tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41460292024-03-12T21:37:15.914-04:00Underground Transitthe best kept secret in performanceScott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-64278065522752620952012-08-25T12:09:00.000-04:002012-08-25T12:10:20.232-04:00Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">"Like some sexually ambiguous Scheherazade, ... Schofield comes across more as a loveable neighborhood kid bursting with energy and insight than an agenda-waving political zealot. <b>Bottom line: [Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps is] one of the year’s most essential theater experiences.</b>" - Wendell Brock, <i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i></span></div>
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In <b>"Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps,"</b> Scott Turner Schofield employs multimedia storytelling, silk fabric acrobatics, and audience participation to reveal just a few of the 127 stories that compose the life of a guy who just happens to have been born a girl. <br />
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Irreverent and dynamic, graceful and playful, this one-person show engages the deep questions and the locker room jokes about what it means to become a man. <b>Moving beyond the transgender narrative that focuses on the experience of transition,</b> Schofield's stories explore the drama and hilarity of living a new life in the "opposite" gender.</span></div>
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<b>"I changed my sex. <i>Now</i> what?"</b></div>
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The <b>aerial dance </b>component of the show brings a <b>dynamism</b> that <b>pushes the boundaries of traditional storytelling solo performance.</b> Suspended at center stage by 20' length of blood red fabric, Schofield dances, climbs, hides, and seeks in a delicate choreography of brute strength and beautiful flexibility. The show's <b>Choose Your Own Adventure format </b>invites viewers to decide--live--which stories they will hear during each performance. Of course, you can't have all 127 stories in one night, and you never know what a performance artist might reveal.... <br />
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Maybe it's the (necessary and fun) nudity, maybe it's the intimacy of the storytelling, or maybe it's the collaborative, improvisational style that keeps audiences returning to experience untold stories and the fresh interplay created every single night. Since its Seattle debut in October 2007, "Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps" has <b>sold out every engagement</b>, in venues of 50 to 300, from Miami to Anchorage and unexpected markets in between.<br />
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<b>Company</b></div>
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<span class="s1">2 Company Members (Artist and Technical Director)<br />
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-41723511290883105832012-08-25T12:01:00.000-04:002012-08-25T12:01:12.710-04:00Two Truths and a Lie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><b><i><br />Two Truths and a Lie</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>a memoir written & performed<br />
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<span class="s1">ISBN-10: 0-9785973-2-X</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i><b>Two Truths and a Lie</b></i> is a memoir passing as three solo plays written and performed by Scott Turner Schofield. From inside his young life on the Homecoming Court and Debutante Ball circuit (in a dress), armed with only a decoder ring and a gifted tongue, Schofield comes out with truly unbelievable stories of a body in search of an identity. By turns slapstick and slap-to-the-face, this drama invites audiences and readers to explore gender, sex, sexuality, and self in their own first person.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>2009 American Library Association Rainbow List</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>2008 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Drama and Transgender Categories</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">"I am completely mad for Scott Turner Schofield. He is a thrilling, compelling, and downright charming writer and performance artist. And handsome. Did I mention handsome? And smart. Buy this book. Read it." - <b>Kate Bornstein</b>, author of </span><span class="s2"><i>Hello, Cruel World</i></span></div>
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<span class="s2">"A provocative and compelling storyteller, Turner helps us to look at gender in a new way, face our prejudices, and have fun while doing it." - <b>Amy Ray</b>, Indigo Girls</span></div>
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"Scott Turner Schofield's storytelling is so honest, his approach so unique, his style so unselfconscious and disarming, that his shows will have you wrapped around his pinkie in no time. I've seen this Southern gent win over the most jaded of New York theater audiences with one wry smile and a perfectly placed raised eyebrow. He's the real thing - and nothing less than a national treasure." - <b>T Cooper</b>, bestselling author of </span><span class="s2"><i>Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes</i></span><span class="s1"> and </span><span class="s2"><i>Some of the Parts</i></span></div>
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"A bright, sharp and an important new performer in this country." - <b>Tim Miller</b>, Performance Artist</span></div>
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"A generous, tender, and brilliant walk through one man's becoming, Two Truths and a Lie is full of the kind of sweet and bold words that don't come along very often. All of us who've wished we could freeze time and savor the language of Turner's performance work may now rejoice." - <b>S. Bear Bergman</b>, author of </span><span class="s2"><i>Butch Is a Noun</i></span><span class="s1"> and </span><span class="s2"><i>The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You</i></span></div>
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<span class="s2">This is not a stodgy reading. An armchair with a small table by the side is preferred over a lectern. </span></div>
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General wash with ability to dim for projections</div>
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1 Projector with cable of sufficient length to hook up to Apple laptop on stage.</div>
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1 Projector screen or blank wall</div>
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-58176744146363956722012-08-24T20:39:00.004-04:002012-08-24T21:03:20.270-04:00Page to Stage Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Making Performance for Social Change</span></div>
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-14977559921642064302012-08-24T20:38:00.001-04:002012-08-24T21:01:36.120-04:00Trans 101 Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><i>In addition to </i><b><i>consistently sold-out performances,</i></b><i> Scott Turner Schofield’s residencies include </i><b><i>lectures</i></b><i>, and </i><b><i>workshops with youth</i></b><i> and administrators in college, municipal, and corporate settings. This combination of advocacy and art has significantly changed non-discrimination policies nationwide. </i></span></div>
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Queer Theory in Practice</span></div>
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-2837126853777412612012-08-24T20:04:00.000-04:002012-08-24T20:59:09.545-04:00Strange Bedfellows<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-26021223156243417562012-08-24T20:02:00.003-04:002012-08-24T20:56:14.355-04:00Transgender Inclusion Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">The Trans-Community Forum privileges storytelling over rhetoric, everyday issues over political and philosophical questions of identity. Participants are invited to tell short stories about their lives as transgender people, friends, family, lovers, allies, onlookers and bystanders to transgender communities.</span></div>
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-82328831099815235152012-08-24T20:00:00.000-04:002012-08-24T20:51:07.365-04:00Gender Self Esteem Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-73257830394213236722012-08-24T19:51:00.000-04:002012-08-24T19:51:28.559-04:00About Scott Turner Schofield<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"><b>Scott Turner Schofield </b>is a man who was a woman, a lesbian turned straight guy who is usually taken for a gay teenager. A former debutante and homecoming queen coming out in the Deep South, the work and the life on which it is based contain hilarious contradictions bordered with the possibility of terrifying consequences. Key to the work is a keen awareness of culture and self that maintains an accessible perspective even within the most particular of circumstances.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> As Kt Kilborn, Schofield interned for lesbian performance artists Holly Hughes and Carmelita Tropicana, who directly influenced her early work. She then spent two years working for Amy Ray (of the Indigo Girls) at Daemon Records, where she learned a blend of art and activism that served as her model for making a community impact as a touring performer.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> Kilborn's social, medical, and legal transition to Scott Turner Schofield began in 2004, when he simultaneously became a full-time performance artist. Schofield tours year-round, working on college campuses as often as at theatrical institutions. In addition to consistently sold-out performances, his residencies include lectures, workshops with youth (including fraternities and sororities) and administrators in college, municipal, and corporate settings. This combination of advocacy and art has significantly changed non-discrimination policies nationwide.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> Schofield is the recipient of several awards for his performance work, among them a "Fruitie" for Off-Broadway Performance; a 2007 Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship in Acting; and a Creation Fund Commission from the National Performance Network for "Becoming a Man...," supported by The (Alpert Award Winning) Pat Graney Company (Seattle), DiverseWorks (Houston) and 7 Stages (Atlanta). </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"><u> Two Truths and a Lie</u> is a collection of three autobiographical solo performances which have toured nationally to critical acclaim: "Underground Transit" (2001), "Debutante Balls" (2004) and "Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps" (2007). The book features a foreword by noted feminist scholar Judith (Jack) Halberstam. It was a finalist for 2 Lambda Literary Awards in 2008, and was included on the American Library Association's Rainbow List in 2009.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> In addition to touring his solo work, Schofield acts and writes for theater and film.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> Interview requests can be made at booktransperformance@gmail.com. </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><b><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;">Honors & Awards</span></u></b><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;">2012 - Change Agent Award from Emory University office LGBT Life</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;">2009 - Two Truths and a Lie Finalist in Drama and Transgender Categories for Lambda Literary Awards</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2009 - Two Truths and a Lie included on American Library Association's Rainbow List</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2008 - Named "Best Trans Activist" by Southern Voice Readers</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2008 - Named "Best Local Author" by Atlanta's Creative Loafing Readers</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2008 - First FTM Grand Marshal of the Atlanta Pride Parade</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2008 - "Fruitie" Award for Off Broadway Performance at the Fresh Fruit Festival </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2007 - Princess Grace Foundation Gant Gaither Fellowship in Acting</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2007 - Triple-Commission from the National Performance Network Creation Fund</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2006 - Named a "Young Trans Hero" by The Advocate </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2004 - Tanne Foundation Award for Commitment to Artistic Excellence</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;"> 2002 - Name "Atlanta's Best Local Artist" by Southern Voice Readers</span></div>
Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-74145480123401417752009-10-29T13:39:00.001-04:002012-08-24T18:20:44.763-04:00GLBT arts at Sleepless Nights - South Florida Blade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">At the Sleepless Night 2009 event in Miami Beach, festival participants will have the choice to attend the first-ever contemporary GLBT performing arts showcase.<br />
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The headlining act at “Taste” is the “women-led” pop/rock band Betty, who performed the theme song to Showtime’s lesbian drama “The L Word.” Also appearing during the evening will include Drag It Out, a female-to-male drag king show; Juan Carlos Zaldivar, a mixed-media artist who blends video and live performance; and an abbreviated program of songs by Miami Gay Men’s Chorus. The evening will be hosted by South Florida drag impresario Adora.<br />
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“A Taste of Out in the Tropics” is produced by South Florida arts pioneer Robbie Rosenberg, in association with not-for-profit arts organization FUNDarte, as a preview of the upcoming “Out in the Tropics” GLBT contemporary arts festival. Rosenberg said he is helping launch the “Out in the Tropics” series to diversify the cultural landscape among the local community.<br />
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“‘Out in the Tropics’ will bring contemporary, edgy performance work to South Florida,” Rosenberg said. “It will be more like the New York, San Francisco, London axis of performing arts—the kind of stuff that doesn’t get here at all. For some reason we don’t get these kinds of artists in South Florida.”<br />
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Rosenberg said “Out in the Tropics” will change the image of what “GLBT culture” means to South Florida.<br />
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“People think gay culture is just drag shows, and someone singing with a piano,” he said. <br />
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“You have to crack through the idea that all gay culture is like that. [Out in the Tropics] is not a cabaret show. A ‘contemporary arts showcase’ is something different.”<br />
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Explaining the role of a showcase specifically for GLBT artists, Rosenberg acknowledged the performing arts already receive widespread support from the GLBT community, but programming that reflects the lives of GLBT people is rare.<br />
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“You may go see a production of ‘Wicked,’ and lots of the guys performing are gay, but the work doesn’t reference gay identity directly,” Rosenberg said. “It may be campy, it may appeal to gay audiences, but it does not reflect the GLBT experience. “Out in the Tropics” will be performing artists who specifically address queer issues and gender identify, in a way that most performing arts doesn’t show.”<br />
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Rosenberg is well known in arts circles as the founder of the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, where he served as Executive Director for fice years. <span style="background-color: cyan;">He developed “Out in the Tropics” after helping to present the 2008 performance art performance “Becoming A Man in 127 Easy Steps,” by female-to-male transgendered artist Scott Turner Schofield. More than a typical “drag king” performance, Schofield’s show included a combination of monologues and acrobatics amidst video installations; according to his personal website (<a href="http://roohit.com/http://www.undergroundtransit.com"><span class="s4">www.undergroundtransit.com</span></a>), he created the show to “explore the drama and hilarity of living a new life in the ‘opposite gender.’” The show’s synopsis appears to be somewhat academic; but after his performance Schofield was widely praised for his energy and humor, and audiences embraced “127 Easy Steps,” selling out its run at the Arsht Center’s studio theater.<br />
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“It was really exciting,” Rosenberg said of “127 Easy Steps.” “It was really high-quality work. I know many leaders in the community who went to the show, who didn’t know what to expect—they thought it would be political diatribe, which can be hard to stomach. Yet it turned out to be something they could really enjoy.”</span><br />
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Rosenberg said for his “Taste” preview, audiences will get a taste of “contemporary art” with Juan Carlos Zaldivar’s mixed-media performance. But Rosenberg said he chose to include traditional “gay” acts like drag performers, a rock band, and the gay chorus to keep the event informal; the featured act, Betty, plays pop/rock music and should appeal to wide variety of participants, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender.<br />
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-86494510562235169242009-09-11T14:38:00.000-04:002012-08-24T18:20:44.768-04:00Listen: Transgressing GenderI got to speak with the very wonderful <a href="http://petersontoscano.wordpress.com/" linkindex="168">Peterson Toscano</a> on WNPR today. <a href="http://www.cpbn.org/program/where-we-live/episode/wwl-transgressing-gender" linkindex="169">Click here to listen!</a>Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-39307122215200409552009-09-09T15:47:00.000-04:002012-08-24T18:20:44.757-04:00Hartford Advocate: Stage - Transgendering the Stage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">New Haven Advocate, CT, USA</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Transgendering the Stage</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Two shows with transgender themes and genuine theater values come to Hartford</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Tuesday, September 08, 2009</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">By Christopher Arnott</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">--</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Transfigurations — Transgressing Gender in the Bible</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">7:30 p.m., Sept. 11. Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave.,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Hartford. (860) 249-1207, charteroakcenter.org.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"><</span><a href="http://www.charteroakcenter.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #9136ad; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.charteroakcenter.org/</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">8 p.m., Sept. 18-19. Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford. (860)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">232-1006, realartways.org</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"><</span><a href="http://www.realartways.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #9136ad; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.realartways.org/</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">--</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Peterson Toscano eagerly promotes the upcoming performances of Scott</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Turner Schofield's Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps and Toscano's own</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Transfigurations — Transgressing Gender in the Bible as "two plays</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">about transgender themes by two relatively well-known queer</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">performance artists," which is true enough, but some of the words in</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">that description deserve special emphasis.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Toscano's first piece, the very funny yet very personal Doin' Time in</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">the Homo No Mo Halfway House, was confessional in nature. His latest</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">work, however, is less personal — it's about transgendered people, and</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">he is not himself transgendered. The characters he's portraying lived</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">thousands of years ago. Toscano's changing costumes while managing a</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">tricky script based on close readings of Christian and Hebrew</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">scriptures. To flesh out the revelations, he interviewed over 20</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">contemporary transgendered people and "wove their words into the</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">experience," as he puts it. Mainly, Toscano says, "I used tools I</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">learned as an Evangelical Christian — Bible study."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">"People are shocked by the scholarship," he says proudly. They're also</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">apparently knocked for a loop by the show's theatrical, mindblowing</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">surprise ending. "The ending is so shocking that the tech people</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">who're working with me have missed their lighting cues," Toscano</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">laughs. "I have to prepare them carefully. Scott [Turner Schofield]</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">told me 'You totally fucked with my head with that ending.'"</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">For his part, Schofield has augmented his latest solo show, his third,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">with aerial ballet. He also stands out on the queer performance</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">circuit by not technically being queer — he's a straight man who used</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">to biologically be a woman. His work generally explores his spiritual</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">and anatomical journey from female to male, but he has always made</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">sure he brings a show. Besides the intense acrobatics (which Schofield</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">mastered expressly for this show), Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">lives up to its title by having audience members suggest which of the</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">actual 127 stories Schofield is prepared to deliver. There's also a</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">recurring "decoder ring" element copped from a child's "choose your</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">own adventure" book with alternate endings. Asked how he came to such</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">a structure, Schofield jokes that "I ran out of metaphors." His</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">breakthrough piece, Debutante Balls, played with multiple meanings of</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">"coming out," while his earlier Underground Transit used subway</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">imagery to represent submerged urges and "underground" culture.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">"As an activist, I use what I know about theater, and my shows are</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">done for anyone who enjoys theater," Schofield explains. He's seen the</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">results of shooting for larger, broader audiences. When 127 EASY Steps</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">got an unexpected rave review in a mainstream newspaper in his native</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Atlanta, "the weirdest corners of Atlanta society came to see it. And</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">they came away saying 'I understand now — I just needed a story.'"</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Peterson Toscano freely admits that he's grown as a performer since he</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">first hit the circuit with Homo No Mo. That piece was undeniably</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">entertaining but mostly about sharing a real-life story and building a</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">movement, and that's where it was most successful. Toscano takes</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">credit for coining the term "ex-gay survivor," for those who've</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">endured treatments to remove or deny their true homosexual impulses.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Though Toscano has been based in Hartford since 2001, the Sept. 11</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">performance at Charter Oak will be the official Connecticut premiere</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">of Transfigurations, which he has been touring for two years now. The</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">show has been seen throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada, England,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Wales, Northern Ireland, Sweden and South Africa.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">For Toscano, touring to colleges, churches and community centers</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">allows him the best of both worlds — a place to perform and an</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">audience that isn't as "settled" as what he feels he would find in</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">more conventional venues. Removed from the presentational trappings of</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">theater, his audiences often fall into what he describes as "an</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">intense strain of concentration, a Quaker meeting kind of silence."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">His prowess as an actor and speaker has grown, but Toscano hasn't cut</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">back on controversiality. Between Homo No Mo and Transfigurations he</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">devised Queer 101: Now I Know My gAyBCs and The Re-Education of George</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">W. Bush: No President Left Behind. It's his need to engender</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">understanding and compassion for misunderstood areas of society that</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">led him to the Bible for source material. "Part of it is about social</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">justice. The Bible has so often been used against sexual minorities. I</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">decided, 'I'm going to go for the positive.'" Transfigurations</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">features six different people drawn from Hebrew and Christian</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">scriptures, their stories acted out by a narrator. That narrator is,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">"a disciple of Jesus," Toscano explains, "who's purposefully ambiguous</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">— we don't even know what gender."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Both Transfigurations and 127 EASY Steps benefit from a supportive</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Hartford GLBT community. Toscano's Charter Oak booking is a fundraiser</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">for the Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition (transadvocacy.org), while</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Schofield's two performances at Real Art Ways (augmented by a Trans</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Community Forum at the same space, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 16) came about</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">through a grant he received from an anonymous donor during his</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">extended Atlanta engagement. The money was given so the show could be</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">toured in areas of the country "where good work was getting done" with</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">transgender issues.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Schofield, who performed at a Yale transgender awareness event in</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">2007, says "Becoming a Man is my highest artistic achievement at this</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">point." And you can emphasize that any way you like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Nudity, beer chugging, acrobatics and an explosive, menstrual pad-launching rendition of </span><em style="line-height: 1.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hedwig and the Angry Inch</em><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">'s "The Origin of Love" - sound interested?Everyone should be. If more people started going to shows like Scott Turner Schofield's </span><em style="line-height: 1.3em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</em><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">, the world would be a more accepting place. We would see a society in which we seek to understand rather than to exile, and more people would be prepared to accept and help fellow human beings in their struggle to figure out who they are, regardless of sexuality and gender differentials.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Schofield is an award-winning performer and transgender activist who has toured around the country since 2001. He has performed two other solo acts: <em style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Debutante Balls</em> and <em style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Underground Transit</em>, and his book <em style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Two Truths and a Lie</em> has been nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards. Last weekend he was at Houston's DiverseWorks with his newest performance, <em style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</em>.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />As I drove over to DiverseWorks last Saturday, I had no idea what I was about to experience. I had no idea I would be watching a woman-turned-man get naked in front of me on a stage within the first 10 minutes of a performance. (He only stayed naked for about five minutes.) <br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I like to think of myself as a very accepting person, but I'm ashamed to admit that before this show, that mental image may have made me squirm a little.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But after it happened, I was actually really surprised by how, well, natural it felt.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Hilarious, emotional, explosive - and just a bit heart-wrenching at times - <em style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</em> is so successful because you not only feel like you are witnessing someone's private transgender experience, but you actually feel like you are inside of the experience with him.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The key to the success of this performance is its intimacy. From the set to the audience participation to the conversational ingenuity of Scott's portrayal, everything about his performance invites the audience into his world while forcing us to question the mainstream culture that surrounds us.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I'll start with the set, because it strikes me as magnificently effective at constructing an atmosphere in which the audience feels like it's being let in on something personal. Simplistic but intimate, a stripped mattress lays on the floor and above it hangs what looks like a crimson cloth cocoon. Three triangular white drapes hang at the foot and sides of the bed; a screen is placed at the back. The audience sits on three sides of the stage.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />All of a sudden the cocoon starts to move and Scott comes out, weaving his body up and down and around the symbolically blood-colored cloth that now flows to the center of the mattress as a recording of his voice narrates the moment of his conception. Finally, Scott jumped to the floor. He addressed the audience, throwing the white drapes to all three sides of the stage, bringing everyone in the room into what he calls his fort, much like the ones he used to make as a kid. He asked the people in the last rows to pull the drapes back so that they form a straight line, cracking a joke about how "tight and straight is what we value in this culture." He explained that the fort is a safe place to sexually explore and then promises to the audience that "once we're in the fort, I'll tell you everything."<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The title <em style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</em> refers to a decoder ring that is projected onto the screen at the head of the bed. Something like a pie chart, each chunk of the decoder ring is identified with a number and holds heavily-loaded word such as "butch," "gay," "stealth" and "feminine." Scott explained that when combined, these numbers and their words tell about 127 little bits of his identity. He has a story for each one. However, the title is slightly deceptive, as he does not have time to tell 127 stories but rather has the audience request certain numbers and he responds with many stories as he can within his hour on stage.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Scott's stories range from downright comical, to shockingly painful, to thought provoking. Story 47, for example, combines the words "man" and "stealth" and he muses over what penis he would have genetically inherited had he been born with a male body. Then he pulls out three soft packs (attachable penises that create a bulge under pants) of different sizes. He begins to walk around the stage, juggling the three penises. He stops, turns to the crowd, gives a mischievous smile and states, "I'd be a shower, not a grower."<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Towards the end of the show this character, who for the past hour had awed the audience with his charisma and humor in discussing such a complicated topic, reveals his insecure side. We hear some recordings of a phone conversation in which a friend of Scott's explains to him that it is all right to not know how to be a man because the "idea of being a man is just an idea" and that "you happen any way you choose." The room gets a little darker and Scott quietly explains, "My body tells my truth. but sometimes the story is so big I have to lie just a little, and it hurts just a little." We get an image of him sitting in the dark with a syringe, "morphing" himself as he continues to describe the concern he has to live with: that the hormone injections he takes regularly may have negative health implications in the future.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The show closes on an open-ended note, as he says, "I haven't figured out the end. . All I can do is be a man, and know when to leave."<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I can't express the impact this performance had on me. It has certainly made me ponder what constitutes gender, acceptance and how the constant evolution of the individual in personal and public spaces is something that we all go through in our own ways, yet we tend to shut off the process of understanding evolutions different from our own.<em style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</em> was only showing in Houston last weekend, so I wish I could have shared this earlier, but I recommend that you go see him if you ever get the chance.<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Andi Gomez is a Lovett College Senior.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.ricethresher.org/entertainment/thoughts-on-schofield-s-gender-bending-becoming-a-man-in-127-easy-steps-1.901614#.UDJ1CDY_A04.blogger"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Thoughts on Schofield's gender-bending Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps - Entertainment - The Rice Thresher - Rice University</span></a></div>
Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-3091164237681826972009-01-26T00:12:00.000-05:002012-08-24T18:26:38.289-04:00Performance deconstructs definitions - Arts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Amid the flurry of Winter Term events and speakers, performance artist Scott Turner Schofield quietly staged one of the most unusual, exceptional presentations Middlebury College has seen all year. Schofield was invited to Middlebury by T Cooper ('94), and visiting Winter Term professor, who included some of Schofield's works in T's class, "Transgressive Fiction."</div>
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Schofield began his genre-crossing performance by handing cups of sweet tea to every audience member and politely chatting about his Southern upbringing. After pouring the last of the tea, he turned his blue-eyed, open face to his laptop and called up a picture of a large, segmented circle with words like "male," "female," "gay" and "straight" written in each slice.</div>
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"Which of these words would you use to describe me?" he asked. After some sheepish seconds and a few mumbled audience responses, Schofield launched into what he called "the nuts and bolts." He is a man who was born a woman. Although he has not yet undergone (and may never undergo) expensive and complicated "bottom surgery" that would replace his vagina with a facsimile penis, he has been injecting testosterone for years and is convincingly male in appearance. He is a "lesbian-turned-straight guy" as his books' dust jackets concisely state. However, his journey through the maze of gender and sexual identity has been far from direct. Schofield's work is based in the psychological, emotional and philosophical effects of that journey.</div>
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Schofield did not perform full versions of his works. Instead, the presentation was minimally structured and highly participative: the audience asked questions about Schofield's life and work and Schofield answered with conversation, multimedia presentations from his laptop or performances of selected pieces. The writings, which Schofield called simply "stories," varied in style, from poetry to prose-poetry to monologues with stage directions.</div>
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The event was a cross between an interview and a collaborative storytelling session, with Schofield assuming the roles of master of ceremonies, tour guide and human exhibit. The medium (or, more accurately, media) of the performance dovetailed with its larger themes. "Gender is a performance," Schofield remarked, but unlike a play or poem, gender performance is constant, unavoidable and inherently multimedia. Every moment is simultaneously "real" and performed.</div>
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Many of those moments can be hilarious. Schofield's performance thrived on the humor generated by breaches of social norms. For instance, he told a harrowing, hilarious story of returning to Georgia to participate in a friend's debutante ball (a ceremony ironically known to Southerners as "coming out"). Because very few people in his hometown knew he was a transsexual, he was forced to pull together a convincing female outfit, crossdressing ("double-crossing?") back to his former gender.</div>
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Some of Schofield's stories seemed too funny or dramatic to be true, prompting one audience member to ask simply, "Do you embellish?" Schofield smiled. "Great question," he said. "It's not about embellishment. It's about word choice: what choices do you make about telling the truth?" In writing, one can choose to move "closer to" or "farther from" a story, but in either case, Schofield believes, the story can retain an authentic core.</div>
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Perhaps the greatest joy of the event was Schofield's obvious love for his job. He praised live performance's ability to reveal truth "through stories, not through lecture" and to forge genuine human connection. "Performance is one of the last bastions of incredible grassroots action," he said. "If you're going to open your heart to anything, you have to see the performer, you have to see each other and the performer has to see you." For these reasons, Schofield refuses to perform for more than 100 people at a time.</div>
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Schofield's presentation uniquely combined form, structure and content into a compelling, earnest statement of identity.</div>
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<strong>THEATER REVIEW. Grade: A- </strong><br />
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As a camp counselor in Costa Rica a few years ago, <strong>Scott Turner Schofield</strong> suffered a serious blow to the head that required a detailed medical examination and extended hospital stay. When his doctor realized the athletic young man had the body of a woman, he thought the kid was just confused. <br />
“Son, you have a terrible brain injury,” the doctor said sternly.<br />
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After having a heart-to-heart conversation with another doctor about his quest for a sex change, Schofield was informed that Costa Rica is the cosmetic-surgery capital of Latin America. And the surgeon offered to remove his breasts on the spot.<br />
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In his autobiographical solo performance piece, “Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps,” the Atlanta-based artist describes the comic absurdity, social stigma, emotional imperilment and sheer-naked vulnerability of the transgendered life.<br />
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Suggesting an image of physical rebirth, the show begins with Schofield emerging from a cocoon of billowing fabric suspended from the ceiling. After a precarious aerial ballet, he bounds to the floor like some newly minted Peter Pan and describes the messy medical details of getting a sex change. In a metaphorical gesture that signifies the total soul-baring to come, he disrobes completely and tapes a sign to the set that says: “No secrets allowed.”<br />
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By turns fiercely comic, brutally honest and deeply moving, the <strong>7 Stages</strong> show is beautifully written, choreographed and performed. Like some sexually ambiguous Scheherazade, Schofield unspools the action as a series of stories chosen willy-nilly by the audience from a list of numbers assigned to various words (“queer,” “straight,” “butch,” “femme” and so forth). Directed by <strong>Steve Bailey</strong>, the intermissionless 75-minute pieces feels so artfully balanced and delicately nuanced that it makes you wonder if Schofield really has 127 stories in his repertoire or is just pretending. <br />
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From the little girl forced to wear a Minnie Mouse costume when she really wanted to be Mickey to the young man standing in front of a Texas judge begging to have his sexual designation legally changed, from the complicated family relationships to the three suicide attempts, “Becoming a Man” is raw, urgent and honest. Much to his credit, Schofield comes across more as a loveable neighborhood kid bursting with energy and insight than an agenda-waving political zealot.<br />
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With great humor and pathos, he describes his alienation from his biological father, relates his adventures as a baby-sitter and describes his close calls with Atlanta cops and skinny-dipping European males. During the performance, he sings “Like a Bird on a Wire” while tethered to a swinging rope, and has a live telephone conversation with his stepfather.<br />
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In a democracy that boasts great freedom of expression, transgenderism may be the final frontier of sexual politics. Going from male to female can’t be an easy process, and this 27-year-old artist never pretends that is. Schofield — winner of an off-Broadway Fruitie Award and a prestigious Princess Grace Foundation acting fellowship —says the titular number 127 is part of his Social Security number, and jokes that he wants someone to steal his identity. <br />
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As it turns out, the man born as Katie Lauren Kilborn has sculpted a personality so unique that it would be virtually impossible to replicate. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">THE 411:</span> 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. 5 p.m. Sunday. Through Sunday. 7 Stages. 1105 Euclid Ave., Little Five Points. 404-523-7647, 7stages.org. (Note: Features adult material and full-frontal nudity.)<br />
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<u><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bottom line: </span>One of the year’s most essential theater experiences.</u></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Dec. 10 2009 - Jan 20 2010 - <a href="http://www.outnorth.org/"><span class="s4">Out North</span></a></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Guest Artistic Director Residency Period</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: large;">FALL 2009</span></b></span></div>
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<b>12/4-5/09 - <a href="http://paintedbride.org/"><span class="s4">Painted Bride Art Center</span></a></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></span></div>
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</span>
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<span class="s1">presented by Painted Bride Art Center</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Trans-Community Forum for Queer Youth at The Attic</b></span></div>
<div class="p16" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">This Residency was made possible in part</span></div>
<div class="p16" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">by an Anonymous Donation</span></div>
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administered by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.</div>
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<span class="s1">National Performance Network Residency</span></div>
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</span>
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<br /></div>
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<b>11/17-18/09 - Brown University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Debutante Balls</b></span></div>
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</span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Trans 101 workshops</b></span></div>
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</span>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>10/14-16/09 - Trinity College</b><br />Dublin, Ireland</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b><span class="s1"><b>Trans 101 workshops</b></span><br />
International Premiere and Show Retirement</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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</span>
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<div class="p6" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>10/4-9/09 - <a href="http://www.cddb.fr/"><span class="s4">CDDB</span></a></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Trans 101 for high school students</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Page to Stage Workshop for high school students</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">International Debut!</span></div>
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</span>
<br />
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>9/18-19/09 - <a href="http://www.realartways.org/"><span class="s4">Real Art Ways</span></a></b><span class="s1"><b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></span></div>
<span class="s1"><b>
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Trans Community Forum</b></span></div>
<span class="s1"><b>
</b></span>
<br />
<div class="p16" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">This residency was made possible by an Anonymous Donation</span></div>
<div class="p16" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">administered by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: large;">SPRING 2009</span></b></span></div>
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</span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s5"><br /></span></div>
<span class="s5">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>3/6-8 - Highways Performance Space</b></span></div>
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</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">Los Angeles, CA</span></div>
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</span>
<span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
L.A.'s QUEER EXCHANGE + SAN FRANCISCO ARTISTS </div>
</span><div class="p21" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s3"><a href="http://www.npnweb.org/">National Performance Network</a></span><span class="s6"> Residency</span></div>
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<span class="s1">presented by </span></div>
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<span class="s1">presented by <a href="http://www.highwaysperformance.org/"><span class="s4">Highways</span></a></span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>FRINGES-MARGINS-BORDERS</b></span></div>
<span class="s5"></span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/10 - Claremont College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Claremont, CA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
L.A.'s QUEER EXCHANGE + SAN FRANCISCO ARTISTS </div>
</span><div class="p21" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s3"><a href="http://www.npnweb.org/">National Performance Network</a></span><span class="s6"> Residency</span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">presented by </span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">presented by <a href="http://www.highwaysperformance.org/"><span class="s4">Highways</span></a></span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>FRINGES-MARGINS-BORDERS</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s5"><br /></span></div>
<span class="s5">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>3/12-14 - Sushi</b></span></div>
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</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">San Diego, CA</span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">L.A.'s QUEER EXCHANGE + SAN FRANCISCO ARTISTS </span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<div class="p21" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s3"><a href="http://www.npnweb.org/">National Performance Network</a></span><span class="s6"> Residency</span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">presented by </span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">presented by <a href="http://www.highwaysperformance.org/"><span class="s4">Highways</span></a></span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>FRINGES-MARGINS-BORDERS</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>3/24-26 - Butler University</b></span></div>
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</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">Indianapolis, IN</span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Two Truths and a Lie reading</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s5"><br /></span></div>
<span class="s5">
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/3-5 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/8-10 - Knox College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Galesburg, IL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage Workshop</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Strange Bedfellows Workshop</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Transgender Inclusion for Administrators Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/20-24 - The University of Kansas</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Lawrence, KS</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>5/2 - The 17th Annual <a href="http://htuc.org/banquet.htm"><span class="s4">Houston Transgender Unity</span></a> Banquet</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Keynote Speaker</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>5/4-7 - University of Cincinnati</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Cincinnati, OH</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Two Truths and a Lie Reading</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>5/12-14 - DePaul University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Chicago, IL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Two Truths and a Lie Reading</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">FALL 2008</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/8 - University of Pittsburgh</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Pittsburgh, PA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Two Truths and a Lie Reading</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/14 - University of Central Florida </b><br />
Orlando, FL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops<br />Page to Stage Workshop</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Transgender Inclusivity for Administrators Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/16 - Rollins College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Orlando, FL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Two Truths and a Lie Reading</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Transgender Inclusivity for Administrators Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/23 - Illinois State University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Normal, IL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/8 - The Flynn Center</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Burlington, VT</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Words Can’t Describe</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with S. Bear Bergman</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Strange Bedfellows Workshop at UVM</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/17 - University of Wisconsin</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Whitewater, WI</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Transgender Inclusion Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/20 - Portland State University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Portland, OR</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Two Truths and a Lie Reading</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>12/13-14- On The Boards</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Seattle, WA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
National Performance Network Annual Meeting Showcase</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">SPRING 2008</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>1/20-27- The Carnival Center</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Miami, FL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 high school workshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans-Community Forum</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
National Performance Network Residency</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>1/28-2/3 - <a href="http://www.7stages.org/"><span class="s4">7 Stages</span></a></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta, GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
National Performance Network Residency</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>2/22-24 - The Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally Conference</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
</span><div class="p23" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3 /24-30 - <a href="http://www.outnorth.org/"><span class="s4">Out North</span></a> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">Anchorage, AK</span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>"Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps"</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></span></div>
<span class="s1"><b>
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Page to Stage with incarcerated youth</b></span><span class="s1">National Performance Network Residency</span></div>
<span class="s1"><b>
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s5"><br /></span></div>
<span class="s5">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>6/19-22 - <a href="http://www.freshmeatproductions.org/"><span class="s4">FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL</span></a></b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">San Francisco, CA</span></div>
<span class="s1">
<div style="text-align: center;">
Selections from Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
MC</div>
</span><span class="s1">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">FALL 2007</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>10/2 - Franklin and Marshall College</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">Lancaster, PA</span></div>
<span class="s1">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
</span><b><br /></b><b>10/19 - The Evergreen State University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Olympia, WA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Creation residency</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Performance Studies Guest Lecturer</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/27 & 28- Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Seattle, WA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
World Premiere!</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
National Performance Network Residency</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/6-9 - Appalachian State University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Boone, NC</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/12-19 - Legion Arts Center</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Cedar Rapids, IA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
National Performance Network Residency</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">SPRING 2007</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>1/20 - The University of Wyoming at Laramie</b></div>
<span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Strange Bedfellows Workshop</b></div>
</span><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>1/22-23 - Butler University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Indianapolis, IN</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>1/27 - Femme Mafia Masquerade</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta, GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
MC</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/5-10 - <a href="http://www.patgraney.org/"><span class="s4">The Pat Graney Company</span></a> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Seattle, WA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps Creation Residency</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans-Community Forum</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/23 - SUNY Purchase</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/25 - Colgate University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Hamilton, NY</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/2-6 - Indiana University of Pennsylvania</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Indiana, PA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/12 -Macalester College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
St. Paul, MN</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/15-16 - Yale University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
New Haven, CT</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage Workshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Guest Lecture in Performance Studies</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/17-18 - <a href="http://www.pwcenter.org/"><span class="s4">The Playwrights' Center</span></a> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Minneapolis, MN</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Creation Residency</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/17 - <a href="http://www.undergroundtransit.com/www.dist202.org/"><span class="s4">District 202</span></a> / <a href="http://www.outwardspiral.org/"><span class="s4">Outward Spiral Theater</span></a> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Minneapolis, MN</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/19 - University of Minnesota</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Minneapolis, MN<br />
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/25 - Emory University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta, GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/27 - Marietta College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Marietta, OH</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Worshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"></span><span class="s5">
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>5/18 - Moxie Cabaret</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta, GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
MC</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1">
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">FALL 2006</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/10 - Appalachian State University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Boone, NC</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Strange Bedfellows Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/11 - The University of Georgia </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Athens, GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/12 - The University of North Carolina at Asheville</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/22 - International Drag KingCommunity Extravaganza</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Austin, TX</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls Selections</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/24 - Rice University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Houston, TX</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/27 - The Forum at College of Santa Fe</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Santa Fe, NM</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/1 - The University of Wyoming at Laramie</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Strange Bedfellows Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/5 - Reed College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Portland, OR</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/6 - The University of Southern California</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Los Angeles, CA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/12 - National Performance Network Annual Meeting</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Cedar Rapids, IA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls Artburst</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/14 - Portland State University</b><br />
<b>Debutante Balls </b></div>
</span><span class="s5">
</span><span class="s1">
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">SPRING 2006</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>1/13 - The University of Wyoming at Laramie</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s5">
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/15 - The University of Pittsburgh</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Pittsburgh, PA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 workshop</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/22 - Emory University</b><br />Atlanta, GA</div>
</span><span class="s5"><b><div style="text-align: center;">
Workshop of Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps</div>
</b></span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
Sponsored by the Center for Women at Emory, The Office of LGBT Life</div>
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
and the Department of Theater Studies</div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s5"><br /></span></div>
<span class="s5">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>4/5 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Underground Transit</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Trans 101 workshop</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Transgender Inclusion for Administrators workshop</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/8-15 Touring with the Tranny Roadshow</b><br />
<br />
<b> </b><span class="s1"><b>5/11 Queens College</b>Charlotte, NC<br /><b>Underground Transit</b>A benefit for Time Out Youth</span></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>5/17 and 19 - Hugo House</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Seattle, WA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Presented by The Pat Graney Company</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>5/26-28 - Jump Start Performance Co.</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
San Antonio, TX</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
National Performance Network Residency</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage Workshop</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Words Can’t Describe Community Performance</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1">
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">FALL 2005</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>9/13 - The Poynter Institute</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
St. Petersburg, FL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>9/23 - Southern Comfort Conference</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/7 - Agnes Scott College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Decatur GA </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/17 - Bates College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Lewsiton, ME</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/18-20 - Cornell University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Ithaca, NY</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop<br />Guest Lecturer in Performance Studies</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/7-9 - West Chester University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
West Chester, PA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/15 - Reed College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Portland, OR</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Southern Gents Tour</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Athens Boys Choir</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/16 - Portland State University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Portland, OR</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/17 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/19 - TransGiving</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Los Angeles, CA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Selections from Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>11/20 - The University of California Los Angeles</b><br />
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">SUMMER 2005</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>7/29-30 - 7 Stages</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta, GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>Words Can’t Describe</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">with S. Bear Bergman</span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>6/16-18 - National Queer Arts Festival</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
San Francisco, CA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5">
</span><span class="s1">
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">SPRING 2005</span></b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>2/10-13 - The University of California at Santa Barbara</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/3 - Hampshire College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Amherst, MA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/4-8 - Emory University Brave New Works Festival</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta, GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Playwriting Residency for Turn Me On</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with Sheri Man Stewart</div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/15 - Columbia College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Chicago, IL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/29 - Vassar College</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Poughkeepsie, NY</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/31 - Butler University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Indianapolis, IN</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/3-4 - Wesleyan University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Middletown, CT</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>4/13 - Emory University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta, GA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>5/16 - Northwestern University</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Evanston, IL</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>5/15-29 - 7 Stages</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Atlanta, GA<br />
<b>Wizzer Pizzer</b><br />
by Amy Wheeler</div>
</span><span class="s5">
</span><span class="s1">
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">FALL 2004</span></b></div>
</span><br />
<div class="p24" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>9/23-24 - The Chicago Single File Festival</b><br />Chicago, IL</span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>"Debutante Balls"</b></span></div>
<div class="p22" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>WORLD PREMIER</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s5"><br /></span></div>
<span class="s5">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>10/4-7 - Emory University Brave New Works Festival</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">Atlanta, GA</span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>School’s Out playwriting residency</b></span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">with Mark Blankenship</span></div>
<span class="s1">
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/12 - The University of Houston</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Houston, TX</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/15 - The University of North Carolina at Asheville</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Debutante Balls</b></div>
</span><span class="s5"><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10/21 - The University of Virginia</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Charlottesville, VA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Gay Marriage Here Today Community Performance</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Page to Stage Workshop</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></div>
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<b>11/7 - LadyFest South</b></div>
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Atlanta, GA</div>
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<b>Debutante Balls Selections</b></div>
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<b>11/18-20 - The University of Wyoming at Laramie</b></div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b><br />
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<span class="s1"><b>Trans 101 Workshop</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Page to Stage Workshop</b></span></div>
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</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>12/9 - GenderCrash</b></div>
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Boston, MA</div>
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<b>Debutante Balls selections</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">SPRING 2004</span></b></div>
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<b>April - The B Complex </b></div>
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Atlanta, GA</div>
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<b>Debutante Balls - first look</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2003</b></span></div>
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11/7 - The University of Virginia</div>
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Charlottesville, VA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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<b>10/11-12 - The University of Wyoming at Laramie<br />Underground Transit<br />Trans 101 Workshops</b></div>
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</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
9/4-6 - sTaGes 2003: The First National Transgender Theatre Festival</div>
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<b>WOW Cafe</b></div>
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New York City</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>7/29-8/3 - The 27th Annual Meeting of ALTERNATE ROOTS</b></div>
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Winder, GA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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<b>6/25-26 - HERE Arts Center and Dixon Place</b></div>
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New York City</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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Part of the FUSE Festival</div>
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<b>4/6-9 - AIDS OASIS Conference</b></div>
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Pensacola, FL</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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4/3 - The University of North Carolina at Asheville</div>
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Underground Transit</div>
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<b>1/9-18 - Actor's Express </b></div>
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Atlanta, GA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2002</span></b></div>
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<b>10/21- Ondine & Co. </b></div>
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Atlanta, GA</div>
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<b>Falling as Sport</b></div>
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part of "Damaged but Not Dead and Other Hilarious Survival Stories" </div>
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<span class="s1">produced by EstroFest Productions</span></div>
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<span class="s5"><b>10/12 - LadyFest South </b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Atlanta, GA</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Underground Transit</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>9/29 - Southern Comfort Conference</b></span></div>
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Atlanta, GA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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<b>9/27-10/6 - Theatre in the Square Alley Stage</b></div>
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Marietta, GA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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<b>8/30-31 - Philadelphia Live Arts Festival</b></div>
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Fresh Fringe Curated Selection</div>
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<b>Mumm PuppetTheater </b></div>
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Philadelphia, PA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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<b>6/22-28 - PushPush Theater </b></div>
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Atlanta, GA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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Part of Vamp/ReVamp</div>
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<b>March/April - Emory University</b></div>
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Atlanta, GA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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<b>3/11 - Bennington College</b></div>
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Bennington, VT</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>3/9 - Bard College</b></div>
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Poughkeepsie, NY</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2001</span></b></div>
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</span><span class="s1"><div style="text-align: center;">
<b>2/18 - PushPush Theater</b></div>
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Atlanta, GA</div>
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<b>Underground Transit</b></div>
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part of SEEN+HEARD: Atlanta's Women's Arts Festival</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
produced by EstroFest Productions</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1"><b>12/1 -Charis Books & More</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="s1">Atlanta, GA</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Underground Transit</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">World Premiere!</span></div>
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-66908666210773835182008-05-06T20:15:00.000-04:002012-08-26T16:33:45.639-04:00Audience Response<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Organizing your visit here to SLU has been one of my favorite experiences in my 3 years here, in no small part because it was one of the clearest examples of students being inspired and energized and challenged to think both creatively and critically about their own lives and the world around them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I attended Scott Turner Schofield: Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps on Saturday, 9/19.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What an exceptional show! I was so impressed with Scott's unflinching honesty about what it means to be transgender. He is an extraordinarily brave person with a truly innovative artistic voice. I was touched, enlightened and filled with laughter, all in the span of a single performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Congratulations to Scott! I hope the awards keep coming his way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I saw your show tonight at Real Art Ways in Hartford and wanted you to know how much I loved it. The "127 Steps" and "choose your own adventure" format was pure genius, I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">i just wanted to thank you for your art. i'm not sure yet what it means to me-- a 20something, woman-born woman, married to a man (i guess i might fall into the "Questioning" category, whatever that means...)-- but i'm certain, on a grander level than just my own context, yours is great and necessary work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thomas King, a Canadian Storyteller and educator, wrote in his book (first a lecture series) The Truth About Stories: "the truth about stories is that's all we are". that was the first thing that came to mind when i saw bits of your performance on YouTube. You give me hope in people-- in the ability to change people through stories and in the ability to trust people with stories. Thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just wanted to say that it was a pleasure working with you at DiverseWorks! At our staff meeting yesterday, we talked about how awesome your performance was and how the TG community rules in Houston. You have made such an impact on all of us! Anyways…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just wanted to make sure you that got this fantastic review from The Rice Thresher!</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://media.www.ricethresher.org/media/storage/paper1290/news/2009/02/27/Entertainment/Thoughts.On.Schofields.GenderBending.Becoming.A.Man.In.127.Easy.Steps-3651627.shtml" linkindex="15" target="_blank">http://media.www.ricethresher.<wbr></wbr>org/media/storage/paper1290/<wbr></wbr>news/2009/02/27/Entertainment/<wbr></wbr>Thoughts.On.Schofields.<wbr></wbr>GenderBending.Becoming.A.Man.<wbr></wbr>In.127.Easy.Steps-3651627.<wbr></wbr>shtml</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thanks again for performing at TransGiving. You stole everyone's heart and refused to give any of them back, especially Jason's. Now he sees why I think you and Ryka are both such special people, and he wants to understand more about transgendered and genderqueer folk.<br />Thanks again for presenting to our Counseling Center staff and guests last Wednesday morning, as part of your time at UCF. The feedback that I heard was very positive, and it seemed that everyone found your talk valuable. I enjoyed meeting you and appreciate your working with us on this.<br />Thank you so much for coming to Rollins this week and for speaking to us as faculty, staff and students. I found your presentation to be informative and inspiring, offering me a sense of clarity and compassion for a community I will admit I do not often think twice about. Thank you, thank you, thank You.<br /> I wanted to tell you how fantastic you were! To put yourself out there like that takes a lot of courage and I applaud you for having the confidence in yourself to do that and share how wonderfully diverse yet ultimately, in a deeper sense, how similar we are. With such honesty yet keeping it light with your humor.<br /> I just wanted to reiterate how much Jay and I enjoyed your show last night. Your story is a fascinating one, and beautifully told.<br />i was so touched by your performance.<br />there was a strong connection for me in watching it...... seeing that is was sooo very real.<br />not that i thought it wouldn't be , or that of it was made up. you are so very brave. i wanted to hug you, but when i shook you hand, i couldn't even talk because i wanted to cry. not from being sad, but just feeling like i wasn't alone.<br />it hit me very hard, because i've kinda been struggling for the past year with my identity, and all the labels there are to choose from. i don't want to have to choose, or have to explain myself and who i am to anybody.i am trans.but i always felt like i had to look a certain way.....to actually be able to use that, for people to understand me in this community. but its me.its who i am. and i accept it. it made so much sense....made me so comfortable to watch you and hear you......i cried during your show. and i felt like the audience...maybe took some of things that you talked about differently than i did. i just understood it. i understood you. and i understood myself better than i have in recent months. i can't wait to read your book, to read all of your stories.....because some of them are mine too, you know?<br />I was at the Evergreen workshop performances and I was wondering how well the Seattle show went. 127 Steps was one of the most moving and dialectical things I've ever seen. I talk about it to all of my friends and what an intense experience the show was.<br />The flier hangs in my studio because it was something so thought provoking.</span><br />
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-63293076377453961982008-01-04T19:53:00.000-05:002012-08-24T18:03:43.372-04:00New Book!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: 85%;"><strong><em>Two Truths and a Lie</em><br /> a memoir written & performed by<br /> Scott Turner Schofield<br /> Price: U.S.$15.00</strong><br /> ISBN-10: 0-9785973-2-X<br /> ISBN-13: 978-0-9785973-2-0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: 85%;"><strong>"I am completely mad for Scott Turner Schofield. He is a thrilling, compelling, and downright charming writer and performance artist. And handsome. Did I mention handsome? And smart. Buy this book. Read it.<br /> — Kate Bornstein, author of <em>Hello Cruel World</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: 85%;">Homofactus Press proudly announces Two Truths and a Lie,a memoir in the form of three solo plays written and performed by critically-acclaimed solo performer Scott Turner Schofield. From inside the often hilarious—but all too real—moments of his young life on the Homecoming Court and Debutante Ball circuit (in a dress), armed with only a decoder ring and a gifted tongue, Schofield comes out with truly unbelievable stories of a body in search of an identity. By turns slapstick and slap-to-the-face, this drama invites audiences and readers to explore gender, sex, sexuality, and self in their own first person.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: 85%;"> "Scott Turner Schofield's storytelling is so honest, his approach so unique, his style so unselfconscious and disarming, that his shows will have you wrapped around his pinkie in no time. I've seen this Southern gent win over the most jaded of New York theater audiences with one wry smile and a perfectly placed raised eyebrow. He's the real thing—and nothing less than a national treasure." — T Cooper, bestselling author of <em>Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes</em> and <em>Some of the Parts</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: 85%;"><em>Two Truths and a Lie</em> is the latest work from <a href="http://www.homofactuspress.com/" target="_blank">Homofactus Press</a>, a publishing house dedicated to work by and for trans and genderqueer men. Publisher Jay Sennett is thrilled with Schofield's book: “Scott is both a torchbearer for a rich tradition of queer theater and a catalyst for new work that uniquely describes transmasculine experiences.”<br /> <br /> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: 85%;">Schofield: "I write my shows with my family in mind: my family who doesn't share and doesn't really understand my transgender and queer identities, but who love me and would rather hear a story than a lecture. I hope that my readers—audiences I may never look in the eye—find something in my book to add to their understanding of the transgender experience, and even better, to their own experiences of their genders, too."<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: 85%;">For more information, contact <strong>Alan at pr@homofactuspress.com</strong>. If you would like to schedule an interview with Scott Turner Schofield or receive a digital review copy of <em>Two Truths and a Lie</em>, please contact Alan at pr@homofactuspress.com.</span></div>
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-91682973097922797872007-11-12T22:23:00.000-05:002012-08-24T18:28:24.297-04:00Appalachian State University residency report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Residency Location: Appalachian State University, Boone NC</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dates: 11/7-9/07</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Performance: "Underground Transit"</span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Sponsors: TransAction, Office of Multicultural Student Development, [MANY OTHERS...]</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Residency Schedule and Activities:</span><br />
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11/7: Arrive. 1pm: Class talk to English Composition class. Elizabeth Wilson, instructor.<br />
3pm: Class talk to English Composition class. Elizabeth Wilson, instructor.<br />
5pm: Class talk to English Composition class. Elizabeth Wilson, instructor.<br />
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11/8: 11am: Class talk to English Literature class. Elizabeth West, instructor.<br />
1pm: Class talk to English Composition class. Elizabeth West, instructor.<br />
3pm: Class talk to English Composition class. Elizabeth West, instructor.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Class talks stats:</span><br />
Average attendance: 20 students<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Impressions:</span> As usual, some classes were more quiet than others. I regret that I did not perform in one class, I only lectured, and this was a mistake - performance is what hooks them!<br />
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One Composition class comprised of Criminal Justice majors who were initially very resistant (snickering, closed body language, text messaging), but who became very engaged when the focus turned to how understanding transgender identity and issues would benefit them as police officers and prison administrators. We discussed the current state of affairs in many jails and prisons (prisoners are not administered hormones, are often victims of abuse and assault) and looked for ways that they could approach this issue when they become a part of the prison system. I encouraged them to focus their research on trans issues in the prison-industrial complex for their upcoming mid-terms.<br />
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In the Literature class, I focused on the difference between theory and story: how labels do not create empathy or understanding, but stories do.<br />
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In all of my class talks at Appalachian State, I was surprised to find men leading most of the conversation. In most other places, men stay quiet while women ask questions and lead conversation. I noticed that both men and women ask the same questions; however, at App, I will note that the physics of what transpeople do in bed came up every time (this is a rare topic other places)!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Feedback: </span><br />
"I asked my students the next day what they thought of your presentation. They were pretty uncomfortable -- and that's a good thing! Usually they don't remember anything we covered in the last class. After you, they were still present with the ideas you brought up, because they're still digesting them. I was really pleased to see them working so hard on the concepts you brought up."<br />
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11/9/07, 7pm: <span style="font-style: italic;">Community Workshop at Unitarian Universalist Congregation</span> on gender oppression in Boone, NC and Appalachian State.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Attendance</span>: 25. Comprised of TransAction and SAGA members; University administrators, faculty, and staff; UUC members, and Boone residents.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Impressions:</span> A very liberal/radical/progressive crowd. Business owners were invited to discuss ways of making the community safe for people of all genders, but none attended.<br />
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I became uncomfortable during the conversation when we started using "they" and "them" to refer to the white, conservative Christians that make up a large part of Boone's community. I asked the participants to consider that "they" often talk about "us" with the same distaste, which usually makes for bad situations. "We are Them, They are Us," I said, and we shifted to discussing positive ways "we" can approach "them" to create a safe community for everybody. My partner, Carey Martin, brought up the Femme Mafia example: this group approached business owners and created visibility by holding regular monthly meetings in different restaurants, cafes, and clubs. They educated the establishments about femme identity by just showing up and patronizing the business. TransAction thought this would be a good idea for their meetings.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Feedback:</span><br />
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"I was glad you brought up the Us/Them thing. We do need to talk about things differently."<br />
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"Great facilitation."<br />
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11/9: 3:30-5pm: <span style="font-style: italic;">Workshop: Strange Bedfellows - Greeks, Jocks, and Queers.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Location</span>: Grandfather Mountain Ballroom, Student Union Building<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Attendance</span>: 100. Comprised mostly of members of the Kappa Alpha fraternity as well as 2 sorority members (didn't record which sororities). TransAction and SAGA members attended in-full. Due to peak football and basketball season, only 3 athletes attended.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Impressions</span>: Tough crowd at first! I feared I might lose all of the many Greeks who showed up as I introduced words and topics about sex, gender, and sexuality. I illustrated examples of how Greeks, Jocks, and Queers 1) each deal with similar (mis)impressions of their groups, 2) are actually all valuable leaders on campus, and 3) have many characteristics in common, and the crowd warmed. Splitting into small groups allowed each sector to interact with groups they might otherwise never connect with and cemented our path to getting to know one another. By the end of the session, plans were in the making for inter-group service projects and fund raising dinners.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Feedback</span>:<br />
"I never had the chance to talk to a gay person before."<br />
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"I never thought that I might be part of the problem as a queer person, that I might be causing the tension between Greeks, Jocks, and Queers. I always felt like a victim, but it's true, I have a lot of prejudices myself, and that's just as unfair."<br />
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"We can't change the campus climate overnight here. But this was a really good first step. We can bring this back to our chapters and try to make change in small ways. That would be a big thing, actually."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Performance: "Underground Transit"</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Date</span>: 11/09/07 (Friday night, 7pm)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Location</span>: Grandfather Mountain Ballroom, Student Union Building<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Attendance</span>: 120<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Impressions</span>: Excellent crowd! Comprised mostly of people I hadn't seen before, as well as many class and workshop members. I couldn't believe so many people came out on a Friday night to a queer theater show, but that just goes to show that class talks and workshops really bring folks out! The performance went well. The Q&A after was in-depth. My mom and partner attended, which allowed questions about family and relationships to take on a deeper meaning -- their presence "authenticated" my answers.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Feedback</span>:<br />
"Thank you for doing this show. I feel I understand myself better because you said many things I have thought myself."<br />
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"I'm gay, and I have a lot of problems with transgender people. I just can't understand how you can be a man, but not a man, or a woman, but not a woman. I struggle with it because I want to be supportive, but I just don't get it. Tonight I understood it. You're a man, there's nothing else to it. And you have breasts and you look good in a skirt, but you're definitely a man. I get it now."</div>
Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-1149468535707331232006-06-04T20:19:00.000-04:002012-08-24T18:33:08.707-04:00San Antonio Pre-Show<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Scott Turner Schofield<br />
Jump-Start Performance Company<br />
National Performance Network Community Fund Grant Report<br />
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Narrative<br />
My pre-residency with Jump-Start Performance Company in San Antonio, made possible by the Community Fund Grant, makes me believe that the community-based, multi-cultural, multi-issue work that I aim to make as a transgender solo artist is, in fact, completely possible—and totally exciting.<br />
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Before I arrived in San Antonio, JSPC members researched appropriate venues for me to network with community artists in and out of the many transgender communities in the city. When I arrived, we set up a schedule and laid out our goals:<br />
1)Identify transgender individuals and communities in San Antonio who are active in performance, social, and/or activist circles.<br />
2)Identify individuals and communities in San Antonio who would be allies to transpeople through art, personal solidarity, and/or social activism.<br />
3)Identify transgender individuals and communities in Austin and Houston who are active in performance, social, and/or activist circles.<br />
4)Identify individuals and communities in Austin and Houston who would be allies to transpeople through art, personal solidarity, and/or social activism.<br />
5)Entice those people to speak and perform during National Performance Network residency for “Debutante Balls” at Jump-Start, May 26th and 27th. <br />
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The community element of the residency we envision for May looks like this: <br />
What: Performance-Workshop-Networking opportunity for San Antonio-Austin-Houston artists who do with gender, in performance, what words just can't describe; Discussion forum for San Antonio transgender communities and our allies.<br />
Why: To identify, celebrate and support trans communities and their allies in the region, talk about what matters to us, show off our work, smash some gender norms, and have a rockin' good time.<br />
When: Friday, May 26, 8-11pm: “Debutante Balls” a 1-trannie show by Scott Turner Schofield followed by Cross-Cultural Trans-Community Forum for people of all genders.<br />
Saturday, May 27, 2005 12pm-2am<br />
12-2pm: Gender Performance Workshop with Scott Turner Schofield & Area Performers; 8pm: Words Can't Describe Regional Performance Showcase & Debutante Balls;<br />
10:30pm: Drag BBQ! <br />
What Else: EVERYBODY welcome & encouraged to participate—yes, You. Travel stipend for out-of-town artists ($100 Houston artists, $50 Austin Artists), $100 minimum honorarium for Words Can't Describe participants [paid for by the Community Fund Grant].<br />
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I translated this information into a flier, these fliers were disseminated at all of the events I attended.<br />
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A key factor in all of my work, and of course in this residency, is allyship. Artists are nothing without allies in their audience: trans artists need to be seen and supported by allies as well for our work (and our issues) to be valued. Drag shows are only so much fun because of audiences that include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and straight allies; I want to take all the fun of a drag show and infuse it with useful, community-building information through storytelling. Much of this pre-residency was spent drumming up interest among would-be performers and speakers, however the overarching goal is to outreach to communities of allies, whether they be other artists, family members, friends, or people who just happened to read the paper and want to know more about this “transgender thing”.<br />
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I began this work on Tuesday by attending Puro Slam, San Antonio's most noted (and notorious) poetry slam. I participated in the slam using moments from “Underground Transit”, my first solo show that is written in slam poetry style. The only openly queer, non-(biologically) male performer, I made it to the final round—only to be knocked out by a judge who insisted on scoring my work “6.9” every time, decreasing my final average. I plugged the show and made friends with two local performers: [name], who is on the National Slam Team for San Antonio, and [name] who does improv comedy. Both agreed to help promote the show in May, and may participate in the performance workshop for people of all genders. As a promotional activity, I am looking into headlining the May slam, which is populated mostly by Latino and Black men who love poetry no matter who's performing it, when I return to town.<br />
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Thursday is Drag Night in San Antonio; Company Artistic Director S.T. Shimi and I hit local gay and lesbian bars in full promotional form. We handed out fliers for the show and workshop, then met up with company members Monessa and Annelle for what became a singular experience, for me, as a connoisseur of drag. <br />
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I learned that San Antonio's drag scene is largely composed of transsexual artists, not artists who do not identify as transgender outside of the performance space (as is the case in many locales around the country). This means that the artists use hormones and/or have had gender-affirming surgery. This difference translates to performance which becomes, more seriously, about the body and the moves than about a campy performance of “someone else's” gender (which is differently valuable). It also makes for a lot more nudity! The performances I saw at The Saint were phenomenal—technically masterful dance pieces that exuded a sense of pleasure in the body of the performer (for him or herself). To be able to watch a transperson rock out and be sexy, and truly, un-self-consciously enjoy themselves felt like liberation to me, and was fun as hell. <br />
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I met a number of the artists that night, including the host, Erica Andrews. Andrews is San Antonio's most well-known drag queen. She expressed interest in participating in the Jump-Start program: the trick will be whether her busy schedule will allow it, and whether we can pay her enough to make missing a Saturday night of drag performance financially worthwhile to her. I also met a group of allies who call themselves The FeministDykeBitches; this group is organizing a pro-choice benefit outreaching to trans communities along common lines of sexual health and our mutual desire for freedom of choice when it comes to our bodies. They are spreading the word to other performers, and will hopefully participate in some aspect of the residency. <br />
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Another element to San Antonio's drag culture is its majority of artists of color. Too often, drag troupes and events such as “Words Can't Describe” are white-dominated, which leaves out entire communities of performers and the stories that come with them. Visibility is key for transpeople, so drag shows that exclude (for whatever reasons) artists of color do serious damage to the perception of who is and is not trans, who can or will not do drag. Such exclusion is usually a symptom of racially-divided communities at-large, but I feel it most acutely in drag events that would be so much better with a plurality of experience and participants. San Antonio's multi-cultural reality makes my goal of integrated performance truly possible—in fact, producing an all-white event here would be thankfully impossible!<br />
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On Friday, I traveled to Austin for the serendipitous 4th Anniversary of Kings'N'Things, Austin's premier drag king troupe (KNT). The group is predominantly white, however actively anti-racist (I observed through interactions and conversations among the Kings'N'Things). There were no transwomen performers in Austin, but biologically-female, “femme” performers did have an important presence. Another difference between the cities was academic: I observed a lot of gender theory and philosophy involved in the Austin performances—not so much about the body and the moves, but about word-play, sex humor, and camp. While the San Antonio Queens and Kings choreographed to pop ballads, the Kings'N'Things made elaborate skits out of such songs as “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” and “Whatever Lola Wants”. Hey, different strokes—both shows were fantastic, and if these communities come together for “Words Can't Describe”, the audience will benefit from a huge variety of well-executed work. <br />
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I brunched with members of KNT, who were very excited about the Jump-Start performance. Austin is slated to hold the 8th Annual International Drag KingCommunity Extravaganza (IDKE). Working with regional artists will strengthen their existing networking goals; given that this is the first IDKE to be held in the South, a strong Texas presence, hopefully encouraged at Words Can't Describe, will do much to promote the visibility of artists from outside the major urban drag centers. KNT agreed to promote the Jump-Start show around Austin and in their various web communities, and at least two of them will participate in the discussion and performance.<br />
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The next morning I brunched again—in keeping with our hope for a Drag Brunch during the Jump-Start residency! This time I met with Skot, an ex-member of the San Antonio Kings and founder of King'N'Play, an offshoot group of the San Antonio Kings. Skot will present a skit about bathroom problems and politics during the residency. Skot also connected me to Matthew Devreaux and Erik LaRue, with whom I have since been in touch; all three artists will promote and present for the Jump-Start showcase and discussion. <br />
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Further Goals<br />
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1.Connect with Houston performers and activists. Sixto Wagan of DiverseWorks is helping to spread the word via his contacts in the community, including HATCH (Houston Area Teen Coalition of Homosexuals).<br />
2.Get commitments from performers and activists already solicited and organize the events according to the participants. <br />
3.Promote! Promote! Promote!</div>
Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-1145663918525366762006-04-21T19:26:00.000-04:002012-08-24T18:34:05.884-04:00On the Road from Austin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A convergence of events leads me to write, finally: today I saw a comic strip where the character said "I'd hate to have you waste perfectly good blog material by actually talking"; I am also in Austin, a city totally un-wired, that is, wireless. Free. For everyone. So I have no excuse.<br />
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I'm here to "network", in the least icky way possible, with the fabulous Drag Kings and other performer types. Today marks the 4th anniversary of Kings N Things, Austin's premier drag troup. Check em out at www.kingsnthings.org. I'm stoked to see what these boys have to offer, having just had my mind blown last night by the small but excellent Alamo Kings troupe in San Antonio. They performed with a larger group of "female impressionists", as their godmother, Erica Andrews, called them. (See her at www.simplyerica.com). I'll compare and contrast later tonight, after I see what these Austin Kings get up to. Ah, sweet antici<br />
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I'm here in the state of my birth to do my very first pro-theater show (in Texas), presented by Jump-Start Performance Company. I met the fabulous Steve Bailey, superb S.T. Shimi, and most holy Lisa Suarez in 2003 at the Alternate Roots Annual Conference. I performed "Underground Transit" for them, and we've been trying to figure out a way to collaborate ever since. Finally, the National Performance Network supported us in that endeavor. Hooray! <br />
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This week I've been meeting with local area folks, spreading the word about my performance ("Debutante Balls," May 26th & 27th), and trying to build up interest in the "Words Can't Describe" event we'll be hosting as part of my residency. I want to work with San Antonio gender performers of any stripe (but especially FTM/drag-king types, since the community here has little visbility), and we're hoping to make it a community-building effort for Houston-Austin-San Anontio regional performers (and activists...but those lines are so often so cross-hatched...). Yay space! Yay support! Yay gender! Yay politics as aesthetics and aesthetics as politics!!! <br />
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Ahem. I just hope that folks will come out and play...and then keep on keepin' on together.<br />
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I'm doing basically the same work in the very different community-locale of Seattle, WA, presented by the Pat Graney Company. That'll be May 17th and 19th at Richard Hugo House. <br />
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Here's the second part, at both venues, that I'm very excited about:<br />
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"Scott Turner Schofield | National Performance Network Residency | Trans-Ally Community Forum<br />
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Who: Transgender people of any identity or orientation (eg, people who in any form of language or philosophy identify with the word/concept/identity “Transgender”); People who share community with Transgender people; Allies to Transgender people; People who want to learn more.<br />
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What: The Trans-Ally Community Forum is a forum that privileges storytelling over rhetoric, and everyday issues over philosophical questions of identity. A diverse panel will be invited to tell short stories about their lives as transgender people, friends, family, lovers, allies, onlookers and bystanders to transgender communities in [$town$]. This will serve as a model for how the rest of the dialog will take place: participants (not the panelists) will then share their own short stories so that everyone in attendance will take home an idea of the realities of our intersecting communities, here and now. <br />
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This forum does not allow critique—no rhetoric, theory, or “calling out” of any “isms” that may be inherent in a person's story. Will will listen radically to one another, and listen to our own internal responses. In so doing, we will see where we stand, understand our issues and, hopefully, each others' intents. We can take this knowledge into further community work outside of this conversation, but here, we tell our stories, and listen to one another.<br />
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Why: Too often, communities get caught up in and divided by our own identities and our expression of them. Further, language and access to rhetoric defining what is or is not acceptable to progressive and/or “subversive” communities silences us, for fear we will offend or show ourselves up as imperfectly defined and/or executed. Sometimes, we need to just be who we are, think what we think, find community, and learn without fear of alienating others/isolating ourselves. Sometimes, we just need to take our own pulse, and listen to those of the people around us. The Trans-Ally Community Forum seeks to model a way of doing this, aims to create a space where, for just two hours, we can be individuals in community who are, or care about, or want to learn more about Transgender people. "<br />
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I feel like this event is a coalescing of so much thought and desire for action on my part. It's about storytelling; it's about being who you really are, imperfectly, in the community where you live; it's about listening and really hearing, without letting whatever axe you have to grind dull your empathy or your progressive learning. I hope that the people who end up participating will be able to work with that intention.<br />
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I have been so frustrated, lately, by people who would rather find the oppression in every sentence than the liberation in the expression of an ideal. Easy for this straight white guy to say, right? Except that I notice it more now that I'm a straight white guy who looks like all of those things. I'm still a radical feminist. I'm still the same person who was moved and educated and inspired to action by class-conscious, anti-racist, pro-choice queer nationalists (well...not all in the same person, but you get what I mean...). I'm fully aware that I need to be vigilant around the privileges suddenly being handed to me...but that's the thing. I know. And too many folks I meet these days don't trust that I know, because of the way my gender and race fit together now. It's a peculiar form of prejudice--one that I know I too have committed against white straight men in my life (before I became one). The downside to transition, eh? Hm. <br />
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Off now to see D'Lo perform "Ramble-Ations": A One D'Lo Show, at ALLGO -- the country's only statewide queer people of color organization (www.allgo.org). Again with the excited anticipation!</div>
Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-1142819881981366362006-03-19T20:38:00.000-05:002012-08-24T18:39:14.006-04:00Creative Loafing Cover Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I made the cover of Atlanta's Creative Loafing magazine--the free weekly paper that bills itself as "Shelter from the Mainstream". Curt Holman, Atlanta's finest theater critic (in my opinion, and that of most of my actor friends), wrote a very sensitive, positive, and informational story about my transition, both from female to male and as a performer. <br />
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I used to joke that all of Atlanta has seen my tits. Now, without hyperbole, I can say that all of Atlanta knows what's in my pants (and under my shirt). <br />
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It has been fun and a little horrifying, carrying out my daily routine since the story dropped on Wednesday. Today I dined at my regular spot, the Radial Cafe, only to see my face on every table right next to plates of pancakes and scrambled eggs. I got a lot of looks--curious, supportive. My friend Shane and I next hit JavaMonkey in Decatur where a high school student from 7 Stages' summer program gave me the heartthrob mob treatment, causing everybody in the place to look over and wonder what was going on. The only part I found funny was that I turned a completely new and different shade of red. Everybody else thought the incident was HILARIOUS. Go ahead. Laugh it up ;-)<br />
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But the best part--aside from my story being treated very respectfully by Creative Loafing (factual, unopinionated, and semantically correct press for trannies is still woefully rare)--was a conversation I just had out at a community dinner. A friend who I don't know too well, but like very much (he generously loans me fun tools for projects and is just generally a very nice guy) told me he read the story, twice, Letter To The Editor Pen at the ready to defend me lest I fall victim to disrespectful press. This from a family guy who has patiently seen me through several less-than-manly predicaments with all manner of (his) power tools...it's enough to make a trannyboy tear up! (If I could. The hormones currently make crying impossible.) <br />
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I guess this is a blog to mark a very lucky moment in my life. I feel honored that my story and my work caught CL's attention, and very happy that they were so ethical and respectful with their portrayal. I am stoked that more people will be educated--I hope that they look into the lives of other transfolks for even more insight. And I just feel loved. <br />
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I'm going to sit with this feeling for a second more, and then I'm going to send it out to my trans friends everywhere, alive and dead. One more drop in what I hope is a fast-filling bucket of compassion and educated understanding.<br />
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Here's the article, which you can also find <a href="http://clatl.com/atlanta/i-changed-my-sex-now-what/Content?oid=1256582" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<b>Signs Scott Turner Schofield is a man:</b></div>
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He looks, dresses and sounds like a man.</div>
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He has a masculine name.</div>
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He's prone to let the dirty dishes pile up.</div>
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He uses the men's room.</div>
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At fox-trot lessons, he leads.</div>
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He goes by "he."</div>
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<b>Signs Scott Turner Schofield isn't a man:</b></div>
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He was almost voted homecoming queen in high school.</div>
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On his driver's license, below "sex" it says "F."</div>
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He grew up with the name "Katie Lauren Kilborn."</div>
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He used to be a lesbian.</div>
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Until about two years ago, he went by "she."</div>
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Even when their appearance doesn't match their anatomy, transgender people don't view "passing" as deception. They think they're presenting an honest front. It's who they are. Anything to the contrary is a genetic mix-up.</div>
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As an Emory sophomore a few years back, Katie Kilborn came home to Charlotte for Thanksgiving break. She and her mother went to see <i>Meet the Parents</i>. Katie took a break from the Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro antics to go to the restroom.</div>
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"This is the ladies room!" a fortyish woman called out to the lanky person with short-cropped hair wearing track pants and a hoodie sweatshirt. When Katie came out of the stall, the angry woman blocked her way and repeated the warning. So Katie lifted her sweatshirt, showed her breasts.</div>
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"I <i>am</i> a woman," she said.</div>
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"You dyke!" the lady responded as she struck Katie across the face with a purse. The metal zipper drew blood.</div>
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"I went back to my seat," she recalls, "and told my mother that I'd walked into a door -- sort of like an abused wife."</div>
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For a while, Katie stopped using public restrooms.</div>
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About a year-and-a-half later, at the Lenox Square movie theater, she really had to go. By that time, she was calling herself the more androgynous "Kt," but she tried to head off another confrontation by using feminine body language and speaking in the highest register possible. While in the stall, however, Kt overheard a woman say, "Why is there a gay man in the bathroom?"</div>
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When she finally ventured into a men's room in 2004, at yet another movie theater, she considered herself a man. Scott Turner Schofield stepped through the door, stared with shock at its unsanitary conditions and wondered, "Is this what the rest of my life will be like?"</div>
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It's hard to know which pronouns to use at different stages of Turner's life.</div>
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In college, she'd gradually adopted a more gender-neutral "trans" persona. In addition to calling herself Kt (pronounced like "K.T."), she began to keep her pronouns unspecific. Kt, who'd graduated in 2002, even used her evolution from woman to man as raw material for her honors thesis, a one-person show called Underground TRANSit.</div>
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She spent the summer of 2004 as head counselor at La Vida del Corazon, an arts-oriented camp in Costa Rica. American teens enrolled at the camp would ask her, "You're a woman, right?" But dressed casually in a T-shirt and khaki shorts as she strolled through the town of 72 people, she passed perfectly.</div>
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"Nobody could even fathom that I was a woman," she says. "People would say, 'Hey, buddy!' to me on the street."</div>
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In the camp, Kt was supposed to be a role model. She taught kids about self-confidence and integrity, about believing in themselves. That forced her to make a commitment: If she was serious about being true to herself, she'd have to be truer to himself.</div>
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In the States, she told friends to call her Scott Turner Schofield. They took the adjustment in stride. "They changed my name in their cell phones, so immediately they were like, 'Hey, Turner!'"</div>
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For his mother, it wasn't so easy.</div>
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"I'd gotten used to him being a homosexual, but this was a great shock," Margaret Dickson recalls in a phone conversation from West Chester, Pa. Since before the Costa Rica trip, Kt had been talking with her mother about being transgender. She'd dropped hints about impending changes. "For parents, there's a fear of your child coming out as transgender will make him a social outcast, so I tried to dissuade him."</div>
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When Kt drove her mother from Houston to San Antonio over Christmas 2004, it finally sank in that soon, her son, "Turner," would replace her daughter, "Katie." "I was angry. It wasn't fair -- he was robbing me of my daughter. I didn't want to lose those memories of her childhood as a girl."</div>
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Dickson had given birth to Katie in San Antonio in 1980. Her only daughter wasn't always a typical girl.</div>
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Dickson recalls that Katie liked playing with boys and toys for boys. When the family was living in England and took a vacation in the Canary Islands, an 8-year-old Katie asked, "Mummy, can we please tell people that my name is Scott?"</div>
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As a young teenager, Katie gamely tried to be more "girly." She grew her hair long, padded her bra, read Teen and dated boys. She was voted onto her high school homecoming court, even after she'd come out to friends and family as a lesbian at 16.</div>
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In some childhood photos, she looks like a girl; in others, like a boy -- so much so that years later, a housekeeper assumed snapshots around the house depicted a pair of twins.</div>
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The night before Kt made "Scott" his legal name, mother and child had an argument in her parents' Texas home. "I remember being 10 years old," Kt told her mother in anger, "and looking at my vagina and thinking that you and Grandmom must have had a doctor remove my penis." Then, crying, she locked herself in her parents' guest room.</div>
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The next day, Scott Turner Schofield, newly "christened" at a courthouse in the Houston suburbs, returned to his mother's house. A long way from fully accepting her child's new identity, Dickson took a big step: She hugged her new son and said, "Happy birthday, Turner."</div>
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Dickson started using male pronouns out of respect for her child's wishes. Then, it became second nature to her. Her daughter may have changed, Dickson now reasons, but all children change as they grow older.</div>
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In Texas, Dickson and her second husband had told people they had a daughter. After they moved to Pennsylvania in 2005, they began telling strangers "We have a son." Recently Dickson met a woman who offered to pass along some dating advice. "Young women can be very manipulative. You tell him, 'Don't get her pregnant!'"</div>
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<b>Turner's lesbian lover broke up with him after he changed his name.</b></div>
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"If you're a man, that means I'm not a lesbian anymore," she told him.</div>
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"Who am I going to date?" Turner wondered. "Will I be so convincing that I can date straight women? If I date lesbians, how will that work for both of us?"</div>
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As a gay woman, Kt never felt she entirely fit. She'd gone through "a granola, homeopathic, Earth-mother lesbian" phase in college. But she always felt like the frat boy at the slumber party. "I was there, but I didn't belong."</div>
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As he grew more male, Turner sensed that he started getting the cold shoulder from feminist and lesbian organizations."</div>
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Radical feminism is like the equivalent of the good ol' boys club, and they can be very conservative about who they let in. Nobody's said anything, but there's been a kind of pulling-away, an unspoken message of 'You can't come into our space.'"</div>
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He began going out with straight women. Since grade school, Kt had been attracted to ultra-feminine girls. In college, she'd try to seduce them. "I enjoyed queering the dating pool. At the time, I was pretty androgynous, and boyish lesbians are considered the 'gateway drug.'"</div>
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Turner denies he has a "type," but he admits some friends have a theory for his attraction to feminine women -- "Yeah, that makes you way more of a dude when you've got a hot chick on your arm."</div>
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To become more of a dude, Turner embarked on a do-it-yourself sex change regimen. He researched gender alteration online and purchased a supply of his first steroid, Andro-D Gel, from a body-building website in December 2004. Steroids such as Andro-D Gel encourage the human body to produce more natural testosterone and are best known for bulking up such baseball players as Mark McGwire before Congress declared andro-infused dietary supplements controlled substances in January 2005.</div>
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During his potentially illegal gender modification, Turner rubbed two tablespoons a day on his inner wrists and the backs of his knees. "I noticed weight gain through muscle mass, a little bit of a voice drop and general horniness -- the typical steroid response," he recalls. But the effects were more subtle than he'd wanted. "I guess that it plateaued after a while. My voice never really changed, and I always felt like my voice was really wrong, which is why I was desperate to go on testosterone."</div>
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To go further, Turner had to convince a physician to sign off on injections of testosterone, a more heavy-duty hormone. That meant pelvic exams, blood tests and providing a psychologist to identify him as having "gender identity disorder." He describes the diagnosis this way: "It basically means that I'm crazy, and the only way a doctor can treat my illness is to help me change my gender."</div>
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Finally, last October, Turner began injecting testosterone cypionate every other week. His muscle mass changed much more rapidly. His shape moved from a female's hourglass to a male's V. "I felt like a lava lamp," he says.</div>
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More body hair. More acne. More confidence. In two weeks, his voice dropped an octave.</div>
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"I woke up one morning, tried to talk and was like, 'AaAaAaAa,' he says, as if, at long last, he was experiencing puberty from a teenage boy's point of view.</div>
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That tall, boyish gal gave way to a slender, faintly girlish guy -- a bohemian version of the wholesome boy-next-door. And once the hormonal factor was out of the way, being a man became less about equipment and more about attitude.</div>
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Turner was so satisfied with his new voice that he even gave up donning his "soft pack," the convincing artificial penis he sometimes wore beneath his underwear. "They even have ones you can pee through, but I've never been able to pee standing up. Before I went on testosterone, I'd sometimes put on my soft pack when I went out -- if anyone was looking, I'd have the right bulge in my pants. After testosterone, I was like, 'Fuck that.'"</div>
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Turner now likens passing to an acting exercise -- learning to master such regular-guy gestures as "that chin-forward head-nod" to other men in public. He's even able to mingle with cowboys without raising eyebrows.</div>
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During a January visit to the University of Wyoming at Laramie, he went out one night with a group of young men and women to a cowboy bar. "These cowboys there would talk to me, but just sort of look right through the women. Or they'd look at the women, then give me a nod like, 'Git 'r done!'"</div>
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<b>Bad dreams accompanied the testosterone. In one, his uterus fell into his hands and he wanted it back inside.</b></div>
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The anxiety has a real-world corollary. Testosterone's side effects could cause him to need a hysterectomy. Turner claims to have no second thoughts about his transformation, but sometimes considers the costs of sacrificing his womanhood, like the loss of his soft, feminine skin.</div>
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His new gender comes with trade-offs. He stopped menstruating four weeks after injecting testosterone, but now has to shave his facial hair. "Forced to choose between a period and having to razor my face regularly -- with razors that cost way more than tampons -- I don't know. OK, I do prefer shaving but still, it sucks."</div>
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Testosterone also will cause his vocal chords to lengthen permanently. Turner insists that "this is an OK voice to have as a woman" should he ever want to change back.</div>
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He seems to miss being androgynous more than being feminine. On his right arm, he has a tattoo of one of the Janus-faced, ambisexual animated characters from <i>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</i>, and at times, he's made the ambiguity of his gender an explicit part of his art. You get a sense that he finds being a man less exotic than being a mysterious individual who transcends rigid social constructs, and keeps a foot in both camps.</div>
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His change has created problems for Underground TRANSit, the one-person show he developed as an honors thesis. He's performed Underground TRANSit at playhouses, college campuses and performing arts festivals across the country. It describes his coming to terms with his own identity and the slippery concepts of sex and gender, with a recurring metaphor of the New York subway system. Elements of striptease extend throughout the show: In front of his audience, Turner changes from a long, feminine skirt to sharkskin suit, "skater boy" duds, and even down to leopard-print briefs and a glimpse of small, unbound breasts.</div>
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Before the testosterone injections, Turner seemed more like a chameleon, with his gender matching his outfits. The first line of Underground TRANSit is, "Would you believe I was almost homecoming queen in high school?" And it worked, because you could believe it.</div>
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Turner admits that now he looks much more like a guy wearing a skirt. "Some people think I'm a male-to-female trans now, so when I ask the opening question, they think, 'Yeah, in some kind of alternate universe where drag queens get on the homecoming court.'"</div>
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Turner's transformation contains an element of Murphy's Law. He's pleased with his lower voice and more masculine frame. But, he acknowledges, "It might fuck up my performance career. For acting purposes, I want to bring an audience along with me."</div>
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Now, he's trying to decide how much he needs to overhaul Underground TRANSit, or whether he should retire it altogether. And Turner takes classes so he can still have the freedom to speak in a higher register as a performer -- just as male-to-female transsexuals take lessons to sound feminine more convincingly.</div>
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In the Atlanta-based independent short film Bad Witness, he's playing an androgynous lesbian love-interest role. He may even stop the testosterone injections for eight weeks to appear less masculine for the shoot.</div>
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Turner met his current girlfriend while playing a lesbian drag king in the gender-bending comedy Wizzer Pizzer at 7 Stages last May. Atlanta actress Alison Hastings and Turner hit it off quickly. Going out, they say, felt natural to them. Hastings has dated both men and women. "My dad says I'm 'homoflexible,'" she quips.</div>
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Hastings says she might have found it more difficult to date a transsexual man who had more trouble passing, but that's not a problem in her relationship with Turner. "To most of the world," she says, "Turner and I are a straight couple -- and we are."</div>
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Once, she admits, she slipped and called Turner "she." Before Turner began the injections, the pair were out at a show at Actor's Express, where Turner wasn't feeling well. After a friend asked if he was all right, Hastings recalls, "I said, 'Yes, she's just having her period.' It's very strange when your boyfriend is having a period."</div>
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Hastings helps enhance Turner's manhood not just socially, but biologically. By himself, Turner has a great deal of difficulty inserting the 1.5-inch needle intramuscularly into his buttock, but Hastings has happily taken over the job. "When I tell my friends about it, I say, 'I'm making a man.' It's kind of a joke, but it's also true."</div>
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Turner has become something of a transgender ambassador. He serves as Exhibit A during lectures to college classes and post-performance Q&As.</div>
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"His art makes people feel challenged, but also invited," Emory theater professor Vinnie Murphy says of his protégé. "Boy, do people feel free to open up after his shows."</div>
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In an effort to make transgender people more visible and better understood, Turner maintains a personal full-disclosure policy. He tells college classes, "You can ask me anything. You can ask me how I have sex." The hands immediately go up. "How do you have sex?"</div>
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But he also finds himself having to educate people in transsexual etiquette. "It's not OK to just ask a transsexual, 'Have you had surgery?' or 'What do your genitals look like?' You can talk to me about those things, but other people won't react the same way. Sometimes they ask me that question and I feel like asking, 'Well, what do your genitals look like?'"</div>
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So far, Turner doesn't want to take the physical refinements any further. He's considered upper-body surgery, but finds his chest is flattening as he works out. He has neither the interest nor the money to undergo phalloplasty or procedures to create male genitalia. (For some reason, he's less than thrilled about having surgeons cut open his labia and insert silicone balls to make them resemble testes.)</div>
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"Medical science has progressed a lot further with male-to-female surgery than female-to-male," he notes. "They can make a great scrotum but not a very good functioning penis. The Kia of penises starts at upwards of $25,000, but if you want to donate nerves from your arm, it's up to $70,000."</div>
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Legally, he's still a woman. To change gender on one's Social Security record, the federal government requires a physician's letter that states sex reassignment surgery has been completed. "I'm a lucky trans person in that I don't feel like my body is wrong. But most trans people don't feel that way."</div>
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Turner continues to use his body as raw material in his art. He may have to alter or abandon earlier pieces, like Underground TRANSit, but he'll have new discoveries to impart. Currently, he's writing a book about his changes called Becoming a Man in 127 Steps. He'll perform excerpts from it and his earlier work at Emory on March 22 -- ironically, in an appearance cosponsored by the Center for Women at Emory for Women's History Month.</div>
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As an artist who tours often, Turner doesn't expect to have the short-term flexibility or the financial means to settle down and establish a family in the "normal" way. "Getting married might be a problem, unless I go to Massachusetts and have a gay marriage. I was born in Texas, and you can't change your gender on your birth certificate there. So I can't get into the straight club all the way."</div>
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"I'm not sure what my future is going to look like," he acknowledges. "In some respects, I think I'll always be in transition. As an actor, will I get male roles, or will people always want to cast me as trans guys, or women who are hot in a masculine way? Would I trade the really fun part of being trans and getting people to think differently, just to be a normal guy? The value of that is not to be underestimated."</div>
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Feeling at ease in his male identity, Turner continually wonders just what kind of man he's becoming. "You'd think that if I became a man, I'd bulk up and go all out. But it turns out I'm sort of this metrosexual pansy -- what the hell is that?"</div>
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Maybe it reflects Turner's confidence that he doesn't have to conform to anyone else's idea of manhood. But does Turner's new self-assurance come from being a man, or does it derive from being true to himself, no matter what gender he is?</div>
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Either way, he now goes to the men's room without self-consciousness. "If someone starts looking at me, I can always use homophobia to my advantage: 'What are <i>you</i> looking at?'"</div>
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<i>Listen to and speak with Scott Turner Schofield when he's a guest on "Air Loaf," CL's talk-radio show, 10 a.m. Saturday on WWAA-AM (1690) Air Atlanta. Schofield performs parts of Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps Wed., March 22, 7 p.m., at Harris Parlour, Harris Hall, 1340 Clifton Road. Free. 404-727-2000. <a href="http://www.womenscenter.emory.edu/" style="color: black;">www.womenscenter.emory.edu</a>. Find out more about Underground TRANSit at<a href="http://www.undergroundtransit.com/" style="color: black;">www.undergroundtransit.com</a>.</i></div>
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Scott Turner Schofieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12935992396913716548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146029.post-1117760050650874552005-06-02T20:51:00.000-04:002012-08-24T18:40:11.242-04:00FRESH MEAT 2005<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<strong>FRESH MEAT 2005<br /><em>4th Annual Festival of Transgender and Queer Performance</em></strong> <br />
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Dates/times: <strong>June 16-18, 2005<br /> ** NOTE: TWO SHOWS SATURDAY NIGHT! **<br /> Thurs June 18: 8pm show<br /> Friday June 19: 8pm show<br /> Sat June 18: 7:30pm AND 9:30pm shows</strong><br />
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Location: <strong>ODC Theater (3153 17th Street @ Shotwell, SF)</strong><br />
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Tickets: <strong>$15 </strong>(advance tickets recommended – this show sells out!)<br />
<strong>415-863-9834 or www.ticketweb.com</strong><br />
Info: <a href="http://www.freshmeatproductions.org/">www.freshmeatproductions.org</a><br />
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“fierce and fine tuned … history in the making” (Bay Area Reporter)<br />
”outstanding, joyful, irreverent” (Critical Dance)<br />
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It’s coming…our biggest event of the year! Fresh Meat is an annual festival of outstanding transgender and queer performance – a sell-out, high energy, deeply moving, outrageously sexy, history-making gathering of exceptionally talented transgender and queer artists from across the nation.<br />
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Hear tales about coming out tranny at a Deep South Debutante Ball; experience the infectious harmony of the world’s first transgender barbershop quartet; witness some of the world’s first trans-themed modern dance; pulse with the throbbing beats of homo hip hop and tranny glam rock; hear intersex and transsexual perspectives on the body and intimacy; and be exhilarated by gender-bending, gravity-defying trapeze.<br />
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Fresh Meat 2005 artists include: Miguel Chernus-Goldstein, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Sean Dorsey and Mair Culbreth, Harlem Shake Burlesque, Thea Hillman and Johnnie Pratt, Lipstick Conspiracy, Jaycub Perez and Katastrophe, Scott Turner Schofield, Emcee Sile “Luster” Singleton, Sisterz of the Underground, The TransAMS Barbershop Quartet, The Viragos and more! <br />
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<strong>These shows will SELL OUT so get your tickets in advance! </strong><br />
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<em>Fresh Meat 2005 is a featured presentation of the National Queer Arts Festival <br />and is an official Pride 2005 event.</em></div>
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