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FIFTY KEY FIGURES IN QUEER US THEATRE Whether creating Broadway musicals, experimental dramas, or outrageous comedies, the performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers profiled in this collection have contributed to the representation of LGBTQ lives and culture in a variety of theatrical venues, both within the queer community and across the US theatrical landscape. Moving from the era of the Stonewall Riots to today, notable scholars in the field bring a wide variety of queer theatre artists into conversation with each other, exploring connections and differences in race, gender, physical ability, national origin, class, generation, aesthetic modes, and political goals, creating a diverse and inclusive study of 50 years of queer theatre. For readers seeking an introduction to or a deeper understanding of LGBTQ theatre, this volume offers thought-provoking analyses of theatre-makers both celebrated and lesser-known, mainstream and subversive, canonical and new. Jimmy A. Noriega is Professor of Theatre at the College of Wooster and President of the American Society for Theatre Research. He is the co-editor of Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas (2008), and the founder of Teatro Travieso/ Troublemaker Theatre. Jordan Schildcrout is Professor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase and author of In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays (Routledge, 2020) and Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater (2014). ROUTLEDGE KEY GUIDES Fifty Key Theatre Directors Edited by Shomit Mitter and Maria Shevtsova Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers John Lechte Art History The Key Concepts Jonathan Harris Fifty Contemporary Choreographers Edited by Jo Butterworth and Lorna Sanders Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre Edited by Paola S. Hernández and Analola Santana Fifty Key Stage Musicals Edited by Robert W. Schneider and Shannon Agnew Fifty Key Irish Plays Edited by Shaun Richards Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre Edited by Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout For a full list of titles in this series, please visit: https://www. routledge.com/Routledge-Key-Guides/book-series/RKG FIFTY KEY FIGURES IN QUEER US THEATRE Edited by Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout Cover Image: Chitra Ganesh, Cadre, 2019. Courtesy the artist. Photo credit: Emily Peacock. First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Noriega, Jimmy A., editor. | Schildcrout, Jordan, editor. Title: Fifty key figures in queer US theatre / Edited by Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022009953 (print) | LCCN 2022009954 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032067995 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032067964 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003203896 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Gay theater—United States—Biography. | Gay actors— United States—Biography. | Gay theatrical producers and directors— United States—Biography. | Gay dramatists—United States—Biography. Classification: LCC PN2270.G39 F54 2022 (print) | LCC PN2270.G39 (ebook) | DDC 792.086/640973 [B]—dc23/eng/20220602 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022009953 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022009954 ISBN: 978-1-032-06799-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-06796-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-20389-6 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003203896 Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS List of Contributors x Acknowledgments xx Introduction 1 Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout Reza Abdoh 16 Joseph Cermatori Luis Alfaro 21 Patricia Ybarra Kate Bornstein 26 Rye Gentleman Sharon Bridgforth 30 T. Chester Charles Busch 35 Sean F. Edgecomb Jane Chambers 40 Sara Warner Ellie Covan 44 Jeff McMahon Will Davis 48 Joshua Bastian Cole v CONTENTS Ty Defoe (Giizhig) 53 Courtney Elkin Mohler Snehal Desai 58 Dan Bacalzo Harvey Fierstein 63 Jordan Schildcrout William Finn 67 Ryan Donovan The Five Lesbian Brothers: Moe Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron 72 Lisa Sloan María Irene Fornés 76 Gwendolyn Alker John Glines 81 Jordan Schildcrout David Greenspan 85 Nick Salvato Jeremy O. Harris 90 David Román Rachel Hauck 94 Stacy Wolf Chisa Hutchinson 99 La Donna L. Forsgren Michael R. Jackson 103 Aviva Helena Neff Bill T. Jones 108 Ariel Nereson vi CONTENTS Moisés Kaufman 113 Bess Rowen Tony Kushner 118 Virginia Anderson Tina Landau 123 David Román Nathan Lane 127 James F. Wilson Haruna Lee 132 Jessica Del Vecchio Joan Lipkin 137 Gad Guterman Charles Ludlam 142 Joe E. Jeffreys Taylor Mac 146 Sean F. Edgecomb Joe Mantello 151 James F. Wilson Tarell Alvin McCraney 156 Isaiah Matthew Wooden Terrence McNally 160 Virginia Anderson Muriel Miguel 165 Christy Stanlake Cherríe Moraga 170 Alicia Arrizón vii CONTENTS Daaimah Mubashshir 175 Adam Ashraf Elsayigh The NEA Four: Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller 179 Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout Robert O’Hara 184 Faedra Chatard Carpenter Monica Palacios 189 Marci R. McMahon Miguel Piñero 193 Karen Jaime Billy Porter 197 Eric M. Glover Clint Ramos 201 Jimmy A. Noriega Guillermo Reyes 206 Jimmy A. Noriega Edwin Sánchez 211 Analola Santana Leigh Silverman 215 Bess Rowen Ana María Simo 219 Virginia Baeta Split Britches: Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, and Deb Margolin 223 Benjamin Gillespie Paula Vogel 228 Sara Warner viii CONTENTS Ron Whyte 233 Patrick McKelvey George C. Wolfe 238 Charles I. Nero BD Wong 242 Esther Kim Lee Chay Yew 246 Dan Bacalzo ix
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