BIOGRAPHY
Jo Michael Rezes
Jo Michael Rezes (they/them) is a nonbinary theatermaker, AEA actor, and transmedia artist based in Greater Boston dedicated to the development of new, queer works which feature transgender collaborators and fabulously grotesque aesthetics. Acting credits: The Rocky Horror Show, Entropy Theatre; Nosferatu, The Vampyr, Sparkhaven Theatre; The Inheritance (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Ensemble), SpeakEasy Stage; Things I Know to Be True (Berkshire Theater Critics Award Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actor; BroadwayWorld Award, Honorable Mention), Great Barrington Public Theater. Directing: Trans [Plays] of Remembrance festival, HowlRound.TV; Cloud 9 (AD; Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Direction), The Nora; Melancholy Play, Vassar College; The Interrobangers, Tufts University; The Rocky Horror Show, Central Square Theater; Queer Voices Festival, Boston Theater Company. Jo instructs gender and performance courses across the country (Yale Dramatic Association, Somerville Arts for Youth, UMass Law, The Theater Offensive)! Their TEDx Talk, “A Playful Exploration of Gender Performance,” is available online. Jo is developing a monograph called Fractals: Nonbinary Acting Methods and facilitates workshops on the subject.