Joshua Bastian Cole

jbastiancole@gmail.com www.joshuabastiancole.weebly.com


Education

2012 Master of Arts - Theater History and Criticism
CUNY, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
GPA: 3.9

Thesis: When Transmen Dance: FTM Embodied Subjectivity and Classical Ballet

Supervisors: Helen Richardson and Meg Araneo-Reddy (thesis); Erin Courtney (playwriting)


2002 Bachelor of Arts
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va
GPA: 3.3

Major: Theatre and Dance
Thesis: Gender is Performance
Minor: Film Studies

Activities and Societies: Division I Varsity Fencing, Stratford Players, Golden Key Honor
Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Army ROTC, Freethinkers, Harmony,
Safe Zones Speaker and Panelist

Awards: Army ROTC Scholarship, Dean's List, Coach's Award (Varsity Fencing)

Semester Abroad London, 2000
London Theatre History - University College London
Shakespeare Intensive and Masterclass with Patrick Spottiswoode and Andrew Gurr
Shakespeares Globe, Bankside, London


Professional Affiliations

Professional Staff Congress/CUNY
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA)
Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)





Conference Presentations

July 2014 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
(anticipated) Dream Acts: Performance as Refuge, Resistance, and Renewal
Workshop: Dream of a Queer Planet: Alternative Embodied Pedagogies
for Actor Training
February 2014 Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
MIGC14: ANIMACY
Paper: Cyborg Alice: Cyborgs and Erin Courtneys The Service Road
October 2013 trans* : Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
Paper: Vanishing Point: Dys-Appearance and the Not-Quite-There of
Transmasculine Spectatorship
August 2013 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
P[L]AY: Performance, Pleasure and Pedagogy
Panel: Training Queer: Intersections of Queer/Gender Studies and
Actor/Performer Training
Paper: Phenomenal Presence of the Transmasculine Actor: Dys-
Appearance, Trans-Parency, Fragmentation, & The Nothing
March 2012 36th Comparative Drama Conference
Paper: Transitioning Twelfth Night: A Transgender Reading of a Female
Page
February 2012 Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics Conference
Paper: When Transmen Dance: Hermeneutics of Dance Masculinities
March 2011 35th Comparative Drama Conference
Paper: Athena in Armor: The Warrior Goddess in Greek Drama as an
Embodiment of Gender Variance
October 2011 Union College Symposium
April 2006 Southeast Regional Unity Conference
February 2003 True Spirit Conference
Trans Forming Families, Author Panel




Publications

Cyborg Alice: Cyborgs and Erin Courtneys The Service Road. Signals: A Contemporary
Performance Journal (2013): n. pag. Web.
Daily Beast Within. Original Plumbing Magazine,
http://originalplumbing.com/index.php/politics-activism/trigger-nation/item/587-the-
daily-beast. August 2013. Web.
Stop the Spot: Polemics of Transmale Stage Representation and Its Criticism. Theatre
Provocateur (2012). n. pag. Web.
A New American Gothic: Tallgrass Gothic at the New Workshop Theater. The Kingsman
[Brooklyn College Newspaper]. 25 Oct. 2010, Arts and Culture: 11. Print.


Some Femmes Dont Wear Heels. Visible: a Femmethology. Ed. Jennifer Clare Burke. Vol. 1.
Ypsilanti: Homofactus Press, 2009. Print.
Tarheels and Transfags. Beyond Masculinity. Ed. Trevor Hoppe.
http://www.beyondmasculinity.com. 2008. Web.
Ill Be Different. With Julie Loyd. Trans-Fusions. 2008. CD.
Real Trans (In)Visibility. Lambda Magazine, [UNC LGBT Magazine]. The Transgender
Issue. December, 2005. Print.
Untitled personal statement. XX Boys. http://www.xxboys.net. 2005. Web.
Tomboy to Femme Boy. Trans Forming Families. Ed. Mary Boenke. New Castle: Oak Knoll
Press, 2003. Print.





Public Appearances in Media

Anderson-Minshall, Jacob. Becoming a Different Kind of Man. TransNation. 4 Nov. 2008.
Cahalane, Claudia. When Girls Will be Boys. Metro. 6 Feb. 2008. London, UK.
Clarke, Jessica. Battle of the Sexes. Daily News-Record. 4 May 2002, Harrisonburg, VA.
Cooper, T. The Trans Fags. Out Magazine. Apr. 2008.
Fenn, Jessica. The Advent of J. Bastian Cole. 2003.
Ferber, Lawrence. Altered Image. Frontiers Magazine. 2001.
Halpern, Ashlea. Date These Trans Folks. Time Out New York. 5 Nov. 2009.
Jeffreys, Angie. Its Good to be King. Hollins Columns. 2003. Roanoke, VA.
Mac, Amos. Original Plumbing Magazine, The Entertainment Issue. 2012.
Moore, Candace. Beyond Narrative and Name. Curve Magazine. Oct. 2009.
Nelson, Corey. Kind of a Drag. The Breeze. 1 Mar. 2004. Harrisonburg, VA.
Osen Averill, Julia. Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: The Personal is Political is Art.
Autostraddle. Feb. 2013.
Paone, Rocco Jr. The Story of J. Bastian Cole. Accept This!!! E-zine. 2004.
Taormino, Tristan. The New Wave of Trans Cinema. The Village Voice. 8 Apr. 2008.
Interview by Diana Cage. Diana Cage Show. Sirius Radio. Dec. 2007. Radio.
Interview by Fausto Fernos. The End? Feast of Fun. 23 July 2007. Podcast.
Interview by Fausto Fernos. Early Transcasting. Feast of Fun. 30 July 2007. Podcast.
Interview by Chelsey Little. 31+ Interviews | Joshua Bastian Cole and Topher Cusumano.
31 Plays in 31 Days. 13 Aug 2012.
Interview by Rhina Valentin. The Birds and the BeesUnabridged. Open. BronxNet. 15 Mar.
2013. Television.
Interview. JMU Bluestone. 2002.








Guest Speaking

Brooklyn College, MA Theatre History guest discussion facilitator, 2014
Union College, 2011
James Madison University, 2008
Wakefield High School GSA, 2008
Guilford College, 2008
Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist Youth Group, 2008
Wakefield High School GSA, 2007
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2007
North Carolina State University, 2006
Sweaty Southern Radical Queer and Trans Convergence, Durham, NC, 2006
Hollins University, 2004
Mary Baldwin College, 2003
Lynchburg Pride, Lynchburg, VA, 2002
Roanoke Unitarian Universalist Youth Group, 2002
Morris Hills High School GSA, 2001
Student speaker at James Madison University and Safe Zones panelist, 2000-2002




Related Work Experience

2012 Present Adjunct Lecturer
CUNY, Borough of Manhattan Community College
New York City
Adjunct lecturer of Fundamentals of Speech - Dept. of Speech, Communications, and Theater
Arts
Students learn to develop effective public speaking, active listening, and critical thinking skills
Consistent favorable faculty observations


2012 Present Operations and Customer Service
Kaplan Bar Review
New York City (temporary assignment through Manpower)
Provide excellent customer service to all inbound and outbound calls and E-mail
correspondence
Process & filing of enrollments, subsequent payments, refunds, discounts/adjustments
Track and manage attendance roster
Process Online Order Shipping






Internships and Volunteering

2012 Present Script Reader
New Georges, New York City
Aid the Literary Department of New Georges with script submissions
Read scripts, write synopses and comments, and make recommendations as to whether the
company should pursue the play or playwright further

2012 2013 Co-Founder and Resident Dramaturg
{Your Name Here} A Queer Theater Company, New York City
Primary member of the Literary Department
Research and development of new works, direct collaboration with playwrights and directors
Script soliciting, submissions review, season planning and curating
Archival research

2011 Department Recruiting (Intern)
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
Assessed and selected competitive undergraduate theater programs in the U.S. and Canada
Compiled extensive faculty contact list from 266 undergraduate colleges and universities

2011 Theater Intern
Time Out New York Magazine, New York City
Intern for noted New York theater critics, David Cote and Adam Feldman
Press release detail verification for weekly print and online magazine performance listings
Audio interview transcriptions























THEATER/
PERFORMANCE
Role/Position/Type Production Venue/Company/Director
2014 Wife of Bath
Ensemble Theatre
Kings of
Macedonia
Brooklyn College MFA
reading series
Andrew Ondrejcak, Jessica
Almasy
2014 Dance Theatre Angry Women
REvisited
HERE Arts Center, NYC
Dir. J Dellecave
2013 Dance Theatre Angry Women
REvisited
Dixon Place, HOT! Festival,
NYC
Dir. J Dellecave
2013 Self
Ensemble Theatre
The Birds and the
Bees:
Unabridged
University Settlement, NYC
Dirs. Maggie Keenan-
Bolger and Rachel Sullivan
2011 Self
Ensemble Theatre
The Box
(development)
Dir. Jared R. Pike
2010 Self
Spoken Word
Nothing, or
Nowhere,
Michigan
Queer Memoir, Queers for
Economic Justice
Performance Space, NYC
2009 Contemporary
Dance
Homing Judson Church, Movement
Research
Yve Laris Cohen
2009 Charlie (lead) White Boys in
Paradise
Ripley-Grier Studios, NYC
Dir. Casey Llewellyn
2009 Performance Art A Bit of Light
Opera
Mongrel Vaudeville,
Freddys Bar, NYC
Bryn Kelly
2009 Modern Dance 7 Voluntary Acts Multiple Exposure III,
Barriskill Dance Theatre
School, Durham, NC
Julie Mulvihill
2008 Lyrical Dance Cornflake Girl Body Language
Transcendence
UNC Chapel Hill
2007 Spoken Word Poems by Spence Tranz This!
Blend, Chapel Hill, NC
2007 Lyrical Dance Snow White
Queen
Tranz This!
Blend, Chapel Hill, NC
2006 Lyrical Dance Shh Cats Cradle, Carrboro, NC
2006 Spoken Word Poems by Cass
Hodges
Unity Conference, Blend,
Chapel Hill
2005 Performance Art Half-Male King Cats Cradle, Cuntry Kings
Carrboro, NC
2004 Performance Art Hey Pretty Gallaghers, Charm City
Boys Baltimore, MD



TECHNICAL/
LITERARY

2014 Dramaturg I Will Be Gone Brooklyn College Play
Reading Festival
Plawright: Erin Courtney
2014 Dramaturg Tragedy of
Dandelion
Urban Stages, NYC
Playwright: Duncan Pflaster
2014 Dramaturg Yellow Clover Fresh Fruit Festival,
Nuyorican Poets Caf, NYC
Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Dir. Sara Lyons
2012 Curator Holiday BLIPS! {Your Name Here}, TADA,
NYC
2012 Dramaturg Untitled Ramn
Novarro Project
{Your Name Here}, TADA
Playwright: James Pugh
2012 Dramaturg Love Poems for
Dead Bodies
{Your Name Here}, TADA
Playwright: MJ Kaufman
2012 Dramaturg Queering History The Producers Club, NYC
Dir. Maggie Keenan-Bolger
2012 Curator BLIPS {Your Name Here}, TADA
2011 Director Twelfth Night
(development)
Independent project
2011 Costume Designer Mouth for String BAX/Brooklyn Arts
Exchange
SAWTOOTH dancers
2003 Asst. Director Vagina
Monologues
Hollins University,
Roanoke, VA
2002 Interviewee Building Houses
on the Moon
(development)
Houses On The Moon
Theater Co.
Playwright: Jeffrey
Solomon

FILM

2010 Sam (lead) The Dinner Party All Gender Health Online
Dir. Melissa Li
2009 Transman (lead) Against a Trans
Narrative
MamSir Productions
Dir. Jules Rosskam
2009 Kirk (lead) Kirk/Spock 3 Minutes in Heaven
Dir. Felix Endara
2009 Russian sailor
(extra)
Maggots and
Men
Postcode Productions
Dir. Cary Cronenwett
2009 Self Gender? FilmArtGender
Dir. JoieRey Cohen
2003 Self gaymotherf*ckers Cricket Dog
Dir. Christy Pessagno