"Re-Imagining Rocky Horror: Have We Learned Anything?
"Re-Imagining Rocky Horror: Have We Learned Anything?02nov9:30 pm9:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
Event Details
A Conversation with Co-Directors Jo Michael Rezes and Lee Mikeska Gardner, and Gender Consultant Shira Helena Gitlin.” Looking back at this reimagining of Rocky Horror, we seek to ask how this
Event Details
A Conversation with Co-Directors Jo Michael Rezes and Lee Mikeska Gardner, and Gender Consultant Shira Helena Gitlin.”
Looking back at this reimagining of Rocky Horror, we seek to ask how this production is different from everything prior to it. In putting this production up, have we learned anything through this show especially in relation to the history of Rocky as a whole? And where do we go from here?
Speakers for this event
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Jo Michael Rezes
Jo Michael Rezes
JO MICHAEL REZES, they/them (Director) is a nonbinary theatremaker and transmedia artist based in Greater Boston dedicated to the development of new, queer works which feature transgender collaborators and fabulously grotesque aesthetics. Acting credits: TheRocky Horror Show (Entropy Theatre); Nosferatu, The Vampyr (Sparkhaven Theatre); The Inheritance (SpeakEasy Stage Co. — Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Ensemble); Things I Know to Be True (Great Barrington Public Theater — Berkshire Theater Critics Award Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actor; BroadwayWorld Award, Honorable Mention). Directing: Trans [Plays] of Remembrance (HowlRound.TV); Cloud 9 (AD, The Nora – Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Direction); Melancholy Play (Vassar College); The Interrobangers(Tufts University). Jo instructs gender and performance courses across the country (Yale Dramatic Association, Somerville Arts for Youth, UMass Law, The Theater Offensive)! Their TEDTalk, A Playful Exploration of Gender Performance, is available online. Jo is developing a monograph called Fractals: Nonbinary Acting Methods and facilitates workshops on the subject. Rezes dedicates themself to inclusive performance pedagogy beyond binary constructions and embraces queer aesthetics, sensation, and experience over final product. A proud Vassar College alum (BA, English & Drama) and Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre & Performance at Tufts University. Current academic appointments: Lecturer in Theatre at Boston College, Affiliate Faculty at Emerson College, and Teaching Assistant/Co-facilitator at Harvard University.
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Lee Mikeska Gardner
Lee Mikeska Gardner
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Shira Helena Gitlin
Shira Helena Gitlin
Shira Helena Gitlin, they/them (Gender Consultant/Intimacy Director) is a trans nonbinary director, gender consultant, intimacy director, and musical theatre enthusiast. As a gender consultant, Shira has held Transgender Inclusion workshops for theatres, universities, and organizations across the US and Canada. They have worked in various artistic capacities for New Repertory Theatre, Moonbox Productions, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Flat Earth Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and more. Shira is a member of the Gender Explosion Initiative, a graduate of the Arden Professional Apprentice Class 26, an alumni of Directors Lab North in Toronto, Canada and previously served as an Artistic Fellow at SpeakEasy Stage Company. They have a BA from Hampshire College in directing with an emphasis on musical theatre studies. For more information, please visit shirahelenagitlin.com.