What does it mean to you to have a transgender woman playing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

Yeah, this is a conversation I've actually been having ever since I came out in college and started playing female and male roles on stage as a trans woman.

For me, I think it's interesting because a lot of people come in with a lot of expectations of how we should be presenting trans people on stage.

However, when I look at theater, it's kind of this magical transformative space.

And the idea of, you know, from something like Hamilton, where it's like, what does it mean to kind of look at, you know, these historical figures? And, you know, how does the lens change when we allow different performers to get to take this on? So I think...

Really, anytime a trans person is on stage playing what is commonly known as a cisgender role, you're kind of just turning the coin and getting to see another facet of this character.

With Mozart especially, Mozart's kind of this other in the script.

If somebody says, who is Rose Morrigan? How do you answer that one?