Joshua Bastian Cole

e-mail: jbastiancole@gmail.com | website: joshuabastiancole.weebly.com

Education: City University of New York, Brooklyn College Completed 5/2012 Master of Arts o Theater History and Criticism o Thesis: When Transmen Dance: FTM Embodied Subjectivity and Classical Ballet o GPA: 3.9 James Madison University Completed 5/2002 Bachelor of Arts o Major: Theater and Dance o Minor: Film Studies o Thesis: Gender is Performance o GPA: 3.4 o Deans List o ROTC Scholarship o Division I Varsity Fencing

Selected Employment Experience: Kaplan Bar Review November 2012 Present (temporary assignment through Manpower) Operations and Customer Service Provide excellent customer service to all inbound and outbound calls and E-mail correspondence Process & filing of enrollments, subsequent payments, refunds, discounts/adjustments Track and manage attendance roster Process Online Order Shipping City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College August 2012 Present Adjunct Lecturer Fundamentals of Speech - Dept. of Speech, Communications, and Theater Arts Students learn to develop effective public speaking, active listening, and critical thinking skills Participating lecturer in College Now program {Your Name Here}: A Queer Theater Company January 2012 - Present Resident Dramaturg Primary member of the Literary Department Research and development of new works, direct collaboration with playwrights and directors Script soliciting, submissions review, season planning and curating

Brooklyn College, Department of Theater August 2011 - October 2011 Department Recruiting Assessed and selected competitive undergraduate theater programs in the U.S. and Canada Compiled extensive faculty contact list from 266 undergraduate colleges and universities Awarded fall semester tuition waiver in compensation Time Out New York Magazine May 2011 August 2011 Theater Intern Press release fact-checking Weekly print and online magazine performance listings Audio interview transcriptions New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Downtown Brooklyn Office January 2010 - April 2011 Operations and Customer Service Direct customer service in high-volume environment Required highly focused attention to detail Responsible for knowledge on foreign and domestic identity documentation Professional Memberships: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Professional Staff Congress/CUNY

Conference Presentations: ATHE, P[L]AY: Performance, Pleasure and Pedagogy, August 2013 Training Queer: Intersections of Queer/Gender Studies and Actor/Performer Training (panelist) 36th Comparative Drama Conference, March 2012 Transitioning Twelfth Night: A Transgender Reading of a Female Page CORD Special Topics Conference, February 2012 When Transmen Dance: Hermeneutics of Dance Masculinities 35th Comparative Drama Conference, March 2011 Athena in Armor: The Warrior Goddess in Greek Drama as an Embodiment of Gender Variance

Publications: Stop the Spot: Polemics of Transmale Stage Representation and Its Criticism. Theatre Provocateur. Ed. Jared R. Pike. 2012. A New American Gothic: Tallgrass Gothic at the New Workshop Theater. The Kingsman [Brooklyn College Newspaper] 25 Oct. 2010, Arts and Culture: 11. Some Femmes Dont Wear Heels. Visible: a Femmethology, Volume One. Ed. Jennifer Clare Burke. Ypsilanti: Homofactus Press, 2009. Tarheels and Transfags. Beyond Masculinity. Ed. Trevor Hoppe. <http://www.beyondmasculinity.com.2008>. Real Trans (In)Visibility. Lambda Magazine, The Transgender issue. December, 2005. Tomboy to Femme Boy. Trans Forming Families. Ed. Mary Boenke. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. Guest Speaking: Union College 2011, Duke University 2009, Guilford College 2008, James Madison University 2008, UNC Chapel Hill 2007, NC State University 2006, Hollins University 2004, Mary Baldwin College 2003 Skills: Dramaturgy, Dramatic Literature, Playwriting, Shakespeare, Performance Studies, Arts Administration, Research, Theater History, Dance History, Classical Ballet, New Play Development, Customer Service, Public Speaking References available upon request