The theater of gender play | Jo Michael Rezes | TEDxTufts

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Does watching someone fall apart on stage give you secondhand embarrassment? Do you think you have stage fright? Are you nervous to to perform your gender on a daily basis? “Gender Rehearsativity” discusses the expansive, freeing, and experimental ways that playing with gender in theatrical rehearsal and acting classrooms can be applied to our everyday lives. Pulling from their own experiences as a nonbinary theatre educator, professional actor, and director, Rezes even riffs on the TEDxTalk form with a new take on a classic half-and-half performance style. Jo (they/them/theirs) is a second year M.A./Ph.D.
student in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts
University currently writing an auto-ethnographic
thesis which explores queer time ruptures and the
disintegration of bodies in Camp performance spaces.
Since beginning their career as a theatremaker at Vassar
College, Jo has worked to disrupt the gender binary on
and off the stage as an actor, director, and educator in
the Greater Boston Area. Most recently, they’ve had the
irreverent joys of playing Dr. Frank N. Furter in Entropy Theatre Company’s New England Tour of The Rocky
Horror Show, assistant directing The Nora Theatre Company’s Cloud 9, teaching workshops on gender-bending at Somerville Arts for Youth, and instructing Introduction to Acting in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts. Jo cannot
wait to play with gender at TEDxTufts! Learn more:

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Say what you will on the gender debate, this Ted Talk is NEXT LEVEL

So cool and thought-provoking

JustanamebroDK

My two personnalities arguing while I'm trying to sleep:

I don't understand what they're saying at the beggining (I'm not a native speaker) but it looks funny 🤣

vsfangirl

Excellent point! Gender creates social roles. Seen in societies, including religious.

mikeq

Hey. You scrolling through the comments. You are valid. Explore yourself and don't let other people tell you who you are.

quinndepatten

This is absolutely brilliant! Thank you for this stunning and eye-opening talk.

manjarim

My mom gets this way sometimes but she refers to herself as "he who wears the dress" jk. But with all seriousness I am a straight male who is a fitness model and I wear Pink Victoria secret t-shirts all the time at my Job. If you look nice where whatever you like. I am attracted to certain colors and different styles and have more honor in just being myself. Women look up to a man with confidence, I still get compliments everyday no shame. If you do more research and educate yourself in this area you will learn acceptance:)

jaygang

This really started to open up my mind and I think it has helped me the accept the feminine side of my personality. My wife has always said that in many ways I am more of a woman than she is.

kenhoover

Thank you! Feel like I've gotten a deeper understanding of my own gender identity.

vgdominator

Such a fascinating TED talk. I can't help but wonder what would happen if we played with switching the genders in classic plays e.g. what would happen if Algernon was actually female and Cecily male or all "unisex" etc. Certainly some valid points worth reflecting upon.

KathrynKimbley

As a fellow enby, really inspiring. Thanks for speaking up for all of us. Cheers 👐

astrobookwormsinger

Great acting content...Creativity and right approach is much required in today's world...You remind me my childhood life... Half men and half woman...I got first prize in fancy dress competition....

KomTvdelhi

I'm not a native English speaker, I was still processing what he said... and then 16:33. I was like OHH mY god

leonagryffindor

"Why am i lying to you, these pages are blank" -bo Burnham

The whole comment on the fake mess up and the memorized line made me think of that moment

Sniper