Skin of Other Men by Fig LefevreOh, Buddy by Hal CosentinoGender Play, or what you Will co-created by Will Wilhelm and Erin MurrayEdited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller, the plays and companion essays in this anthology explicitly call for expansive approaches to trans characters, themes, and aesthetics in order to promote opportunities for trans artists, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study.

"This anthology is special: a book of trans plays about trans life as it is actually, materially lived in time and space". - Anthony Sansonetti in Theatre Survey on Volume 1.The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2 offers eight new plays by trans playwrights centering trans characters, trans life, and gender diversity.Curated via an open submission policy, this book brings together dramatic works that feature nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality.Alongside the full scripts, all of which are published here for the first time, this anthology series also includes a wide range of critical essays to inspire deeper understanding of the works, playwrights, and interventions these plays make in the theatrical ecology.Cercle Hermaphroditos by Shualee CookRed Rainbow by Azure D. Osborne-LeeDegenerates by Else WentClose to Home by Sharifa YazmeenThe Bugs by Sloka KrishnanThe Skin of Other Men by Fig LefevreOh, Buddy by Hal CosentinoGender Play, or what you Will co-created by Will Wilhelm and Erin MurrayEdited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller, the plays and companion essays in this anthology explicitly call for expansive approaches to trans characters, themes, and aesthetics in order to promote opportunities for trans artists, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study.

Playwrights in Volume 3 agree: “These are the plays we wish we had.” The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This volume focuses on young characters whose ages range from twelve to late twenties. Following the critical and commercial success of the first two volumes, this edited collection supports the expanding landscape of contemporary American trans theatre, which represents a variety of performance modes and genres.These plays address themes such as coming of age, parents and family (found and biological), athletics, dating , and navigating hostile political and social terrains. This third volume also includes short introductory essays that accompany each of the plays to support a deeper understanding of the work.The Interrobangers by M. Sloth LevineMagic Girl!... And Her Demons by Charlotte Snowt4t by Jessica ScottThe Brunch Crowd by Dillon YruegasThe More The Man by Jameson P. MurrayMan and Moon by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-MorrisCaeneus by Samuel AchillesUnfair Advantage by Tyler Rocio EcoñaTides by Eliana RubinEdited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller, 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.