Episodes

  • Queer (Re)Public Emergent Artist Residency, an Incubator for Creatives of Color

    Queer (Re)Public Emergent Artist Residency, an Incubator for Creatives of Color
    Aug 4 2026
    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.
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    56 mins
  • Trans Voices Cabaret, Chicago: Our Space to Just Sing

    Trans Voices Cabaret, Chicago: Our Space to Just Sing
    Jul 28 2026
    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.
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    38 mins
  • Exploring Audience Choice and Responsibility in Body of the State

    Exploring Audience Choice and Responsibility in Body of the State
    Jun 30 2026
    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.
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    55 mins
  • From the Stage to the Statehouse and Back Again

    From the Stage to the Statehouse and Back Again
    Jun 23 2026
    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.”
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    33 mins
  • Vampires, Cowboys, and Sapphic Camp with 11th Hour Productions

    Vampires, Cowboys, and Sapphic Camp with 11th Hour Productions
    Jun 3 2026
    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.
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    41 mins
  • The Queer Art Making the Florida Governor Shake in His Lifted Boots

    The Queer Art Making the Florida Governor Shake in His Lifted Boots
    May 26 2026
    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.
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    42 mins
  • The Trans History Project: A Cohort of Playwrights and Theatres

    The Trans History Project: A Cohort of Playwrights and Theatres
    May 19 2026
    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.
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    37 mins
  • The Trans History Project: Ten Plays in Development

    The Trans History Project: Ten Plays in Development
    May 19 2026
    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.
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    34 mins