Cruising the Boards is a workshop series for queer theatremakers and writers based in Ireland led byCarys D. Coburn & Gavin Kostick. 

It’s for you if you have a project you’d like to work on in dialogue with other artists, and if you’re excited to discuss the distinctive problems of staging that come with queer aesthetics and queer politics. When does camp tip over into orientalism? Where’s the line between trying to write parts queer performers will love to play and pandering? (Is pandering only bad when corporations do it?) How do you write about the state of trans healthcare globally without A.) going on for 13 hours or B.) making yourself too depressed to perform the show that results? If your play is a fragmentary exercise in the queer art of failure, how do you make it clear to the audience you’ve read Halberstam and haven’t just written a bad play? Was Sarah Schulman right about Angels? Wasn’t Russell Tovey great in Angels?

Details here

The deadline to apply is 13th December 2024