Overview

Playwrights in Volume 3 agree: “These are the plays we wish we had.” The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This volume focuses on young characters whose ages range from twelve to late twenties. Following the critical and commercial success of the first two volumes, this edited collection supports the expanding landscape of contemporary American trans theatre, which represents a variety of performance modes and genres. These plays address themes such as coming of age, parents and family (found and biological), athletics, dating , and navigating hostile political and social terrains. This third volume also includes short introductory essays that accompany each of the plays to support a deeper understanding of the work. The Interrobangers by M. Sloth Levine Magic Girl!... And Her Demons by Charlotte Snow t4t by Jessica Scott The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas The More The Man by Jameson P. Murray Man and Moon by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris Caeneus by Samuel Achilles Unfair Advantage by Tyler Rocio Ecoña Tides by Eliana Rubin Edited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller, 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.

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Author:   she/her Leanna Keyes ,  Lindsey Mantoan (Linfield College, USA) ,  Angela Farr Schiller (Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9781350514867

ISBN 10:   1350514861
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   14 May 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Licensing Play Synopses Biographies Introduction by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller Part 1: Exploring the Dark Places ""Notes on Playing (with Monsters) in the Fog: Mysteries of Queer Adolescence in M Sloth Levine’s The Interrobangers"" by Jo Michael Rezes The Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine “Faustian Utopia: Jouissance and Cruel Optimism in Charlotte Snow’s Magic Girl” by kt shorb Magic Girl!...and Her Demons by Charlotte Snow “Bickering with the Bad and Banal: Staging t4t Interregnums” by Ryan Adelsheim t4t by Jess Scott Part 2: Dance Break “Nations Made of Stars: An Introduction to The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas” by Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas ""’I was lucky I wasn't born a man’: New Orleans Second Line Parades and Transitions in The More the Man” by Eric M. Glover The More the Man by Jameson P. Murray “Man, Moon, and the Lorde” by Stephanie Hsu Man and Moon by Siena Marilyn Part 3: Waves and Water “(Extra)ordinary Heroics in Samuel Achilles Edwards’ Staging of Trans Antiquity” by Caitlin A. Kane Caeneus by Samuel Achilles “The ‘Ruhls’ of Play: Mythical and Real Currents in Tyler Rocio Ecoña’s Unfair Advantage” by Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz Unfair Advantage by Tyler Rocio Ecoña “What We Leave & What We Carry in Eliana Rubin’s Tides” by Fig Lefevre Tides by Eliana Rubin

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Leanna Keyes is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist and producer with a primary focus on queer and trans people. She aims to authentically portray the full complexities of queer life (past, present, and future). Lindsey Mantoan is the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Theatre Arts and an Associate Professor at Linfield University. Her current research focuses on contemporary musical theater. She is the author or co-editor of seven books, an intimacy director, a director, and a dramaturg. Angela Farr Schiller is an Emmy® Award–winning director, a multiple award-winning dramaturg, scholar, and professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Additionally, Angela works as a Dramaturg-in-Residence with the Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights (WTP), the leading new play development organization in the Southeast, United States.

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