Recent Podcasts

Nicolas continues their conversation with Keyshia Pearl and Roney Jones, digging into LOUD Queer Youth Theatre’s youth-led, adult-supported program model and how the ensemble provides long-term community, and artistic and professional development for Black and indigenous trans and queer youth. 

Gender Euphoria: The Podcast returns for season three. Host Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews Miss Keyshia Pearl and Roney Jones of LOUD Queer Youth Theatre about the ensemble’s programming, devising practices, and political education with Black and Indigenous trans and queer youth in New Orleans.

This episode explores how Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian folklore and performance create joy, belonging, and political imagination for young audiences in Fairytale Players. These plays also address gaps in representation and the urgent need for culturally specific youth theatre.

This episode is a deep dive into Golden Thread’s evolution. Sahar Assaf reflects on leadership, hybridity, and making Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian theatre beyond stereotypes—centering community, complexity, and art as resistance in moments of crisis.

Playwright Yussef El Guindi reflects on Golden Thread’s pivotal second decade; writing in the post-9/11 landscape; and how Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian  theatre carved space for nuance, resistance, and community in the US. 

This episode is a deep dive into the founding of Golden Thread Productions with founding artistic director Torange Yeghiazarian—tracing how one artist’s vision grew into a movement that reshaped Middle Eastern theatre in the US.