Performing Fictional Identity at LMDA 2018: Crossing Borders—Fri 22 June 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2018-06-22

Performing Fictional Identity: Theatre and the Politics of Sex and Gender
8:45 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 9:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. MDT (Edmonton) / 10:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. EDT (Toronto)

Moderator : Sky Gilbert (Poet, novelist, actor, playwright, filmmaker, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire, co-founder and founding artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, & Professor of creative writing, sexuality, and Shakespeare at the School of English and Theatre Studies in Guelph)

Panelists: Mel Hague (Dramaturg at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), Nick Green, (Dora and Sterling Award winning Playwright), Gein Wong, @geinwong (Artistic Director of Eventual Ashes, 2018 Dora Award Review Working Group, & Board of Directors for the Toronto Arts Council)

This panel will focus on issues of sexual and gender identity in theatre. Are our identities in real life, real, or imagined? In theatre, who has the right to tell what stories, and who has the right to play whom? What role can performance play in helping us examine our daily sexual and gender identities? Is there such a thing as non-binary (i.e. gender neutral) casting? Should there be? If sexual identity and gender identity are different, should they — or can they — ever be connected? As devised plays increasingly feature actors playing ‘themselves,’ are their onstage identities real? And what role does race play in all this? And privilege?

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas present their 2018 Conference Crossing Borders livestreaming from Toronto, Canada on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 21 June to Saturday 23 June 2018.

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