The Naked Playwright’s Transgender Jesus

[Shana A]

The Naked Playwright's Transgender Jesus
By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Published: April 24, 2008

http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=7994

"The basic premise is that Jesus was FTM," says award-winning playwright Tobias K. Davis, describing his one-act play, Crossing, which retells the story of Christ's crucifixion with this transgender twist. "His struggles and persecution and crucifixion were motivated not only by his teachings and how they threatened the Roman Empire, but by his gender, and how it threatened the rigid binary society."

[Pica Pica]

that sounds dreadful.

[Nero]

ah, the transgender version of 'Color of the Cross'. 

[Shana A]

The 'Naked' Playwright's Transgender Jesus
TransNation

http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?id=18846&section=67

By Jacob Anderson-Minshall | 5/01/2008

"I've always been interested in the strange relationship that exists between transgendered people and the medical and therapist community," says the award-winning trans playwright Tobias K. Davis. He explores those issues in his latest play, Standards of Care, which examines the relationships between a therapist and a transgender patient.

Davis' The Naked I: Monologues From Beyond the Binary won first place in the 2003 Five-College Denis H. Johnston Playwriting Competition. He lives in his hometown, Northampton, Mass., where he graduated from Smith College. Collaborating with classmate Claire Avitabile, the trans identified author developed The Naked I ("a transgendered take on The Vagina Monologues") his senior year.