About.
Trans [Plays] of Remembrance Short Play Festival was founded as part of the Ohio University Trans Awareness Week & the Trans Day of Remembrance and directed by Jo Michael Rezes on HowlRound.TV. Submissions are open to trans playwrights/poets and performers around the world right now. After the submission deadline, three nights of new work by trans artists for digital performance will be streamed. Each night will feature original work by a different set of trans writers/artists in a mix of short plays, spoken word, songs and performance art. Due to COVID-19 we will be presenting the festival as a digital platform this year. But we hope in the future to offer live performances by trans* writers, performed and directed by trans artists and theater-makers. Curation will ensure that performances will fit the theme of The Transgender Day of Remembrance, but that doesn’t mean they need to be sad or somber; we are encouraging anyone submitting to consider creating work that celebrates and remembers life not only in the past, but in the present and future as well.
Trans [Plays] of Remembrance Festival, was originally sponsored by the Ohio University Division of Diversity and Inclusion (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender and Women’s Centers), Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Tufts University LGBT Center, features three nights of short plays written by up-and-coming trans* playwrights and roundtable discussions with playwrights, actors, and community members.
Trans [Plays] of Remembrance Festival, was originally sponsored by the Ohio University Division of Diversity and Inclusion (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender and Women’s Centers), Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Tufts University LGBT Center, features three nights of short plays written by up-and-coming trans* playwrights and roundtable discussions with playwrights, actors, and community members.
Who are we?
At a Glance
Vintage Kovel (they/them/theirs) Assistant producer Vintage is a student of Theatre at Hollins University. They are an aspiring producer, an aspiring playwright, an aspiring lighting technician, an aspiring props designer, and an aspiring adult. They've worked on quite a few Hollins productions from behind the scenes and front of house, and they've been deeply involved in their home town's high school/college age community theater for 8 years now. They will try any theater production aspect at least once, and as yet, they haven't settled to one area, which they think is fine and fun 
J Woodward (they/them/theirs) Creator/Curator & DramaturG J is a queer playwright and is currently an undergraduate student at Ohio University pursuing a BFA in playwriting with Erik Ramsey, and a double minor in English and Film. While at OU, J has hosted and produced several nights of short plays through the Student Organization of Undergraduate Playwrights (SOUP). J mostly writes bizarre plays with themes of identity and people’s relationships to both the world and others. |
Katie Coleman (she/her/hers) Festival Director Katie is a playwright, composer, and director in Chicago. Her work has been produced or developed at Mill Mountain Theatre, Rising Sun Performance Company, Tesseract Theatre Company, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Southeast Theatre Conference, Rose of Athens Theatre, Auburn University, and The New Colony. She was anthologized in The Best American Festival Plays 2015, and has published short plays with YOUTHPlays. She has an MFA in Playwriting from the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University. 
Lauren B. Ellis (she/her) stage manager Lauren Brooke Ellis is a playwright, director, and stage manager who has devoted a significant amount of time in recent years to the development of new plays, most notably as the award-winning director of She Made Space by Meredith Dayna Levy, Community Garden by Ben Jolivet, and Arachnothology by Kimberly Patterson. She is currently faculty at Hollins University, visiting faculty at Washington and Lee University, and is the Chair of Playwriting for SETC. |
Wendy-Marie Martin (she/her/hers) Festival producer Wendy-Marie is a playwright, dramaturg, director, and theatre educator who has spent over twenty-five years making theatre in Germany and the U.S. Her plays have been produced in Germany, The Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Ireland, and the U.S and published by Smith & Krauss, Theatrefolk, and YouthPLAYS. Wendy-Marie has an MFA in Playwriting from the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University and is currently working on her PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts/Theatre at Ohio University. Come July, she will also begin a new chapter as Chair of the Undergraduate Theater Department at Hollins University. |
