There Are No Closets in My Classroom by Nora Louise Syran

(A Monologue) A teacher stands before a disciplinary board as one of their students has declared they want to write like Virginia Woolf. -- "Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Many people still are..."-Andrew Martineau

Published in 2023 by Smith & Kraus "WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology."
Produced in June 2024 by Different Strokes!...
(A Monologue) A teacher stands before a disciplinary board as one of their students has declared they want to write like Virginia Woolf. -- "Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Many people still are..."-Andrew Martineau

Published in 2023 by Smith & Kraus "WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology."
Produced in June 2024 by Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective's for their 369 Monologues and Short Play Festival pt 2.
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There Are No Closets in My Classroom

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  • Neil Radtke:
    24 Apr. 2024
    “ "There Are No Closets in My Classroom" offers a powerful exploration of the challenges and complexities faced by both educators and students in navigating issues of identity, acceptance, and expression within the educational setting. ”
  • Samantha Marchant:
    28 Jul. 2022
    “ A heartfelt monologue from a teacher reflecting on time, gender, lessons, sexuality, sense of self and writing. ”
  • Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn:
    27 Jun. 2022
    “ This is just tragically beautiful. Teachers are on the front lines. They are there as young people learn and discover the world as well as themselves. And if the "administration" doesn't like the students' discoveries, it's the teachers who are punished. This teacher is just doing their job wonderfully, thoughtfully and with total admiration of the students they teach. And the fact the teacher is still open to learning more. The right way to speak of students, the right way to teach, but always with heart. This should be performed for a teacher in service and discussed!! ”
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A Teacher nearing retirement, late 50s/early 60s.

The gender of this teacher is immaterial--in both senses of the word: irrelevant as a teacher and spiritual in nature as according to Virginia Woolf, a mind able to reconcile both its masculine and feminine parts is the most creative.

Awards

Accepted for WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology, ed. Debbie Lamedman, Smith & Kraus,, 2023