Colour of Trans 2.0 is an evocative performance by trans activists Living Smile Vidya, Angel Glady and Gee Imaan Semmalar. It traces the experiences of the actors themselves through seven episodes. The performances mixes the forms of cabaret, monologues, clown theatre, commedia del arte, pathos, realism, film and theatre of the absurd.Colour of Trans 2.0 is for anyone interested in questions of self representation, trans activism, caste and new interventions in theatre.
About the actors
Gee Imaan Semmalar is a savarna trans activist from Kerala. He holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College and an MA in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has written, directed and acted in a multilingual, docu-fiction film on transmen titled 'Kalvettukal' which has been screened in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Madurai, Kerala and Sweden. He has been writing about trans issues for several leading newspapers in India including DNA, Bombay and New Indian Express, Chennai. He lives in Bangalore and was a radio host for a show on 'Q radio', an online LGBT radio channel. He has worked on building alliances with several movements over the years and believes that anti caste gender activism is crucial for actualising any revolutionary social change.
Living Smile Vidya is a dalit transwoman, theatre actor, writer, poet and artist from Trichy, Tamil Nadu. She holds a Masters degree in Linguistics. Smiley received the Charles Wallace Award in 2013 for her excellence in Theatre. She has staged more than 100 shows of 20 plays with 9 eminent theatre directors. She is the author of I am Vidya which is the first transgender autobiography to be published in India. It has been translated into over 6 other indian languages and is part of the syllabus of B.A. English in Stella Maris College, Chennai, India. Her essays and poems are published in magazines in many commercial magazines, literary magazines and online magazines. As a self-taught artist, she started drawing since 2010. She has done five exhibitions in Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi. She also has experience in Tamil cinema industry and has been Assistant Director, Associate Director and actor in Tamil and Malayalam films.
Angel Glady is a Bahujan trans woman from Tamil Nadu. She has studied M.A. mass communication in University of Madras. She is a theatre actor and has worked with french clowns from "clowns without border" and a South Korean theatre group called "TUIDA". She feels art is the best tool to make a revolution and is co-founder of a trans theatre group called Panmai theatre in Chennai.
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