{"id":5672,"date":"2019-04-26T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=5672"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:52:51","slug":"obie-award-winner-ain-gordons-217-boxes-of-dr-henry-anonymous-makes-kentucky-debut-at-transylvania-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2019\/04\/obie-award-winner-ain-gordons-217-boxes-of-dr-henry-anonymous-makes-kentucky-debut-at-transylvania-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Obie Award winner Ain Gordon\u2019s &#8216;217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous&#8217; makes Kentucky debut at Transylvania University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/KenMarks_217BOXES_by_PaulaCourt-810x540.jpeg\" alt=\"Ken Marks as Ercel Fryer in 217 BOXES OF DR. HENRY ANONYMOUS\" class=\"wp-image-5673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/KenMarks_217BOXES_by_PaulaCourt-810x540.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/KenMarks_217BOXES_by_PaulaCourt-350x233.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/KenMarks_217BOXES_by_PaulaCourt-730x487.jpeg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/KenMarks_217BOXES_by_PaulaCourt-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/KenMarks_217BOXES_by_PaulaCourt-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/KenMarks_217BOXES_by_PaulaCourt-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/KenMarks_217BOXES_by_PaulaCourt.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><figcaption><em>Ken Marks as Ercel Fryer in &#8220;217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous.&#8221; Photo by Paula Court. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. John Fryer, a seminal but overlooked, pioneer in the battle for LGBTQ equality is honored in the play &#8220;217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous&#8221; written and directed by three-time Obie award-winning playwright Ain Gordon. Fryer, a 1957 graduate of Transylvania, helped declassify homosexuality as a mental disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pick Up Performance Co(s) production of the New York Times Critic\u2019s pick will be presented at Transylvania\u2019s Lucille C. Little Theater May 16 &#8211; 19. Tickets are free and cash or check donations will be collected at the door to benefit the John Fryer Fund for Diversity and Inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1972 Dr. John Fryer, calling himself Dr. Henry Anonymous, donned an oversize tuxedo and rubber joke-shop mask to confront the American Psychiatric Association with these words: \u201cI am a psychiatrist, I am a homosexual.\u201d The testimony of Dr. Anonymous helped remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but who was Dr. Fryer? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a two-year residency at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, which houses Dr. Fryer\u2019s papers, Gordon combed through his 217 boxes of personal notes, professional papers and childhood relics to create a compelling theatrical tribute to the man whose galvanizing testimony led to one of the most significant moments in the history of the gay-rights movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon\u2019s play conjures three key figures from Fryer\u2019s life, asking each\nto draw a portrait of the man behind the mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cast includes Drama Desk and Obie Award winner Betsy Aidem, Derek Lucci, and Broadway veteran Ken Marks (Mamma Mia, Dear Evan Hansen, Dancing at Lughnasa, Hairspray), with a creative team that includes Nick Ryckert (Lighting and Projection Design), Ed Fitzgerald (Production Stage Manager), Kelly Martin (Production Supervisor) and&nbsp;Alyce Dissette (Producer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lexington production is funded in part\nthrough contributions by Transylvania alumni, JustFundKY, Rainmaker\nHospitality, former Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, former LexArts President and CEO\nJim Clark, the University of Kentucky Office of LGBTQ* Resources and other\nindividuals and organizations who support equality and civil rights for LGBTQ\npeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. on May 16, 17 and 18 and at 2:30 p.m. on May 19. Tickets may be reserved on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/about\/theater-program\/season\">transy.edu website<\/a>. There will be a talk-back session with Gordon after the opening performance on May 16.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Who\u2019s Who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DR. JOHN FRYER<\/strong> was born in Winchester Kentucky in 1937 and earned\nhis bachelor\u2019s degree from Transylvania University. He graduated from\nVanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1962. After entering a psychiatry\nresidency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, he was\ndischarged when it was learned that he was homosexual. He completed his\nresidency at a Pennsylvania mental hospital and became a private practitioner\nand psychiatry professor at Temple University School of Medicine. In the late\n1960s, seminal gay pioneers Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings focused on\noverturning the federal government\u2019s ban on gay and lesbian employees and the\nAPA\u2019s classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. Kameny and Gittings\nconvinced the APA to host a panel entitled \u201cPsychiatry: Friend or Foe to the\nHomosexual?\u201d and then decided they needed to bring in a psychiatrist who would\nadmit their homosexuality. But because of societal approbation, risk of loss of\nmedical licensure, and impact on patients and professional standing, Kameny and\nGittings could not find a psychiatrist to serve on the panel. Ultimately, Fryer\nagreed to serve on the panel using the name Dr. Henry Anonymous and disguised\nwith a mask and voice modulator. His testimony was so compelling that the APA\nconvened a special committee to study the classification. At the 1973 Annual\nMeeting, the membership voted to remove homosexuality as a mental illness. As a\nresult, the treatments for homosexuality were terminated and the classification\ncould not be used to justify government policy. Fryer was also one of the first\npsychiatrists to treat patients with HIV and those with AIDS related\nbereavement issues. The APA\u2019s highest annual civil rights award is named in\nJohn Fryer\u2019s memory. There is a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission historic\nmarker for John Fryer in Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania\nhouses the John Fryer archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AIN GORDON\u00a0<\/strong>(Playwright\/ Director) is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer\/director\/actor, a two-time NYFA recipient and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting. Gordon\u2019s work focuses on marginalized or forgotten histories and the invisible players inhabiting that space. Recent Projects include\u00a0<em>Radicals In Miniature<\/em>; a series of requiems to personal icons that premiered May 2017 at Baryshnikov Arts Center and Vermont Performance Lab with touring to International Festival of Arts &amp; Ideas, Quick Center, Connecticut College (all CT), plus Williams College and The Yard (both MA); <em>217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous\u00a0<\/em>culminating a two-year residency at the\u00a0Historical\u00a0Society of Pennsylvania funded by the Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage focused on the papers of Dr. John Fryer who, disguised as Dr. Anonymous, faced the American Psychiatric Association in\u00a01972\u00a0opposing the classification of homosexuality as a disease \u2013 premiered Painted Bride Arts Center (PA) May\u00a02016,\u00a0Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY) 2018, fall 2019 touring to CAP UCLA;\u00a0<em>Not What Happened,<\/em>\u00a0an examination of the politics of historical reenactment via a contrapuntal duet for two people that never meet: the historical re-enactor\u00a0and the woman she portrays \u2013 BAM Next Wave Festival September 2013, Krannert Center (IL), Flynn Center (VT), etc; and\u00a0<em>If She Stood\u00a0<\/em>inspired by the Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society; a multiracial collective that almost accidentally discovered feminism \u2013 May 2012 Painted Bride (PA). Gordon is a former Core Writer of the Playwright\u2019s Center (MN), has twice been a Visiting Artist at the Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage (PA), a 2014 Artist-In-Residence at NYU Tisch School of The Arts, and Resident Artist at The Hermitage (FL) and will be an Atlantic Center for the Arts \u201cMaster Artist In Residence\u201d in 2020. Gordon is Co-Founder of the Urban Memory Project and has been Co-Director of the Pick Up Performance Co(s) since 1992.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aingordon.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.aingordon.nyc<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PICK UP PERFORMANCE CO(S) <\/strong>was founded in 1971 and incorporated in 1978 (as Pick Up Performance Co., Inc.) to facilitate projects by David Gordon, the company was expanded in 1992 to include projects by Ain Gordon and renamed <strong>Pick Up Performance Co(s)<\/strong> in recognition of the dual father\/son leadership with independent projects by each artist. PUPCos continues to be artist-led with multi-generational NYC roots supporting the wide-roaming interests of both artists in dance, theater, media, social practice, and the fusing of disciplines. This work manifests annually in both New York City and nationally. 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