Where it began…

The project started as Liana’s senior thesis, the BU Trans Monologue Workshop. Ten artists participated via Zoom in Liana’s cultivated explorative and decisive exercises that they programmed in efforts to generate authentic material for trans people to use in their monologues and reels in auditions. Read the text by clicking below and check out some selected monologues the actors filmed to be published.

Read the Spring 2021 Collection Here!

Special thanks to:

Thanks to all the actors in the above photo (left to right): Maddy Mathias, Tai Tran, Socks Whitmore, Clew, T Mitsock, Gabby/G Momah, Sampson Spadafore, Matthew Vazquez, Dante Gonzales, Jude Prager. Also, Thank you to workshop collaborator Khadija Bangoura (not pictured).

These actors came with their most authentic selves and created a nourishing community during a massively isolating time (COVID-19).

Thanks to self-tape directors: Shira Gitlin, Rani O’Brien, Jude Prager, and Asher Lloyd Ehrenberg.

and, FINALLY: 

Thanks to the grants which it possible to pay workshop artists for their labor: 

  • CFA SEED Grant at Boston University

  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at Boston University 

BU TRANS MONOLOGUE WORKSHOP RECAP AND REACTIONS BY ACTORS AND COLLABORATORS:

Check out this inside look on what went on during the BU Trans Monologue Workshop in Spring 2021 and some reactions by some of the actors!