Nicolas Shannon Savard, PhD (they/them) is a genderqueer performance artist-scholar and educator currently living and teaching in Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH
Joined April 2019
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Just finished drafting my course proposals for the spring, one of which has the working title "Gendered Expression: Feminist Activism, Art, and Performance" and I see "lesbian dance theory" is trending. Thanks for drumming up interest, Rep. Boebert! #transPhD
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Ben Gillespe reflects on Split Britches
Meeting Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver at LA Mama during the run of Retro
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Where is the study of their work post-1990s? How have their works and anesthetics continued to grow?
Thinking about aging as a part of queer experience and identity
Simultaneous frustration with Kelly's conversations around Ludlam are turned toward Rupaul's drag race. At the same time...
Seeing what we like in the now can be a way of connecting with the past
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Hello Cleveland! Come see the funniest show about trying to date as an older transgender woman you will ever see! Three shows as part of the BorderLight Festival, right in the heart of Playhouse Square!
borderlightcle.org/shmilf-li…
My show, Un/Packing, begins with re-enactments of ways cis people have introduced themselves to me--usually with the name of the other trans person they know, rather than their own. The opening lines of the show are me-as-theatre-festival-director telling an audience member:
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“We’re so glad to have you here! It’s been so long since we’ve had someone like you, years–the last was… Rebecca! Of course! Rebecca, Rebecca… her last name is escaping me. Have you met Rebecca?”
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@RebeccaKling you're apparently very popular in Denver. All four nights of the Fringe the random audience member I asked said, "Yeah, I know Rebecca!" ... I kept having to improvise new lines to finish the monologue in a way that still made sense.
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