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1970s New York Art World Celebs are Playwright Mikki Gillette's Marvel Universe

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The Lives of Transgender Teens Take Center Stage in Fuse Theatre's Production of "They Them Their"

New voices, new rooms

Collaboration may have become a bit of a corporate buzzword, but that doesn’t mean it’s an empty cliché, as the Ashland New Plays Festival would happily point out. When five emerging playwrights gathe...

In The Queers, Mikki Gillette Writes Real, Unflinching Stories about the Transgender Experience

There are no fantasy heroes in Mikki Gillette’s work. And hardly any glamour. “A person at a reading said, ‘I’m glad you aren’t just writing the noble transgender character,’” Gillette told the Mercury. “And inside I laughed out loud because that’s not what I would ever do.” As a playwright, Gillette focuses on characters who are healing from transphobia. Sometimes they’re parsing microaggressions: daily, degrading insults born from both innocence and intention. In other moments,...

Shoutout Aims to Fill a Void in Portland's LGBTQ Coverage

So on January 4, she started what she's careful to call a passion project: Shoutout, a Facebook-only publication that features original pieces by a team of volunteer writers and also collates LGBTQ stories from other local outlets. To date, they've profiled people like Rusty Tennant, who helms Fuse Theatre Ensemble's OutWright Theatre Festival, and Daniel Quasar, the designer behind the Progress Pride Flag; Poison Waters produces a weekly Q&A column with local drag artists. To supplement the stories,  Shoutout's feed is littered with links to events and festivals, and signal boosts for local LGBTQ orgs, which gives it the feel of a community bulletin.