Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre
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Book Description
Whether creating Broadway musicals, experimental dramas, or outrageous comedies, the performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers profiled in this collection have contributed to the representation of LGBTQ lives and culture in a variety of theatrical venues, both within the queer community and across the US theatrical landscape.
Moving from the era of the Stonewall Riots to today, notable scholars in the field bring a wide variety of queer theatre artists into conversation with each other, exploring connections and differences in race, gender, physical ability, national origin, class, generation, aesthetic modes, and political goals, creating a diverse and inclusive study of 50 years of queer theatre.
For readers seeking an introduction to or a deeper understanding of LGBTQ theatre, this volume offers thought-provoking analyses of theatre-makers both celebrated and lesser-known, mainstream and subversive, canonical and new.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout
Reza Abdoh
Joseph Cermatori
Luis Alfaro
Patricia Ybarra
Kate Bornstein
Rye Gentleman
Sharon Bridgforth
T. Chester
Charles Busch
Sean F. Edgecomb
Jane Chambers
Sara Warner
Ellie Covan
Jeff McMahon
Will Davis
Joshua Bastian Cole
Ty Defoe (Giizhig)
Courtney Elkin Mohler
Snehal Desai
Dan Bacalzo
Harvey Fierstein
Jordan Schildcrout
William Finn
Ryan Donovan
The Five Lesbian Brothers: Moe Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron
Lisa Sloan
María Irene Fornés
Gwendolyn Alker
John Glines
Jordan Schildcrout
David Greenspan
Nick Salvato
Jeremy O. Harris
David Román
Rachel Hauck
Stacy Wolf
Chisa Hutchinson
La Donna L. Forsgren
Michael R. Jackson
Aviva Helena Neff
Bill T. Jones
Ariel Nereson
Moisés Kaufman
Bess Rowen
Tony Kushner
Virginia Anderson
Tina Landau
David Román
Nathan Lane
James F. Wilson
Haruna Lee
Jessica Del Vecchio
Joan Lipkin
Gad Guterman
Charles Ludlum
Joe E. Jeffreys
Taylor Mac
Sean F. Edgecomb
Joe Mantello
James F. Wilson
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Terrence McNally
Virginia Anderson
Muriel Miguel
Christy Stanlake
Cherríe Moraga
Alicia Arrizón
Daaimah Mubashshir
Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
The NEA Four: Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller
Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout
Robert O’Hara
Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Monica Palacios
Marci R. McMahon
Miguel Piñero
Karen Jaime
Billy Porter
Eric M. Glover
Clint Ramos
Jimmy A. Noriega
Guillermo Reyes
Jimmy A. Noriega
Edwin Sánchez
Analola Santana
Leigh Silverman
Bess Rowen
Ana María Simo
Virginia Baeta
Split Britches: Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, and Deb Margolin
Benjamin Gillespie
Paula Vogel
Sara Warner
Ron Whyte
Patrick McKelvey
George C. Wolfe
Charles I. Nero
BD Wong
Esther Kim Lee
Chay Yew
Dan Bacalzo
Editor(s)
Biography
Jimmy A. Noriega is Professor of Theatre at the College of Wooster and President of the American Society for Theatre Research. He is the co-editor of Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas (2008) and the founder of Teatro Travieso/Troublemaker Theatre.
Jordan Schildcrout is Professor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase and author of In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays (Routledge, 2020) and Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater (2014).
Reviews
"In this compendium of elegantly crafted essays from leading and emerging voices in queer theater and performance studies, Noriega and Schildcrout have assembled a rich and diverse survey of queer theater makers in the half-century since Stonewall. An informative read and immensely useful resource for scholars and practitioners of the queer stage alike." — Joshua Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University, USA.