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Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality book cover

1st Edition

Queering the Stage Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality

By Adi Cabral Copyright 2025
322 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

322 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

322 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press
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Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality addresses a history of stereotyping and provides inclusive approaches to navigating gender and sexuality in a way that does not reduce the broad spectrum of LGBTQ+ communities into a single monolith. Butch it up! Be more manly! Add a little swish! Queen out! These instructions make performers feel minimized, erased,... Read more

1. Introduction

Adi Cabral

2. Should I

Adi Cabral

Part 1: Unlocking the Mind

3. Inventory of Choice

Adi Cabral

4. Performing Beyond the Binary

Amy Steiger

Part 2: Expanding the Heart

5. The (Ab)Normal Heart – (Classwork, Dramaturgy, Research)

Raja Benz, Leo Mock, Joy Brooke Fairfield, Adi Cabral

6. Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby

Raja Benz, Leo Mock, Joy Brooke Fairfield

Part 3: Choreographing Gender and Sexuality

7. Gender Affirming Movement

Adi Cabral and Leo Mock

8. Embodying the Binary

Adi Cabral and Yusef Seevers

9. Queering the Body

Adi Cabral and Yusef Seevers

Part 4: Codeswitching Gender and Sexuality

10. Owning Your Voice

Adi Cabral and Foster Johns

11. Binary Dialects

Adi Cabral and Foster Johns

12. Queering the Voice

Adi Cabral and Foster Johns

Part 5: Putting it Together

13. You’ve Been Cast, Now What?

Adi Cabral

Biography

Adi Cabral (they/ them) is the Associate Professor of Voice

and Movement in the Department of Theatre and Dance at

the University of Nevada, Reno, and works professionally

as a Dialect Coach, Intimacy Professional, and Audiobook

Narrator. Their professional credits include productions at

Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Alliance

Theatre, Houston Stages, Theatre Squared, Utah Shakespeare

Festival, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Repertory

Theatre of St. Louis, New Repertory Theatre, Mildred’s

Umbrella Theatre Company, Stage Q, New Hazlett Theater,

Hangar Theatre Company, Central Square Theatre, Edinburgh

Fringe Festival, and Darlinghurst Theatre. Their research and

publications focus on cultural competency in performance

training with a focus on Spanish accents and queer inclusivity.

They are a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, Knight-

Thompson Speechwork, a Reiki Master, and a proud member

of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and SAGAFTRA.

For more information, visit www.AdiCabral.com.

 

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