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RESEARCH & TEACHING
TEDxTufts (2020)
VIEWS: 600,000+
MONOGRAPH-in-PROCESS
Tastes Like AIDS: Sweet Aesthetics, Bitter Humor, and Viral Performances of HIV/AIDS
BOOKS-in-DEVELOPMENT
Misrepresentation of a Cappuccino Soufflé (seeking representation)
Fractals: Nonbinary Acting Methods (querying publishers)
Sick Kitchen: Queer Recipes for the Chronically Ill (and Online) (seeking representation)
PLAYS-in-PROCESS
The Gospel According to Susan: Confessions of a Transgender Serial Killer
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Central Square Theater (Workshop; July 2025)
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FRINGEPVD (Premiere; July 2025)
TENDER; loving sickly queers with hunger
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Queer Food Conference (Reading; May 2026)
Works in
Process
Selected
Publications
"Review of Time Slips: Queer Temporalities Contemporary Performance and the Hole of History by Jac Pryor"
Texas Theatre Journal, vol. 17, Theatre in Crisis (2020)
BOOK REVIEWS
"Jo Michael Rezes’s "Trans Inclusion, Gender Expansion, and the New Queer Theatre” is the volume’s strongest contribution...Rezes examines structural shifts across Broadway, educational theatre, and publishing, addressing trans visibility without flattening institutional contradiction. The essay’s attention to recent milestones...positions trans theatre not as emergent novelty but as an evolving field with archival futures."
Eric Jorgensen, Theater Journal, vol. 78, no.1 (2026)
"Queer Shades of Black and White," exhibit interpretation for On Christopher Street: Transgender Portraits by Mark Seliger
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2024)
PUBLIC WRITING / SPEECHES
"Bloody Cream from Dracula's Kiss
(Cherry Injected Cadbury Creme Eggs
and a Pepsi Cocktail)"
Cook Out! The Queer Food Conference Community Cookbook, ed. Alex D. Ketchum & Megan J. Elias (2024)
Director's Note for The Rocky Horror Show
Central Square Theater (2023)
"Seventies Cinderella: Clocking [in and out of] The Rocky Horror Show with Angela Bruce"
Creating in Crisis, vol. 1,
Polari Press (2021)
Director's Note for The Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine
Tufts University, Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (2022)
"The “AIDS Play” in Fragments: Pieces of a Crisis from Then, Now, and Beyond," Dramaturgy Note (and Interview) for FRAGMENTS by Jim Petosa
Great Barrington Public Theater (2026)
Dramaturgy Note for KAYFABE by Madison Mondeaux
Fresh Ink Theatre (2026)
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"Time to Think," Student Address, Doctoral Hooding Ceremony
Tufts University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2026)
"HIV/AIDS & Nourishing Wellbeing: Sharing Recipes (and Jokes) to Feel Better," (with Isabel Barbosa & Elena Kalodner-Martin)
Queers at the Table ed. Alex D. Ketchum & Megan J. Elias (Oct. 2026), LAMBDA Literary Award, Anthology (finalist)
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Chapter Nine: Trans Inclusion,
Gender Expansion, and the New Queer Theatre"
Milestones in Queer US Theatre,
Routledge (July 2025)
"Notes on Playing (with Monsters) in the Fog: Mysteries of Queer Adolescence in M Sloth Levine's The Interrobangers"
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays (vol. 3), eds. Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, Angela Farr Schiller (2026)
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"The Bittersweet Look(s) of AIDS: Consuming the Ironic Waste of HIV/AIDS Imagery (and Other Butts of the Joke) in Diseased Pariah News"
Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Health and Humor, eds. Cowley, Slobogin, and Snow, Manchester University Press
(Sept. 2026)
Courses &
Curricula
Gender Inclusive Pedagogy
Emerson College (SU 23, F 24)
Gender Studies / Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Introduction to Acting
Tufts University (F 19—25), 7 Sections
Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies
Introduction to Theatre: Play is the Thing
Boston College (F 22—S 25), 7 Sections
Theatre Department, MCAS
Devised Theatre: Creativity in Crisis
Tufts University (S 21) / Emerson (F 25)
Performance / Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Disability Justice in Theatre Education
Emerson College (F 26)
Disability Studies / Critical University Studies
Camp: Humor, Taste, & Cult-Classics
Tufts ExCollege (F 21, F 22, F 24)
Gender Studies / Film and Media Studies
Stanislavsky Method,
Yale Dramatic Association
Spring 2021 Acting Intensive for High School
Mentoring thesis student on horror & queer temporality on stage.
Junior Tutorial, Harvard College Dept. of Theatre, Dance and Media.
LGBTQ+ Theatre and Performance
Tufts University (SP 25, SP 26)
Theatre, Dance, & Performance / WGSS
CONTACT
Looking for private workshops on Nonbinary Acting Methods
for your school or theater?
Looking for an article on food, disability, and/or queer performance?
Looking for a speaker on gender performance or identity?
Contact me below and let's get cooking!
(I am actively seeking representation with literary & entertainment agencies.)
