Assigned Female At Birth: A Web Series About Some Bodies

One other Nation Productions launched Episode 1 of Assigned Feminine at Start on YouTube on October 25, 2020

Early within the pandemic award-winning author Lyralen Kaye started collaborating in on-line festivals introduced on Zoom, YouTube and Fb Stay, as theater and movie artists did everywhere in the world. Within the course of, Kaye met Clare Solly, who steered Kaye write a play about physique picture.

Actually each thought it will concentrate on measurement. However Kaye, who identifies as a non-binary gender fluid pansexual dwelling with a PTSD incapacity, started reaching out to queer communities and communities of shade for interview topics, and so AFAB took on a lifetime of its personal.

“Physique is race, gender, identification, age, means and measurement,” Kaye says. “You’ll be able to’t write about physique picture in immediately’s world and never enter the issues of intersectionality.”

The sequence follows the lives of three {couples} and their rapid households. The characters embrace an agender trans man who needs to get married in a gown, zir combined race lover who is unquestionably not on board, a black lesbian who doesn’t like her trans husband’s new penis and a non-binary therapist with a prognosis of their very own working to decide to their recovering addict accomplice.

Because the sequence developed, so did the work of artists on line, and Kaye noticed the restrictions of Zoom performs and readings. They started to jot down towards a hybrid documentary/internet sequence/theater format and to interview Administrators of Pictures with a single query: may actors filming in several places be made to seem like they had been dwelling in the identical rooms? The reply appeared to be a hesitant sure, so filming started on September 9.

Utilizing Zoom to view and instruct, the AFAB crew started to movie scenes with 23 actors utilizing sensible telephones, Filmic Professional, breakout Zoom rooms and exterior microphones. Lead actors carried out from their houses in New York Metropolis, Salem, MA, San Francisco, Chicago, Pottstown, PA, Vancouver, WA and Los Angeles.

The Greek refrain who symbolize the interviewees are unfold even wider. The story of Assigned Feminine at Start, which features a distinctive concentrate on the physique as a personality in and of itself, tells tales of grief, identification, oppression and the absurdity of every part human.

The sequence options Jen Lanier as Makayla (Washington), Jamie Black as Carl (Chicago), MJ Fowl as Zander (Pottstown), Tina D’Elia as Sofia (San Francisco), Clare Solly as Melanie (Astoria, NY), Alex Alexander as Bailey (Salem, MA), Carrie Gibson as Phyllis (Los Angeles) and Lyralen Kaye as Daire (Salem, MA).