Welcome to Represent, the queer musical theatre podcast. My name is Dr James Lovelock, and I’m an academic and a huge musical theatre fan exploring the representation of all things queer in the musical theatre industry.

My guests today are the extraordinary writer Chris Bush and the fabulous actor and workshop queen Beth Hinton-Lever. Beth recently appeared in Chris’ play Otherland at the Almeida Theatre, which follows the post break-up relationship between Harry, who has recently come out as a trans woman, and Jo, who is preparing to be a mother. We talk about trans, queer and disability representation as well as exploring Chris’ beautiful musical Standing At The Sky’s Edge, Beth’s West End debut in Hadestown and an epic community musical called The Doncastrian Chalk Circle.

Links

Chris Bush's instagram

Beth Hinton-Lever's instagram

James Lovelock's instagram

Standing at the Sky's Edge website

Buy the Standing at the Sky's Edge script from Nick Hern Books

'As the Dawn Breaks' and 'Tonight the Streets Are Ours' from Standing At The Sky's Edge (press preview)

Listen to the Standing at the Sky's Edge soundtrack on Spotify or Apple Music

Otherland website

Buy the Otherland script from Nick Hern Books

The Doncastrian Chalk Circle website

Other new LGBTQ+ theatre / musical theatre discussed in this episode

After the Act website

Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2018 production of Oklahoma! - website

One of Them Ones website

One of Them Ones script

In this week's episode from Podstream Studios in New York, Dr James Lovelock talks to actors Evan Kinnane and Ben Jackson Walker about LGBTQ+ representation on Broadway and beyond. We talk about Evan's role as Marc Hall in the 2020 production of The Louder We Get at Theatre Calgary in Canada, and about Ben's current role as Romeo in & Juliet as well as our hopes and dreams for queer musical theatre in the future.

Follow Evan on Instagram here.

Follow Ben on Instagram here.

Follow James on Instagram here.

'This Dance Is For You' from The Louder We Get

www.queermusicals.com

This episode was recorded at Podstream Studio in New York and engineered by Desta Wondirad (thanks Desta!)

In this episode, Dr James Lovelock is joined by Oliver Houser, the writer of XY and She Reached For Heaven. We talk about intersex representation in musical theatre, and the writing and development process of XY as a queer musical.

Oliver's website is here and you can follow him on Instagram here.

You can follow James on instagram here.

www.queermusicals.com

This episode was recorded at Podstream Studio in New York and engineered by Desta Wondirad (thanks Desta!)