S. Bear Bergman - Resume

Education

BFA Hampshire College, Amherst MA. May 1996.
Community Service Scholar.
Additional Coursework in the School of Education, 1997-1999
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts. Consumer Studies 176, Introduction to Marriage, Family, and Intimate Relationships. Spring 1999, Fall 2000.
Instructor, University of Massachusetts. Education 115, Embracing Diversity. Fall 1998, Spring 1999.

Awards and Honors

2005 – Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Playwriting
2005 – Millay Colony Fellowship for Residency
2004 – Best of the Festival Award; Best Socio-Political Play Award. National Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival
2004 – Sponsored Artist, The Fund For Women Artists
2002, 2003 – Rayman Family Arts Foundation Grant
2002 – Best Socio-Political Play Award. National Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival
2001 – UMass Arts Council Grant (for the creation of Ex Post Papa)
1999 – Hampshire County Change Agent Award

Performances

Ex Post Papa: University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, Clark University, American University, Ohio Wesleyan University. University of Notre Dame, University of Massachusetts, New York University, Wells College, Emerson College, Smith College, University of Arizona, University of Utah, Towson University, Syracuse University, University of Connecticut, Hampshire College, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, Cedar Crest College, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth University, 2002 National Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, 2003 National Transgender Theater Festival, True Colors X, OutRight Maine ’04.

Clearly Marked: 2004 National Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, University of Connecticut, Brandeis University, Hampshire College, Cornell University, Wells College, Ragged | Blade Theater, Buffalo United Artists, Oregon State University, National Jewish University LGBT Symposium, Western Kentucky University, Ohio Wesleyan University, University of Guelph, 7 Stages Theater, Nanci Raygun Theater, New York University, KESHET (Boston), SUNY Binghampton, McGill University, Towson University, Center for Sex and Culture, Skidmore College, Washington University, University of Hawaii, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Florida, Stanford University, University of Chicago, Spokane Falls Community College

You’ll Never Piss In This Town Again: Montreal Infringement Festival (2004 & 2005), Hampshire College, University of Guelph, Cornell University.

Performance poetry and prose: Gender Crash (Boston, MA), Queerfest (Amherst, MA) , Food For Thought (Amherst, MA), Queer Arts Fest (Northampton, MA), Queereaders Series (Aurora, NY), Bluestockings (New York, NY), GENDERRBALL (Delaware, Ohio), Heat Between The Sheets (Boston, MA), Cliterati (Decatur, GA), Charis Books, (Atlanta, GA).

Lectures

“The Diaspora Connection: Intersections of Judaism and Trans Experience”
Washington University, March 2006
UNC-Chapel Hill, April 2006
Stanford University, May 2006
University of Chicago, May 2006


“Orientation Swings Like Pendulum Do: Examining Our Concept of Sexual Orientation In The Context Of Gender Destabilization”
Wells College, Sept 2003
Syracuse University, Oct 2003
University of Connecticut, Oct 2003
Hampshire College, Nov 2003
Sarah Lawrence College, Nov 2003
University of Notre Dame, Dec 2003
Clark University, February 2004
Ohio Wesleyan University, March 2004
University of Wisconsin, March, 2004
Harvard University, March 2004
University of Connecticut, October, 2004
Cornell University, November, 2004
University of Guelph, February 2005
Ohio Wesleyan University, March 2005
SUNY Binghampton, November 2005
University of Hawaii, March 2006
University of Chicago, April 2005



“Making Art as Activism”
University of Connecticut, October 2004
Unity NC Conference, March 2006

“Butch Is A Noun”
Women’s Studies Luncheon Lecture/University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah April 2003
Wells College, February 2004
New York University, Sept 2005

“How Do I Have Sex In This Here Gender?”
Wells College
Aurora, NY October 2002

Conference Presentations

“Trans 101: Introduction to the Opposites”
Come Together Kentucky
Western Kentucky University, April 05

“Futurity: Imagining The Future Of Queer Identities”
LGBT Pre-Conference, Association for Theater In Higher Education
New York, NY July 2003

“Queer Mentoring and Queer Families”
True Spirit Conference
Washington D.C. February 2003

Video Projects

GenderCrash Documentary
Featured performer
Release date: Fall ‘06

Genre-Fication: There Goes The Neighborhood”
Culture-jamming video discussing trans inclusion in GLBT literature and literary culture
Interviewer, commentator
November, 2004

“Taking The Last Drag”
Queer anti-smoking video
Actor
August, 2003

Selected Publications

Books

Butch Is A Noun. San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts, 2006

Columns

The Book Bear. Monthly book review column, gendercrash.com. Since 2003.

Anthologies/Periodicals


“The Sadder But Wiser Bear.” Sodom and Me. San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts, 2006 (forthcoming)
“Fair Weather Fatso.” The Fat Studies Reader. San Francisco: FLARE, 2006 (forthcoming)
“Pardon Me, Have You Seen My Sexual Orientation?” Labris. www.labris.org.yu: 2005 (Serbian translation. “Izvinite, da li ste videle/i moju seksualnu orijentaciju?”)
“Protection.” (poem) Homewrecker. New York: Soft Skull, 2005
“Broken Open” (poem) Lodestar Quarterly. www.lodestarquartyerly.com, 2005.
“Forget Marriage, Have A Wedding.” I Do/I Don’t. San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts, 2004
Foreword. National Transgender Theater Festival Reader. New York: Renegade, 2005. (forthcoming)
“Skin.” (poem) Gay and Lesbian Review. Sept/Oct. 2004.
“Day Of Remembrance.” (poem) Transgender Tapestry, Fall/Winter 2003.
“Lifeguard,” “Shameless,” and “The Place We Don’t Name.” (poems) Pinned Down By Pronouns. Amato and Davies, eds. Boston: Conviction, 2003. 7, 143.
“In My Mouth,” Butch Dyke Boy. 2003.
“Lesbears & Transbears,” Bears On Bears. Ron Suresha, ed., 2002. 283-296
“Custom Made,” Tough Girls. Lori Selke, ed., 2002. 200-208

complete publication list available upon request.


Works In Progress

Monday Night In Westerbork. Performance about art, optimism, resistance, and the Westerbork Theater Group (Westerbork concentration camp). National Gay and Lesbian Theater festival World premiere, 14 Sept 2006

The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You: Reflections of Visibly Queer Life