Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts [Paperback]

This anthology includes seven different plays by queer Canadian writers that provide a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices-from play writing to drag to performance art to spoken word to digital performance. A companion title to Play wrights Canada Press's anthologyQueer Canadian Theatre and Performance.A companion anthology toQueer Canadian Theatre and Performance, the work contained in this volume provides a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practicesfrom playwriting to drag to performance art to spoken word to digital performance.Peter Dickinson is a professor at Simon Fraser University, where he holds a joint appointment in the School for the Contemporary Arts and the Department of English. He is also Director of SFUs Institute for Performance Studies and Associate Member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Womens Studies. A long-time board member and Past President of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Peter blogs regularly about Vancouver performance.

Born, raised, and based in Vancouver, Filipino-Canadian author C.E. Gatchalian writes drama, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. His plays, which includeBroken, Crossing, Claire,andMotifs & Repetitions,have appeared on stages nationally and internationally, as well as on radio and television. His latest play,Falling in Time,was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. He is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Dayne Ogilvie Prize, awarded annually by The Writers Trust of Canada to an LGBT writer of merit.

Kathleen Oliver currently teaches English at Langara College and has been writing theatre reviews for theGeorgia Straightfor twenty years.

Dalbir Singh is the associate editor ofalt.theatremagazine and has published work in such journals and anthologies asCanadian Theatre Review, Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Red Light,andShe Speaks. His playsl3¦