From the stage to everyday life, theater educator Jo Michael Rezes studies queer identity and the spectrum of gender performance — in its success and failure. Aided by a delightful introduction of campy charm, Rezes explores the freeing potential of playing with gender to better understand ourselves, each other and the spaces we inhabit.

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 e...