Gender Euphoria

By Nicolas Savard, HowlRound Theatre CommonsArts Performing Arts

Gender Euphoria episodes

August 04 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 “harvest partnerships,” emergent strategy, queer liberatory aesthetics, and decolonizing the producer-artist relationship.
56 min
July 28 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, showcasing outstanding trans and nonbinary musical talent, and centering joy.
38 min
June 30 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 path the story takes. They discuss how audiences have responded to and taken up that responsibility as the show has evolved.
56 min
June 23 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 opposing anti-trans legislation in Ohio to remounting the show in 2025 with a renewed focus on “taking our stories back.”
33 min
June 03 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, and An Adele Horror Story. Nicolas provides theoretical and historical framing on camp aesthetics in gay and lesbian theatre.
41 min
May 26 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 Orlando Fringe and using campy comedy as a mode of resistance in the face of state-level backlash to LGBTQ art in Florida.
43 min
May 19 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 the cohort of playwrights and collaborating with theatres across the US to produce trans stories.
37 min
May 19 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 doing to create counter-narratives in a political moment defined by trans erasure, plus a taste of the first five plays in development.
35 min
May 05 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 ensemble provides long-term community, and artistic and professional development for Black and indigenous trans and queer youth.
38 min
April 28 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 ensemble’s programming, devising practices, and political education with Black and Indigenous trans and queer youth in New Orleans.
43 min

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Hosted by Nicolas Shannon Savard, Gender Euphoria: The Podcast is a series of conversations between trans and queer theatre artists. The show amplifies the voices of trans and queer performers,…