In the Lounge The Queer Woods by Dr. Mimi McGurl
About This Show
What does it mean to be in a natural environment? What grows, what lives, what thrives in the space of uncultivated wildness? Queer spaces are most often conceived as built environments; the bookstore, the club, a neighborhood full of rainbow flags. This talk proposes that forests, woodland meadows, and maybe even a large backyard have been there too, offering those of us who never quite fit in a place for self-discovery and acceptance. One part tree science lecture, one part queer literary history, and finally, a meditation on the wilderness as a celebration of diverse humanity and its infinite possibilities.
About this Artist
MIMI McGURL is a freelance theater director, dramaturg, and landscape gardener in the Catskills. An Associate Artist with the Farm Arts Collective, Mimi’s most recent play there was Lucy Joseph about the gender-nonconforming historical figure Joseph Lobdell aka “the Female Hunter of Long Eddy” opened in June and will have another run in November 2025. Mimi also directed Tannis Kowalchuk’s Decompositions and has collaborated on several projects with the North American Cultural Laboratory (Courage, The Weather Project, Shakespeare’s Will). Mimi has taught and directed plays at the Catskill Art Space, NYC’s WOW Cafe Theatre (the Paul Robeson Project), Chashama, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Highways in Los Angeles. Other credits include adjunct faculty at NYU, ACT’s MFA program, Mills College, the University of California, Irvine (MFA) and Stanford University (PhD).
Fri Jul 11 @ 7:30 PM
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Dr. Mimi McGurl