Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, The (Methuen Drama Play Collections, 36)

About the Author\nAzure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) is an award-winning Black queer theatre maker from south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He holds an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice (2011) from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama as well as an MA in Women's & Gender Studies (2008) and a BA in English & Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin (2005). Azure is the recipient/winner of Parity Productions' 2018 Annual Commission, Downtown Urban Arts Festival's 2018 Best Play Award, and the 2015 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest. Find out more at: azureosbornelee.com\nTy Defoe (Giizhig) (he/him/they/we) is from the Oneida and Ojibwe Nations of Wisconsin and resides in NYC. Writer, lyricist, scorpio, two-spirit IndigiQueer interdisciplinary shape-shifting artist. Writing publications can be viewed in the Routledge Press, Pitkin Review, Thorny Locust Magazine, and Howl Round, and Ty is a TransLab Fellow. Tydefoe.com or AllMyRelations.Earth\nMJ Kaufman (he/they) is a writer from Oregon currently living in Brooklyn. A few years ago they founded Trans Lab, a fellowship for TGNC Theater Artists with Kit Yan. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, WP Theater, InterAct, Colt Coeur, National Asian American Theater Company and in Russia and Australia among others. They have received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, The New Museum and SPACE on Ryder Farm. They are a graduate of Yale School of Drama and they have also written for Netflix. They like to bike, cook, and play with their dog Milkshake.\nRaphaël Amahl Khouri (he/they) a queer transgender Jordanian documentary playwright and theatremaker living in Berlin. Khouri is the author of several plays, including She He Me (Kosmos Theatre, Vienna 2019), Ich Brauche Meine Ruhe (Politik im Freien Theater Festival, Munich 2018) and No Matter Where I Go (Beirut 2014). Khouri is also a part of the Climate Change Theater Action and their play Oh, How We Loved Our Tuna! was read internationally as part of the initiative. Khouri's work has been published in several U.S. journals, as well as Global Queer Plays (Oberon Books 2018), Skrivena Ljubav (Samizdat 2018) and Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (Palgrave 2016). Khouri's work will also appear in the upcoming International Queer Drama anthology published by Neofelis Verlag in 2020.\nj. chavez (they/them) is a recent graduate from Western Washington University with a BA in Theatre. They are an award winning playwright from the Pacific Northwest. They are the Founder and Artistic Director of Haus of Hazard Theatre Productions in Bellingham, Washington. When they aren't making theatre, j.chavez can be found drinking coffee, hanging out with friends, and performing as drag queen Sue Nami-Meadows. Check them out at: jchaveztheatre.weebly.com\nThe 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.\nThis 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.\nEdited 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.\nSagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
Archer's not out to his family but when his father falls ill he has to move back to his childhood home in central Oregon. At night under the oldest Ponderosa Pine, he meets a stranger who knows the history of the forests and the sadness of losing endangered things. As Archer accepts big cha