#176 - Tiresias, Theatrical Chimera
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Tiresias is a hybrid writer, director, composer, performer, puppeteer, mythmaker and ritualist based in Brooklyn. Called “a rara avis of experimental theatre” by The New Yorker and “one of the most enchanting performers in New York City” by The Brooklyn Rail. Tiresias has developed more than 20 original theatre productions on 3 continents, and presented performances throughout the world at venues including as Joe’s Pub, MaHalla (Berlin), MoMA PS1, Ars Nova, Teatro Lúcido (CDMX), The Brick, The House of Yes, HERE Arts, and the Edinburgh Fringe. They have received residencies and grants from MacDowell, Ucross, Millay Arts, The Princess Grace Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, and many more, as well as Luce, Marshall and Fulbright fellowships. Their latest show, New Weird Futures: A Work In Process, is described as "A SPECULATIVE ECO-OPERA AND PUPPET PAGEANT-IN-PROCESS THAT IMAGINES FUTURES OF MULTISPECIES FLOURISHING IN THE RUINS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE,” and it will be will be up at La MaMa in NYC from Nov 12-15, 2026.
On this episode, Tiresias discusses how their work engages imagination to conjure interspecies empathy, their attraction to myths of metamorphosis, and why they define drag as “the queer art of transformation.”
Pam also talks about the notion of re-enchantment, and answers a listener question about finding green witch resources.
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