in this episode i read from my essay "language games" where i talk about writing in Spanish and bilingually in an Anglophone theatre.
in this episode i read an essay i wrote about theatre, class system and who gets kept in and who gets kept out: "Three card monte or the theatre shell game"
in this episode, i read the first essay from my substack called pocket theatre or slow news from old wars: "I Miss When Plays were just plays."
in this episode I read from poet Andrea Gibson's work in honor of their memory. the poems are from their collection YOU BETTER BE LIGHTNING (Button Poetry, 2021), as follows:
"Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record In Goosebumps"
"The Year of No Grudges, Or Instead of Writing a Furious Text, I try a Poem"
"The Museum of Broken Relationships"
"Time Piece"
in this episode I read Dan O'Brien's pamphlet 40 QUESTONS FOR A POLITICAL PLAY. published by Calque Pamphlets. Calquepress. (2025)
in this episode I read and reflect upon Sara Ahmed's "A Useful Manifesto" (published July 11, 2025 on their substack feministkilljoys).
in this episode I read the second half of Tobi Haslett's essay "Magic Actions" (summer 2021, nplusone.mag/issue-40
in this episode I read the first half of Tobi Haslett's essay "Magic Actions" (summer 2021, nplusone.mag/issue-40/
in this episode I read from Andy Smith's new collection PLAYS FOR THE PEOPLE (June 2025, INK Concrete Pub).
in this episode, i read from Fehinti Balogun's CAN I LIVE? which was originally presented by Complicite theatre as a digitally touring film. the text is published by TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS which I edited for Methuen Drama (2025).
in this episode I read Violet Affleck's powerful personal essay "A Chronically Il Earth" published May 18, 2025 in Yale Global Health Review.
in this episode I read the introduction to my new book Transmedia Theatre Plays (Methuen Drama, 2025).
in this episode I read the stories "Paper Pills" and "Mother" from Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO (1919)
in this episode, i start reading Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO (1919). The first piece called "The Book of Grotesques" and "Hands."
in this episode i read an excerpt from A.V. Marraccini's WE THE PARASITES (Sublunary Editions, 2023).
in this episode I read from Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs' HAND BOOK: A MANUAL ON PERFORMANCE, PROCESS AND THE LABOR OF LAUNDRY (Punctum Books, 2025) and Anne Boyer's A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018).
in this episode I read selected poems from Alina Stefanescu's new collection MY HERESIES (Sarabande Books, 2025):
Byline, Be Sky
Tonight, As You Pace the Garden
My Father Explains Why They Left Me Behind When Defecting
Socialization #2: Sky in the Other Languages
and Poem for the Blackbird.
in this episode I read from tracks 3 and 4 of my performance piece MINOTAUR.
on the passing of scholar and poet Joshua Clover, I read his essay "The Irreconcilable: Marx after Literature" and some poems from his collection RED EPIC (2015).
in this episode, I read "The Anxious Classroom" essay by Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Goransson, and also where i riff for a while on creative writing in the classroom, reading, writing, teaching and being a respondent to art.
