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New Episode: Defusing Queerphobia in the Classroom
In this episode, university arts educators share practical strategies for defusing homophobia and transphobia in the classroom while accounting for our increasingly polarized political realities across the U.S. Rather than combatting or fighting queerphobia, they present approaches they have used to keep students engaged in dialogue and promote inclusive, respectful classroom culture.
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Two-Part Episode: Making Monsters
Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard is joined by Dr. Katya Vrtis and Kairos Looney to unpack the contemporary wave of anti-trans politics. And to talk about monsters. Bringing together performance studies with queer-/crip and critical race theories, the conversation serves as a space to theorize collaboratively, to process, to strategize modes of resistance.
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Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable Part 3: Where the Past Touches the Present
This episode is part 3 of the Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable series of conversations with theatre historians, artists, and educators.Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: What discoveries arise through queer archival strategies focused on repair? What technologies or strategies do we use to confront…
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Roundtable Part 2: Queer Failure, Queer Possibility
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: How have the constraints of existing archives caused (invited? necessitated?) what Jack Halberstam calls “queer failure”? Where do we see queer possibility in the archive? Their conversation offers a range of queer interventions for scholars and students of performance and history…
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New Episode. Queer Praxis Roundtable, Pt. 1: Disrupting White Supremacy in Theatre History
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard invites queer theatre artist-educator-historians Janet Werther, Kelli Crump, Jordan Ealy, Victoria Lafave to dig into how we bring a queer eye to history in the classroom, what power and responsibility we have as queer artist-educators to disrupt white supremacy in the archive and our institutions and strategies for building solidarity.
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Conference panel-turned-podcast. Pedagogy in Process.
How do we queer the archive? Or the conference? How do we bend the format to fit people in the session rather than fitting ourselves into traditional formats and structures? One response to that was to turn our conference panel into a podcast.
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Podcast Episode: The Queer-Trans Family Tree is more of a Galaxy
For this episode, I’ve invited Dr. H. May back to the podcast to tell them about the digital exhibit I’ve been researching and building for the past year, the Queer-Trans Performance Family Tree Project. In my attempts to document or piece together trans artistic communities and histories, I keep finding myself returning to questions of queer intimacy and…
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Podcast Episode: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy
Just released the latest episode of Gender Euphoria, the Podcast with HowlRound Theatre Commons! Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy With Guests J.C. Pankratz and Emmett Podgorski This episode is a series of reflective conversations with playwright J.C. Pankratz and actor Emmett Podgorski on our production process for JC’s new play Seahorse. The…
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SEAHORSE, Documenting the process: A different approach to auditions
In lieu of a traditional audition for this production, I invited interested performers to an “open rehearsal.” I did this for a couple of reasons: 1. The way we typically do auditions in the theatre–you walk into a room after waiting in line for an hour and have 90 seconds to prove yourself to a…
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SEAHORSE Documenting the process: Project Overview
What is this project? Seahorse is a one-act play written by JC Pankratz (they/them). It was awarded Synecdoche Works Theatre’s fellowship for Works in Heightened Language in 2021. In March of 2022, after hearing my conversations with trans theatre artists on Gender Euphoria, the Podcast, the artistic director at Synecdoche Works asked me to interview…