More Information About Scott Turner Schofield in Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps

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<p> </p> <p>In Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps, Schofield employs multimedia storytelling, silk fabric acrobatics, and audience participation to reveal just a few of the 127 stories that compose the life of a guy who just happens to have been born a girl. Irreverent and dynamic, graceful and playful, this one-person show engages the deep questions and the locker room jokes about what it means to become a man. Moving beyond the transgender narrative that focuses on the experience of transition, Schofield's stories explore the drama and hilarity of living a new life in the opposite gender. "I changed my sex. Now what?"</p> <p>
Scott Turner Schofield is a man who was a woman, a lesbian turned straight guy who is usually read as a gay teenager. A former debutante and homecoming queen coming out in the Deep South, the work and the life on which it is based contain hilarious contradictions bordered with the possibility of terrifying consequences. Key to the work is a keen awareness of culture and self that maintains a mainstream-accessible perspective even within the most particular of circumstances.</p> <p> </p> <p>As Kt Kilborn, Schofield interned for lesbian performance artists Holly Hughes and Carmelita Tropicana, who directly influenced her early work. She then spent two years working for Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, whose blend of art and activism served as a model for making a social impact as a touring performer.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Kilborn's social, medical, and legal transition to Scott Turner Schofield began in 2004, when he also began touring full-time. Schofield tours year-round, working on college campuses as often as at theatrical institutions.  In addition to consistently sold-out performances, his residencies include lectures, workshops with youth (including fraternities and sororities) and administrators. His blend of advocacy and art has significantly changed non-discrimination policies in universities and municipalities nationwide.</p>

About the Ticket Supplier: Highways Performance Space

Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. Founded in 1989, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.

Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms. Our mission is implemented through four programs (the performance space, workshop/university program and two galleries). Annually, Highways co-presents approximately 250 performances by solo dramatic artists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists; curates and exhibits approximately 12 contemporary visual art exhibits per year with work that explores the boundaries between performing and visual art forms; commissions and premieres new work by outstanding performing artists; organize special events, curate festival, offer residency and educational programs that engage community members in the arts while providing access to professionally-directed instruction.