In this episode, Bryce speaks with mezzo-soprano and performance artist Heather Jones (they/them). The two discuss how Heather has embraced theater-making as a way to explore and deepen their identity, Heather’s recent experiences playing a transgender character in opera for the first time in Laura Kaminsky’s As One (Kentucky Opera, Holy City Lyric Opera, Opera Maine), and their work exploring notions of bodily autonomy and growing up queer and trans in the church. To learn more about Heather, visit their website: heatherjonesmezzo.com.
Release Date: July 24, 2024
Recording Date: June 17, 2024
Name of Podcast: Beyond Travesti
Episode Title & Number: Heather Jones, Season 2, Episode 1
Topic #1: Experimenting with identity through theater [4:00]
Topic #2: As One and navigating transness in opera and classical music spaces [11:00]
Topic #3: Being trans in church spaces and Expostulation(s) of Mary [19:30]
Topic #4: The ideal Heather project, and One Body [26:50]
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Kinda just [Queer] at Church All the Time, with Heather Jones