Schell also said after they fainted from anemia due to the condition, the stage manager and a “main higher-up” pressured them to perform that night they later collapsed on their way to a dressing room and were allowed to leave. In a lengthy statement, Schell claimed that they had issues communicating with the stage-management team around their polycystic ovary syndrome diagnosis, and that the stage manager never told the creative team about Schell’s diagnosis, after previously saying they would. READ BELOW: /bqM4OOzHa3- Nora Schell September 24, 2021 Then, days after the production statement, on September 24, Schell tweeted that they were “intimidated, coerced and forced by multiple higher ups to put off CRITICAL AND NECESSARY surgery to remove growths from my vagina that were making me anemic” when the show was in previews.ĭuring previews for the Broadway run of JAGGED LITTLE PILL I was intimidated, coerced and forced by multiple higher ups to put off CRITICAL AND NECESSARY surgery to remove growths from my vagina that were making me anemic. Nora Schell, another nonbinary actor formerly involved in the production, tweeted that the production “failed me, and perpetuated violence against a mentally ill black femme” on September 7, after attending the Transgender March on Broadway. “We are asking for basic care and we are gaslit.” “Be aware that this is NOT enough,” zie added in another tweet. “They don’t see the absolute PAIN this causes! i have PTSD!!!!!!,” Iris Menas, a nonbinary actor who was formerly the understudy for Jo, tweeted after producers released their statement. Yet in the days following that statement, trans actors involved with the Alanis Morissette jukebox musical have further criticized their interactions with the transgender community. Producers released a statement on September 17 addressing the long controversy around the role of Jo - who was clearly a nonbinary character in the show’s Boston previews, but whose gender became ambiguous on Broadway, with the cisgender actor who played the role telling Vulture in 2020 that “Jo never was written as anything other than cis.” In the statement confirming that Jo is a nonbinary character, the producers wrote, “We want to recognize the reasonable and deeply felt upset around the issues of transparency and accountability and the character of Jo,” and outlined a plan to improve the show’s portrayal of trans and nonbinary identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ahead of its return to Broadway next month, Jagged Little Pill is facing criticism over its relationship to the transgender community, and specifically treatment of trans actors in the show.
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