Thesis on Joan

Maybe Burke has been all over your TV this pandemic! In our third episode of the season, Meghan and Harrow sit down with the award-winning actor, writer and human rights advocate! We talk about the many ways to identify as a theatre-maker, the dangers of producers auditioning trans actors to “check a box,”, the glamours of screen work (umbrella PAs?), why this is now a Victor Garber stan podcast, how we all wish theater was better to us, shutting up and listening in order to be an advocate, and why some of our favorite musical theater characters should be trans! Meghan and Harrow give updates on their pups and discuss the Women’s Project Theater, in collaboration with Red Bull Theater, production of GALATEA by MJ Kaufman and directed by Will Davis. Maybe Burke:  Website Instagram Twitter GALATEA Show Information MJ Kaufman Action of the Ep NYC Community Fridges Queer Culture Rec: Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Surpassing Certainty by Janet Mock Janet Mock’s Website Queer Gives: The Transgender Training Insitute Learn More Donate - Website Upcoming Webinars Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com You can find a full transcript of this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Critic and cheerleader, Jose Solís chats it out with hosts Harrow and Meghan this week! A critic at the age of 16, Jose shares how to become an authority on things we’re “not allowed” to be a part of and why he has his matches ready (fuck the Tonys). By creating the BIPOC Critics Lab and Token Theatre Friends podcast, Jose works to disrupt the white supremacist structure in criticism, queer the relationship between artists and critics, remove barriers, and teach critics how to start conversations, not end them. Harrow and Meghan also discuss the last shows they saw in person, what they’re looking forward to with theatre returning, and Parity Production’s 2019 Parity Commission winner, CERCLE HERMAPHRODITOS by Shualee Cook, directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser. Show Discussion: CERCLE HERMAPHRODITOS by Shualee Cook, directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser Action of the Ep:  Red Canary Song Statement about Atlanta shooting Thread uplifting Atlanta shooting survivors and families' direct funding requests Jose Solís:  Twitter Instagram BIPOC Critics Lab  Token Theatre Friends Podcast Queer Culture Rec: Kylie Minogue - DISCO RuPaul’s Drag Race Queer Gives: Latino Equality Alliance Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com You can find a full transcript of this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back, queers! The incomparable L Morgan Lee is our first guest of Season Two! Join Harrow and Meghan as they talk to L Morgan about making space in developing projects, the Pulitzer situation, intersectional change, always being a student, the demands on musical theater actors, the genius of Michael John LaChiusa and searching for L Morgan’s personal George Seurat. In this episode we discuss the productions HI, ARE YOU SINGLE? By Ryan J. Haddad, directed by Laura Savia and Jess McLeod, and presented by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with IAMA Theatre Company. We also discuss THE BLACK QUEENS SCREEN TESTS written and directed by Jerome A. Parker, A Patterson Projects Workshop Production sponsored by the Tank NYC and produced in conjunction with Alan K. Schuster. L Morgan Lee:  Website Instagram Twitter HI, ARE YOU SINGLE? Show Information Ryan Haddad- Website THE BLACK QUEENS SCREEN TESTS Show Information Patterson Projects Inc- About Queer Culture Rec: Veneno Real Housewives Fate: The Winx Saga - Netflix Queer Gives: LEGACY: A BLACK QUEER PRODUCTION COLLECTIVE Donate - Website Learn More - Instagram Our Dogs! Business Indigo Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com You can find a full transcript of this episode through this link. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're (almost) back, queers! Season Two of Thesis on Joan premieres this month, March 2021! Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for our season finale episode in which we get to talk to the artist who coined the name for our podcast, writer and actor Lisa Kron! We discuss Lisa’s early artist days and the “living culture” of WOW Café as well as the origins and almost European tour of the Five Lesbian Brothers. This leads us to the importance and rarity of queer spaces, queer identity outside of the patriarchy, the incandescent and creative life of the subculture, and the sanctification of a chosen family. In our discussion of Fun Home, we get to hear excerpts from Lisa’s childhood diary and about the autograph line confessions at the Fun Home stage door. Lisa reflects on the intersection of art and activism and her family history in light of today’s political climate and provides some pre-election insight that’s still prescient to our presidential transition time. We leave you this season with the reminder, as Lisa says, of “our power to create the future.” Be powerful and keep it queer. Lisa Kron: Website Queer Culture Rec: AOC Sunrise Speech Gentleman Jack - HBO Great British Bake-Off (specifically Noel Fielding) - Netflix Taskmaster - Amazon, Youtube Queer Gives: Lesbian Herstory Archives Outright International  Georgia Senate Runoff Campaigns to Support: Jon Ossoff Raphael Warnock Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com You can view a transcript of this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our season one penultimate episode, hosts Meghan and Harrow talk with Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi. As a performance artist, author, educator, advocate, choreographer, priestess, speech writer, playwright, and healer, Lady Dane takes us through her teenage years creating cabarets and if you’re a fan of WAP, recommends some nasty songs from her Bad B Medley. She shares some past and upcoming projects and how she leverages her access to fight against white supremacy and ask for what she feels is necessary. Join her call to action of advocating for Black trans women and ask yourself who do you want to be and what do you want the place where you work to be? Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi: Website | Instagram | Twitter  Additional Mentions: Pull Up to The Bumper by Grace Jones Slow Tongue by Millie Jackson All the Way Lover by Millie Jackson Lady Dane’s books Long Wharf Theatre’s Black Trans Women at the Center Baltimore Center Stage Theatre Alliance Queer Culture Rec: P-Valley Lovecraft Country The Black Trans Prayer Book First gay marriage in Marvel First Gay Wedding in ‘Astonishing X-Men’ Queer Gives: For the Gworls The Okra Project Black Trans Travel Fund Marsha P. Johnson Institute Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com You can find a transcript of this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today our guest is none other than the interdimensional Aneesh Sheth! We talk to Aneesh about creating during quarantine, making Shakespeare accessible and relevant (and Bollywood infused, of course), inhabiting many roles as an artist, the magic of Fun Home (we didn’t bring it up, we swear!), trans folx in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what we really need to see when we talk varied representation and why your quarantine queer culture indulgence should be Aneesh’s new vlog!  Aneesh Sheth: Website | Twitter | Instagram Queer Culture Rec from Aneesh: The News! Stay Informed! Aneesh recommends CNN. Queer Gives: South Asians for Black Lives Matter- Instagram & Web Site Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective - Instagram & FB & Web Site Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com You can find a transcript of this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surprise! Join Harrow & Meghan on this special mini episode as they talk election hopes & fears and queer culture comfort. They’ll provide a quick fix of bisexual pirates, queer sci-fi, dog talk and road trip paranoia before tomorrow’s election. Get out and vote and we’ll be back on November 11th with our regularly scheduled programming with the incomparable Aneesh Sheth! Queer Culture Rec: Tik Tok Birates San Junipero - Netflix Black Mirror: Season 3 Episode 4 #HalloweenDog on Instagram Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts Meghan and Harrow keep it in the working family this week with Harrow's co-worker, Sulu LeoNimm, a Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (TONYC) Joker and Interim Executive Director, actor, director, and parent of 2 small kids. Hear about Sulu’s very serious start in drag performance that eventually led to an Asian musical mashup drag show in the back of straight bars. We get to dive into Peg-ass-us, a romantic sex-ed burlesque they created, performed, and toured with their real-life partner (and yes, it’s about what you think it’s about) and how their relationship with theatre has changed since becoming a parent. Learn more about TONYC, how they are shifting the nature of their work, how TONYC is different from other theatre companies, and how to approach administrative tasks with care, including the difference of getting something done right versus getting it done in a way that serves the needs of the people involved. Sulu LeoNimm: Twitter Theatre of the Oppressed NYC: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Additional Mentions: Ali Forney Center Hetrick-Martin Institute Augusto Boal - created Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) Paulo Frierie - works inspired TO Queer Gives: Trans Boxing - become a Patron to support their new space! Queer Culture Rec: Samuel Delaney Octavia Butler Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com You can find a transcript of this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On our most bookish episode yet Harrow and Meghan sit down with award-winning Black queer theatre maker and founder of Roots and River Productions, Azure D. Osborne-Lee! Join us as we chat Black sci-fi, sharing stories with family, being a weird kid, our queer night missed connection with Azure at their show Mirrors, the importance of paying artists, fat love interests, the emotional core of Worst Cooks in America and making big queer announcements at family gatherings. Azure explains why Shakespeare needs to take a back seat and why non-profit orgs should be putting their budgets where their mouth (mission statement) is! Azure D. Osborne-Lee: Website | Twitter | Instagram Queer Culture Rec from Azure: N.K. Jemisin Escape Pod Work Cooks in America Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Netflix Queer Gives: Roots and River Productions - donate and support! Take Action! Voting Dates - New York State (if out of NYS, please check local dates!) Oct 9th - Register to Vote Oct. 27th - Request Absentee Ballots Nov. 3rd - Postmarked Date, Return In Person If you are voting in NYS please vote for Biden/Harris under the Working Families Party so they can maintain their spot on the ballot in the future. Democratic Senate Candidates to Support in Close Races: Arizona: Mark Kelly South Carolina: Jaime Harrison Justice for Breonna Taylor: Donate to the Louisville Community Bail Fund Call: 502-574-7111 or 502-574-2111 - Louisville Police Department 502-696-5300 - Special Prosecutor State AG Daniel Cameron (502) 574-2003 - Mayor Greg Fischer (502) 564-2611 - Kentucky Gov. Andy Breshear (502) 574-2136 - Police Public Integrity Unit Demand: Immediately fire and revoke the pensions of the officers that murdered Breonna. Divest from LMPD and Invest in community building. Immediate resignation (or impeachment) of Mayor Greg Fisher. Metro Council ends use of force by Louisville Metro Police Department. Police shootings are gun violence. Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com You can find a transcript of this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices