jbastiancole@gmail.com www.joshuabastiancole.weebly.com
Education
2012 Master of Arts - Theater History and Criticism CUNY, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY GPA: 3.9
Thesis: When Transmen Dance: FTM Embodied Subjectivity and Classical Ballet Supervisors: Helen Richardson and Meg Araneo-Reddy (thesis); Erin Courtney (playwriting)
2002
Major: Theatre and Dance Thesis: Gender is Performance Minor: Film Studies Activities and Societies: Division I Varsity Fencing, Stratford Players, Golden Key Honor Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Army ROTC, Freethinkers, Harmony, Safe Zones Speaker and Panelist Awards: Army ROTC Scholarship, Dean's List, Coach's Award (Varsity Fencing) Semester Abroad London, 2000 London Theatre History - University College London Shakespeare Intensive and Masterclass with Patrick Spottiswoode and Andrew Gurr Shakespeares Globe, Bankside, London
Professional Affiliations
Professional Staff Congress/CUNY Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)
Conference Presentations
February 2014 Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC) MIGC14: ANIMACY Paper: Cyborg Alice: Cyborgs and Erin Courtneys The Service Road trans* : Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference Paper: Vanishing Point: Dys-Appearance and the Not-Quite-There of Transmasculine Spectatorship Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) P[L]AY: Performance, Pleasure and Pedagogy Panel: Training Queer: Intersections of Queer/Gender Studies and Actor/Performer Training Paper: Phenomenal Presence of the Transmasculine Actor: DysAppearance, Trans-Parency, Fragmentation, & The Nothing 36th Comparative Drama Conference Paper: Transitioning Twelfth Night: A Transgender Reading of a Female Page Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics Conference Paper: When Transmen Dance: Hermeneutics of Dance Masculinities 35th Comparative Drama Conference Paper: Athena in Armor: The Warrior Goddess in Greek Drama as an Embodiment of Gender Variance Union College Symposium Southeast Regional Unity Conference True Spirit Conference Trans Forming Families, Author Panel
October 2013
August 2013
March 2012
Publications
Daily Beast Within. Original Plumbing Magazine, http://originalplumbing.com/index.php/politics-activism/trigger-nation/item/587-thedaily-beast. August 2013. Stop the Spot: Polemics of Transmale Stage Representation and Its Criticism. Theatre Provocateur [online theatre journal]. 2012. A New American Gothic: Tallgrass Gothic at the New Workshop Theater. The Kingsman [Brooklyn College Newspaper]. 25 Oct. 2010, Arts and Culture: 11. Some Femmes Dont Wear Heels. Visible: a Femmethology. Ed. Jennifer Clare Burke. Vol. 1. Ypsilanti: Homofactus Press, 2009. Tarheels and Transfags. Beyond Masculinity. Ed. Trevor Hoppe. http://www.beyondmasculinity.com. 2008. Ill Be Different. With Julie Loyd. Trans-Fusions. 2008. CD. Real Trans (In)Visibility. Lambda Magazine, [UNC LGBT Magazine]. The Transgender Issue. December, 2005. Untitled personal statement. XX Boys. http://www.xxboys.net. 2005. Tomboy to Femme Boy. Trans Forming Families. Ed. Mary Boenke. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003.
Guest Speaking
Union College, 2011 James Madison University, 2008 Wakefield High School GSA, 2008 Guilford College, 2008 Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist Youth Group, 2008 Wakefield High School GSA, 2007 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2007 North Carolina State University, 2006 Sweaty Southern Radical Queer and Trans Convergence, Durham, NC, 2006 Hollins University, 2004 Mary Baldwin College, 2003 Lynchburg Pride, Lynchburg, VA, 2002 Roanoke Unitarian Universalist Youth Group, 2002 Morris Hills High School GSA, 2001 Student speaker at James Madison University and Safe Zones panelist, 2000-2002
Role/Position/Type
Production
Venue/Company/Director
Self
2011 2010
Self Self
The Birds and the University Settlement, NYC Bees: Dirs. Maggie KeenanUnabridged Bolger and Rachel Sullivan Dir. Jared R. Pike The Box (development) Queer Memoir, Queers for Nothing, or Economic Justice Nowhere, Performance Space, NYC Michigan Ripley-Grier Studios, NYC White Boys in Dir. Casey Llewellyn Paradise Poems by Spence Tranz This! Blend, Chapel Hill, NC Poems by Cass Unity Conference, Blend, Hodges Chapel Hill
Curator Dramaturg
Holiday BLIPS! Untitled Ramn Novarro Project Love Poems for Dead Bodies Queering History
2012
Dramaturg
2012
Dramaturg
{Your Name Here}, TADA, NYC {Your Name Here}, TADA, NYC Playwright: James Pugh {Your Name Here}, TADA, NYC Playwright: MJ Kaufman The Producers Club, NYC Dir. Maggie KeenanBolger {Your Name Here}, TADA, NYC Independent project BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange SAWTOOTH dancers Hollins University, Roanoke, VA Houses On The Moon Theater Co. Playwright: Jeffrey Solomon
2003 2002
Dance Theatre
2009
2009
2009
Modern Dance
2008
Lyrical Dance
Cornflake Girl
2007
Lyrical Dance
Dixon Place, HOT! Festival, NYC Dir. J Dellecave Judson Church, Movement Research Yve Laris Cohen Mongrel Vaudeville, Freddys Bar, NYC Bryn Kelly Multiple Exposure III, Barriskill Dance Theatre School, Durham, NC Julie Mulvihill Body Language Transcendence UNC Chapel Hill Tranz This! Blend, Chapel Hill, NC Cats Cradle, Carrboro, NC Cats Cradle, Cuntry Kings Carrboro, NC Gallaghers, Charm City Boys Baltimore, MD
Sam (lead) Transman (lead) Kirk (lead) Russian sailor (extra) Self Ian Foxe (lead) Ian Foxe (lead) Self
All Gender Health Online Dir. Melissa Li MamSir Productions Against a Trans Dir. Jules Rosskam Narrative 3 Minutes in Heaven Kirk/Spock Dir. Felix Endara Postcode Productions Maggots and Dir. Cary Cronenwett Men FilmArtGender Gender? Dir. JoieRey Cohen Brazen Garage Squad Couch Surfers Dir. Mark Van Helsing Brazen Garage Squad Cubbyholes Dir. Ken Rowe gaymotherf*ckers Cricket Dog Dir. Christy Pessagno The Dinner Party