Gender Euphoria

Queer (Re)Public Emergent Artist Residency, an Incubator for Creatives of Color

Host Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews Des Bennett of The Theater Offensive about the Queer (Re)Public Emergent Artist Residency. Their conversation covers organizational

Trans Voices Cabaret, Chicago: Our Space to Just Sing

In this episode, Nicolas talks with lead producer for Chicago’s Trans Voices Cabaret lead producer Kidany Camilo about creating equitable opportunities in musical theatre

Exploring Audience Choice and Responsibility in Body of the State

Nicolas talks with Francis Miller about their solo show, Body of the State, which explores access to gender-affirming healthcare and asks the audience to vote on which pa

From the Stage to the Statehouse and Back Again

Nicolas Shannon Savard recounts the evolution of their solo show, Five and a Half Feet of Fearsome, from the original 2018 production to adapting pieces for testimony opp

Vampires, Cowboys, and Sapphic Camp with 11th Hour Productions

Ciara Hannon and Saylor Lake return to talk about 11th Hour Productions’ repertoire of lesbian comedies that play with genre, including Mary Kay Vampires, Gay Cowboys, an

The Queer Art Making the Florida Governor Shake in His Lifted Boots

Host Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews Ciara Hannon and Saylor Lake from Orlando-based queer theatre company, 11th Hour Productions. They discuss queer community at the O

The Trans History Project: A Cohort of Playwrights and Theatres

In part two of their discussion on The Trans History Project, host Nicolas Shannon Savard and Bo Frazier explore how the initiative is building networks for support for t

The Trans History Project: Ten Plays in Development

This episode is an interview with Baltimore Center Stage’s artist-in-residence Bo Frazier on the Trans History Project. The conversation covers what the initiative is doi

LOUD Queer Youth Theatre: Sustaining Youth-Led, Adult-Supported Arts Community

Nicolas continues their conversation with Keyshia Pearl and Roney Jones, digging into LOUD Queer Youth Theatre’s youth-led, adult-supported program model and how the ense

LOUD Queer Youth Theatre: Devising and Political Education in New Orleans

Gender Euphoria: The Podcast returns for season three. Host Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews Miss Keyshia Pearl and Roney Jones of LOUD Queer Youth Theatre about the ens

The Queer-Trans Performance Family Tree is more of a Galaxy

Dr. H. May joins host Nicolas Shannon Savard, who introduces the Queer-Trans Performance Family Tree Project, an interactive, open-access digital exhibit visually connect

Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable With Guests David Silvernail, Janet Werther, Victoria Lafave, Jordan Ealey, and Kelli Crump

What role does white supremacy play in the creation of the queer theatre canon? What power and what responsibility do we—as queer theatremakers, historians, and educators

Making Space for Queer Futurity in Texas

Austin’s pop princess, p1nkstar, shares the story of her evolution from performance artist creating a pop star persona for Instagram to real life pop star to community le

Making Space for Self-Authorship through Audio Description

Host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Dr. H. May, and Dr. Liz Thomson discuss the creative and collaborative possibilities that emerge when audio description (AD) is made an integ

Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy

J.C. Pankratz returns to the podcast to reflect on the first full production of their play Seahorse, directed by Nicolas Shannon Savard, starring Emmett Podgorski. Nicola

Queer-Trans Intimacy: One Foot in the Academy and the Other in the Nightclub

Nicolas Shannon asks Joy Brooke Fairfield and Raja Benz how their intimacy work is informed by queer theory and critical theory. Their conversation bounces between queer

Queer Intimacies in Too-Near Dystopian Futures

Host Nicolas Shannon Savard and playwright Leanna Keyes discuss her play "Doctor Voynich and Her Children". What does it mean to stage trans stories about queer motherhoo

Queer-Trans Intimacy Work: Cracking Gender Open

In the first part of a two-part conversation on queer-trans intimacy direction and choreography, Nicolas talks with Theatrical Intimacy Education faculty members Dr. Joy

Queer Intimacies, Trans Futures, Grief, and Radical Hope in "Seahorse" With Guest J.C. Pankratz

Host, Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews playwright J.C. Pankratz about their play, "Seahorse", a poetic, stream-of-consciousness one-person show about a trans man’s attem

Making Space for Thriving Queer Communities Through Applied Theatre: With Guest Dr. Jesse O’Rear

Host Nicolas Shannon Savard talks with Dr. Jesse O’Rear about applied theatre with LGBTQ students on college campuses. Jesse describes some alternatives to traditional mo