Teacakes and Tarot with Will Wilhelm and Jéhan Òsanyìn on Thursday 20 May 2021
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2021-05-21

Island Shakespeare Festival presented Teacakes and Tarot with Will Wilhelm and and Jéhan Òsanyìn livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 20 May 2021 at 6:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 8:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 9:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

Teacakes & Tarot with Will Wilhelm is one part cocktail party and one part slumber party! In each episode, TGNC actor and host Will Wilhelm interviews a queer theatre maker for a chat about art, life in the industry, and their connections with Shakespeare. Together, Will and their artistic crush conjure pathways to creating more inclusive and queer-friendly new work and approaches to the classics. After a lovely interview, Will offers each guest a tarot and sonnet reading creating a sensationally live yet intimate conclusion to their shared time. Teacakes & Tarot with Will Wilhelm offers insight, inspiration, and a little incidental education in all things queer, classic, and cosmic.

Since its first episodes in September 2020, audiences have called Teacakes & Tarot with Will Wilhelm “a much needed TRANSfusion [in American Theatre]” and “the BEST part of my 2020.” Guests can watch the livestream or register at the link below to participate in the action via Zoom.

Teacakes & Tarot with Will Wilhelm was co-created by Erin Murray and is presented by the Island Shakespeare Festival as a part of the Shakespeare Playground Series, which presents digital programming that incorporates creative intersections with Shakespeare.

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Jéhan Òsanyìn (they/them) is a multilingual and biliterate somatic abolitionist and futurist facilitator who is also AEA actor and Gregory Award nominated playwright living in Seattle, WA. They hold a BA in Theatre Arts from Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts. Many years ago they had the pleasure of studying theatre in twelve countries with Semester at Sea. In 2017 Jéhan founded Earthseed, an experimental experiential art studio where studio research and performance explores the stories our bodies tell with and without our consent. Earthseed offers individual coaching, workshops, and lots of opportunities to investigate your racialized identity development through experiential education. For 3 months at the end of 2019 Jéhan was an Artist-in-Residence at Aktuelle Architektur der Kultur | Centro Negra, Spain. They deepened their research on using theatre and cultural somatics to disrupt intergenerational trauma.


Will Wilhelm (they/them) is host of Teacakes & Tarot and co-creator and performer of Gender Play. A Michigan native, Will is based in Chicago, IL, where they earned their BA in Theatre from Northwestern University before becoming the first non-binary company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. There, they reimaged genderqueer characters in As You Like It, MacBeth, and Bill Rauch's Oklahoma! Other notable projects include creating the role of Person in Charge in the Midwest Premiere of Straight White Men, written and directed by Young Jean Lee, at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; playing Angel in Metropolis Performing Arts Center's production of Rent, for which they received the 2016 BroadwayWorld Chicago Award for Best Actor in a Musical; and performing full texts bilingually in Spanish and English. Additional theatre affiliations include Victory Gardens Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and About Face Theatre Company. In 2020, Will wrote “Gender is Performance” for Howlround and was featured in the Chicago Tribune. Will is represented by Gray Talent Group.
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