I MADE A BOOK!
I've worked with Dr. Angela Farr Schiller and Dr. Lindsey Mantoan to compile The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, a first-of-its-kind anthology. We set out to gather eight trans plays by trans writers with trans characters; it's time for us to tell our own stories. Now, you can pick it up from Methuen / Bloomsbury! Learn more and order it here.
The full play listing, including mine, is as follows:
Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
how to clean your room by j. chavez
She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri
The Devils Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin
Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes
Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe
Crooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee
The full play listing, including mine, is as follows:
Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
how to clean your room by j. chavez
She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri
The Devils Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin
Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes
Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe
Crooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee
ABOUT LEANNA
Leanna Keyes is a playwright & producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She's does everything in theater other than dance, because no one wants to see that.
Her most well-known play is the post Roe v. Wade abortion romance family drama Doctor Voynich and Her Children, which you can find in The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays.
As a producer, she is known as the co-founder of Transcend Streaming, a bespoke fully live digital production company. Transcend's work has been featured in the New York Times. As theater increasingly returns to in-person performance, she has been heavily involved in streaming hybrid theater and events, archival recordings (especially of developmental work), and in-person technical theater.
She was a Playwright in Residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis during spring 2019. Valiant Theatre commissioned her in 2020, which resulted the premiere of Love Serving Love at their annual new works festival in January.
In Chicago, her short play You’re My Person premiered at the Violet Surprise Femmeslash Festival at Otherworld Theatre Company in August 2019. Her play Legal-Tender Loving Care was produced by Fuse Theatre in California in June 2019. In 2018, her play Doctor Voynich and Her Children received collegiate productions at Rhodes College and at Stanford University. Previously produced plays including God Herself Could Not Sink This Ship in 2014 and The Kilogram Play in 2013. She also co-wrote The Real World: Stanford with Olivia Haas, which was produced annually from 2015 to 2017.
Her plays have been studied at universities around the country, including Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, Rhodes College, Ohio University, Linfield University, the University of Kansas, and Western Carolina University. In 2017, her work was featured at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries.”
Leanna Keyes is a playwright & producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She's does everything in theater other than dance, because no one wants to see that.
Her most well-known play is the post Roe v. Wade abortion romance family drama Doctor Voynich and Her Children, which you can find in The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays.
As a producer, she is known as the co-founder of Transcend Streaming, a bespoke fully live digital production company. Transcend's work has been featured in the New York Times. As theater increasingly returns to in-person performance, she has been heavily involved in streaming hybrid theater and events, archival recordings (especially of developmental work), and in-person technical theater.
She was a Playwright in Residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis during spring 2019. Valiant Theatre commissioned her in 2020, which resulted the premiere of Love Serving Love at their annual new works festival in January.
In Chicago, her short play You’re My Person premiered at the Violet Surprise Femmeslash Festival at Otherworld Theatre Company in August 2019. Her play Legal-Tender Loving Care was produced by Fuse Theatre in California in June 2019. In 2018, her play Doctor Voynich and Her Children received collegiate productions at Rhodes College and at Stanford University. Previously produced plays including God Herself Could Not Sink This Ship in 2014 and The Kilogram Play in 2013. She also co-wrote The Real World: Stanford with Olivia Haas, which was produced annually from 2015 to 2017.
Her plays have been studied at universities around the country, including Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, Rhodes College, Ohio University, Linfield University, the University of Kansas, and Western Carolina University. In 2017, her work was featured at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries.”
PRODUCING
To learn about my fully live digital production company, please visit Transcend Streaming.
To learn about my fully live digital production company, please visit Transcend Streaming.
