The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays

Angela Farr Schiller (she/her) is the Director of Arts Education at the two time Southeastern Emmy Award winning ArtsBridge Foundation for the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, in Atlanta, GA. She researches the intersections between race and performance. Formerly serving as an Assistant Professor, the Resident Dramaturg, and the Coordinator of Undergraduate Research for the Department of Theatre & Performance Studies at Kennesaw State University. Angela also works as a Dramaturg-In-Residence with Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights (WTP), the leading new play development organization in the Southeast, with a focus on new play development. https://www.angelaschiller.com Leanna Keyes (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate theater artist with a primary focus on queer and trans people, aiming to authentically portray the full complexities of queer life (past, present, and future). She was a playwright in residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis and has been commissioned by Valiant Theatre in Chicago. Her plays have been performed and studied at universities around the United States, including at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries.” Get in touch: leannakeyes.com Lindsey Mantoan (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Resident Dramaturg at Linfield College. She researches contemporary US character, both on the national and individual level. She is the author of War as Performance: Conflict in Iraq and Political Theatricality (Palgrave 2018) and co-editor with Sara Brady of Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death, and Performance in HBO’s Game of Thrones (McFarland 2018) and Performance in a Militarized Culture (Routledge 2017). In 2019, she won Linfield's Allen and Pat Kelley Faculty Scholar Award, and in 2020, she won the Mid-America Theatre Conference's Robert A. Shanke Award for Theatre Research. She is an occasional contributor to CNN.com.

1. Introduction: “In a Trans Time and Space” by Angela, Leanna, and Lindsey
Part One: Disembodied Articulations
2. Introduction to Sagittarius Ponderosa: Waiting, Watching, and Witnessing as Queer Praxis in Sagittarius Ponderosa by Jesse O’Rear
3. Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
4. Introduction to The Betterment Society: Generations of Language: Mashuq Mushtaq Deen in Conversation with Stephanie Hsu by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen and Stephanie Hsu
5. The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
6. Introduction to how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma): how to tell time (when you are trans and processing trauma) by Finn Lefevre
7. how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma) by j. chavez
Part Two: Fraught Spaces
8. Introduction to She He Me: Witnessing the Revolutionary Mundane: Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s Queer Documentary Theatre by Melory Mirashrafi
9. She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri
10. Introduction to The Devils Between Us: “Challenging Every Memory”: Manifesting Futurity in The Devils Between Us by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel and Ali-Reza Mirsajadi
11. The Devils Between Usby Sharifa Yasmin
Part Three: Familiar/Familial
12. Introduction to Doctor Voynich and Her Children: Cruising Dystopia by Jaclyn Pryor
13. Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes
14. Introduction to Firebird Tattoo: Transcending Gender to ‘Soar Above the Earth’ in Ty Defoe’s Firebird Tattoo by Courtney Mohler
15. Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe
16. Introduction to Crooked Parts: All In and Out of the Family: A Critical Introduction to Azure Osborne-Lee’s Crooked Parts by Marquis Bey
17. Crooked Parts by Azure D. Osborne-Lee