Fig Lefevre

Fig Lefevre

Fig Lefevre (they/them) is a playwright, dramaturg, educator, intimacy choreographer, and facilitator whose work focuses on trans and queer communities, theater as a tool for social change, and consent-based practices. They currently serve as a visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Department of Theater, and are the Managing Director of a Springfield-based youth theater company, The Performance...
Fig Lefevre (they/them) is a playwright, dramaturg, educator, intimacy choreographer, and facilitator whose work focuses on trans and queer communities, theater as a tool for social change, and consent-based practices. They currently serve as a visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Department of Theater, and are the Managing Director of a Springfield-based youth theater company, The Performance Project. Their recent projects include a traveling workshop called the Trans Naming Ritual, developing their new play The Skin of Other Men, and serving as the VP of Freelance for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Recent publications include chapters in The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance, Beyond Binaries: Trans Identities in Contemporary Culture, and The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays. www.figlefevre.com

Plays

  • The Skin of Other Men by Fig Lefevre
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: masculinity, queer + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental, movement/physical
    Keyword: masculinity, queer, intimacy, sexuality, gender identity, Transgender
    The Skin of Other Men is an exploration of masculinity and intimacy from a queer perspective. On one of her most famous art pieces, Barbara Kreuger wrote, “You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men.” Her words tug at the deep loneliness and longing of growing up steeped in American masculinities and struggling to find the intimacies we desire. The five “players” face these...
    The Skin of Other Men is an exploration of masculinity and intimacy from a queer perspective. On one of her most famous art pieces, Barbara Kreuger wrote, “You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men.” Her words tug at the deep loneliness and longing of growing up steeped in American masculinities and struggling to find the intimacies we desire. The five “players” face these questions and more as they try to decide just how much they will play along to touch The Skin of Other Men. They play as friends, as lovers, as fathers and sons. They excavate the rituals of bathrooms, they interpolate the rules of hugs, they percolate on the ironies of sport, they masturbate. And finally, they come to a new question: what happens if we transform these rituals—or if we destroy them entirely?
  • Mother by Fig Lefevre
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: motherhood, pregnancy + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: motherhood, pregnancy, death, ancestors, Generational trauma, cannibalism, family, food
    Mama is nearing death and she has finally decided what she wants her daughters to do with her body when she passes: eat it. What unfolds is a story of womanhood, motherhood, and connection to ancestors, told in dreamscapes and dough, bread and song.