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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***



Wordsmyth Theater Company (Houston, TX) is now accepting one-act or two-act play submissions for our New Play Reading Series for 2023. Six plays will be selected, with one slot reserved for a Houston, TX playwright and another slot reserved for a bilingual play — any language. Each selected playwright will be paired with a director and cast. The play will then be read in front of an audience and the audience will be invited to stay after for a moderated discussion of the play. We do expect the playwright to be in attendance for the reading.

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Eden Theater Company allows for emerging playwrights to develop a new play with ETC artists. The playwright collaborates with Eden’s Artistic collective to better hone the structure, characters and arcs in their playwriting. We hope that the work developed provides an empathetic vantage into different experiences, and states of spiritual being.
We are calling for playwrights to submit an application to participate in our lab series, and are especially seeking New York City playwrights who feel their voice is marginalized, by their age, gender, race, ethnicity or beliefs.

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The Object Movement Puppetry Festival is an annual presentation of new short works developed in residence at The Center at West Park. Curated by Maiko Kikuchi, Rowan Magee, Marcella Murray, and Justin Perkins, Object Movement supports the development of new puppetry and object theater by artists in the NYC metro area, culminating in an annual festival of short performances.

*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***


*** TRANSGENDER THEATER ***

The Civility of Albert Cashier is a folk/Americana musical with book by GLAAD nominated writer Jay Paul Deratany, music by Joe Stevens and Keaton Wooden (lyrics by Stevens, Wooden, and Deratany). Detailing the life of Civil War soldier Albert DJ Cashier, who fought for the Union in over 40 engagements. At the end of his when he retires to the Soldiers and Sailors home in Saunemin, Illinois, a life-long secret is discovered. Albert was born Jennifer Hodgers.

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https://www.albertcashierthemusical.com/about


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Two decades before Neil Patrick Harris dared to don a golden pair of go-go boots to portray the “internationally ignored song stylist” know as Hedwig Schmidt, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask were perfecting the act on the New York City drag scene. In the wake of Hedwig and the Angry Inch‘s latest theatrical incarnation — which just racked up eight Tony nominations — we caught up with several of the creative minds who have contributed to Hedwig’s past, present, and future to create an (appropriately) oral history.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/gender-bender-an-oral-history-of-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-185066/


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AS ONE is a chamber opera in which two voices—Hannah after and Hannah before—share the part of a sole transgender protagonist. Fifteen songs comprise the three-part narrative; with empathy and humor, they trace Hannah’s experiences from her youth in a small town to her college years—and finally traveling alone to a different country, where she realizes some truths about herself.

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https://www.asoneopera.com/history


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Written by sisters Nicola and Stacey Bland, Call Me Vicky is a debut play based entirely on a true story. This hard-hitting, comic production charts Vicky’s transition from male to female in a time that was far less understanding than the world we live in today.
It’s 1980 in Elephant and Castle. Martin and best friend Debbie are getting ready for another night out at Martin’s favourite night spot, The Golden Girl – one of Soho’s premier drag clubs. However, tonight is not a regular night out. Tonight is the night that will change Martin’s life forever.

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https://thelivereview.co.uk/call-me-vicky-review-pleasance-theatre/


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Karen Black’s performance as Joanne in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) is the only trans performance by a cisgender person that I love with no reservations. Her work is so precise and hyper-specific that I still wonder to this day how she got to a place that feels so naturalistic in its understanding of transness. Karen Black was not a trans woman, and her work prior to this role was usually more acidic with an outward comfort in playing proud women who were sidekicks for men and their problems like Jack Nicholson’s Bobby Dupea in Five Easy Pieces (1970) or her last act arrival in Easy Rider (1969). but with this performance she is dominant, commanding and whole. It is the finest of her career.

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean was a stage play before Altman adapted it into a one-set film with a gimmicked mirror to elucidate the shift between past and present. In this movie a gang of women who were in a club called “The Disciples of James Dean” are reuniting twenty years after the death of the actor in their small town of Woolworth, Texas. But there is something the other women don’t know, and it’s that their old friend Joe (Mark Patton, who is great here) is now going by Joanne, and her transformation acts like a lightning bolt of passed time for all these women.

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http://curtsiesandhandgrenades.com/index.php/2021/05/24/the-performances-i-love-karen-black-in-come-back-to-the-five-and-dime-jimmy-dean-jimmy-dean/


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Mark Howard moves away from his childhood home to a rural, upstate town in search of a new type of family. When he picks up a stockroom position at the town’s local orchard, he’s met with toxic masculinity and comes to terms with his newfound male privilege. And during his first day, he befriends Dani Thompson, a Black queer woman who’s opening her own gay bar. Over time, these two very regular people form and find chosen family in one another and their community.

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https://www.regularsmusical.com/about


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The world premiere of a stage musical adaptation of the groundbreaking Amazon series “Transparent” will highlight the 2022-23 season of Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, the company announced Thursday.

The production, “A Transparent Musical,” features characters from the original series about a sexagenarian parent in a Jewish Los Angeles family who comes out as a transgender woman. The new musical comedy is billed as “a story of self-discovery, acceptance and celebration.” It will have its world premiere in May at the Mark Taper Forum.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/theater/transparent-musical-center-theater-group.html

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