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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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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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Sound Design Fieldtrip
Justin, James, and I took a field trip to the Lake Erie Nature Preserve to record some raw audio for the sound cues in the show.
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Behind-the-Scenes Audio Tour
Inspired by the workshop on audio description for performance I took with Liz Thomson this fall and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s pre-show touch tours, I’ve created a behind-the-scenes audio tour for our production of Seahorse. In it, I provide in-depth audio description of the venue, set, props, and costumes and a few of the stories…
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Stream Seahorse on demand, May 10-31, 2023
A recording of the performance will be available to stream on demand May 10-31, 2023. General admission tickets are free or by a pay-what-you-will donation. All proceeds will go to volunteer-led, not-for-profit organizations that serve northeast Ohio’s transgender community. Your donation will support the work of: Register here to get tickets and access the show…
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Production Photos
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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…