Eddie Maisonet is an interdisciplinary storyteller, teaching artist, and facilitator who is studying to add “dog trainer” to that list. He is a born and bred Boston artist whose 2017 and 2019 artist residencies at The Theater Offensive are collaborative storytelling projects documenting gentrification’s effect on his communities. He creates hybrid poetry and prose narrative informed by his life as an Afro-Boricua, disabled, queer, and trans artist committed to centering themes of wellness in the context of disability, joy, collectivity, humor, and family inheritances.
In 2015, he graduated from Smith College. He has been performing since 2016 and writing since childhood. His work can be found in the anthology Outside The XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity, on Jaded Ibis Press and featured in WBUR’s COVID poetry collection. He has started acting in short theatre works during the pandemic. When he’s not doing his artsy stuff, he’s gaming, thinking about dogs or cuddling his tiny rescue Chiweenie, Twinkie.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Featured Artist in Virtual Open Mic PRIDE: Possibilities of Becoming 2021, presented in partnership with New York Theatre Workshop