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The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 3

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Playwrights in Volume 3 agree: “These are the plays we wish we had.” The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This volume focuses on young characters whose ages range from twelve... Read More
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The third anthology of Trans plays from Methuen Drama, curated via an open submission policy, supporting vital trans voices in theatre, featuring plays with nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality.

The third anthology of Trans plays from Methuen Drama, curated via an open submission policy, supporting vital trans voices in theatre, featuring plays with nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality.

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Playwrights in Volume 3 agree: “These are the plays we wish we had.”

The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This volume focuses on young characters whose ages range from twelve to late twenties.

Following the critical and commercial success of the first two volumes, this edited collection supports the expanding landscape of contemporary American trans theatre, which represents a variety of performance modes and genres.

These plays address themes such as coming of age, parents and family (found and biological), athletics, dating, and navigating hostile political and social terrains. This third volume also includes short introductory essays that accompany each of the plays to support a deeper understanding of the work.

The Interrobangers by M. Sloth Levine

Magic Girl!... And Her Demons by Charlotte Snow

t4t by Jessica Scott

The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas

The More The Man by Jameson P. Murray

Man and Moon by Siena Marilyn

Caeneus by Samuel Achilles

Unfair Advantage by Tyler Rocio Ecoña

Tides by Eliana Rubin

Edited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller, the plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans performers, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350514867

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Contributors:

  • Edited by Lindsey Mantoan
  • Edited by she/her Leanna Keyes
  • Edited by Angela Farr Schiller

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 512

About the Author

Leanna Keyes is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist and producer with a primary focus on queer and trans people. She aims to authentically portray the full complexities of queer life (past, present, and future).

Lindsey Mantoan is the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Theatre Arts and an Associate Professor at Linfield University. Her current research focuses on contemporary musical theater. She is the author or co-editor of seven books, an intimacy director, a director, and a dramaturg.

Angela Farr Schiller is an Emmy® Award–winning director, a multiple award-winning dramaturg, scholar, and professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Additionally, Angela works as a Dramaturg-in-Residence with the Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights (WTP), the leading new play development organization in the Southeast, United States.

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