First-Person: Johanna Nutter on My Pregnant Brother (SummerWorks)

Starting SummerWorks
by Johanna Nutter
[ED: This article is a reprint from Ms Nutter's blog. You can follow the entire saga of My Pregnant Brother at the company website mypregnantbrother.com]

For those of you who followed my Good People blogs in Boston, you’ll understand why the picture at the top was a funny thing to walk past on my way to Theatre Passe Muraille. 

Interview with Johanna Nutter of My Pregnant Brother (SummerWorks)

I can quite clearly say that it’s not for me to answer trans-gender questions...I can tell you what it’s like to be the sister of a trans-gendered person.

Upstage - Theatre on Radio (CKUT, Montreal) host Eric Sukhu spoke with Playwright/Performer Johanna Nutter about My Pregnant Brother presented as part of SummerWorks. [This article first appeared at The Charlebois Post - Montreal]

UPSTAGE:   There’s likely many people who haven’t seen it yet. Tell us about it.

NUTTER:  It played in English at Centaur, and at La Licorne in French. Often I had to explain to people - I know it sounds like a stand up show but it’s not. Now I have to do the opposite because it [was] in the Just For Laughs Festival and Zoofest.

My Pregnant Brother might sound like a Howie Mandel routine. But it’s not. It’s a true story about me and my family. My brother is trans-gendered. He used to be my sister. In 2006 he stopped taking his hormone injections and during that time he got pregnant. He decided to keep the baby and was hoping that I would join him and the three of us would become a family together.