Poems of a Transsexual Nature

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Saturday 9 August, 7PM

Southbank Theatre, The Lawler

A reckless, erotic and audacious ode to reconnection.

Approx. 60 minutes

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A brotherboy with a god complex goes on country for the first time and confronts what really matters.

Big city escapades, rainforest epiphanies and loads of depraved transgender sex, Poems of a Transsexual Nature  is a reckless, erotic and audacious ode to reconnection.

Director
Joe Paradise Lui

Cast
Elijah Money
Gabrielle Fallen

Wheelchair Accessible

Cynda Beare

Writer

Joe Paradise Lui

Director

Jennifer Medway

Dramaturg

Elijah Money

Apollo 1

Gabrielle Fallen

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Cynda Beare

Writer

Cynda Beare is a trans, Palawa artist based in Gurambilbarra and Naarm. He is an alumnus of both the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and TheatreiNQ’s The Bridge Project. Recent writing credits include: EQUALS (Midsumma Festival); Body (Eleven Eleven Theatre); blakink/q (Testing Grounds); The Peach Blossom Fan (VCA); and Etty: A Christmas Dramedy (TheatreiNQ’s Playground Writer’s Festival). Cynda was the Indigenous representative and access coordinator for the 2024 Muse Festival, an Artist in residence at the Unconformity Festival in Queenstown Lutruwita, and made the 2024 Lord Mayor Creative Writing Award shortlist.

Joe Paradise Lui

Director

Joe Paradise Lui (it/its) is a submerging artist who puts the mid in mid-career. It is the undisputed winner of the 2013 Spirit of the Fringe award. It has won no awards since. Joe creates experimental theatre and performance works as Renegade Productions. Joe was the artist in residence at the Malthouse Theatre for 2023/2024.

Joe’s most recent directing work was on Legends of the Golden Arches (Perth Festival/Rising/Melbourne Theatre Company). Its most recent independent directing work was whitesnake3000, (CO:3 dance company). Joe is also a writer, and a sound and lighting designer.

Jennifer Medway

Dramaturg

Jennifer Medway is the Head of New Work at Melbourne Theatre Company.

A dramaturg with over a decade of professional experience in the development of new Australian work, she was Melbourne Theatre Company’s Literary Associate from 2017-2021 and Acting Literary Manager of Melbourne Theatre Company 2021-2022. Prior to this she was Resident Dramaturg at the Australian Theatre for Young People, Studio Artist at Griffin Theatre Company, Associate Artist-Dramatugy at Belvoir, Literary Assistant also at Belvoir, and a regular script assessor and dramaturg for Playwriting Australia.

Jennifer is also a regular guest lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts within their Masters of Directing, Playwriting and Dramaturgy programmes and was on the judging panel for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award’s Book of the Year prize and the Nick Enright Playwriting Prize from 2018-2020.

Elijah Money

Apollo 1

Gabrielle Fallen

Apollo 2

Gabrielle Fallen is a trans Naarm-based theatre maker, writer, and performer. Gabrielle is in her final year studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) at the Victorian College of the Arts, and her credits while training include Happy To Be Here (dir. Dr Sarah Austin), The Infinity Hotel (dir. Nazaree Dickerson), Peach Blossom Fan (dir. Joe Paradise Lui), and All Boys (Xavier Hazard). As a theatre maker, she’s created Saturn and Solitude and How To Come Out (But Not, Like, In a Gay Way or Anything) for MUSE Festival, and Pembroke Manor for Drift Arts Festival’s Playground. Gabrielle was a finalist for Canberra Youth Theatre’s 2023 Emerging Playwright Commission, interned under Yve Blake on Fangirls (Belvoir) at the Sydney Opera House, and alongside her cohort, has been a resident artist with Polyglot Theatre and The Unconformity. Her Instagram is @gabriellefallen.

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