Seren Sonell (Interviewer & Narrator)

Seren Sonell (she/they/) is an autistic, high femme, NYC-based interdisciplinary theatre artist, writer, and homemaker-scholar of Joan of Arc, fandom, storytelling, and adaptation. She came to a virtual Shabbat service in 2021 a week into considering conversion to Judaism and has never felt more at home in a faith space. Seren is a member of Kolot’s Morning Blessings group, the place she credits with teaching her liturgy and letting her be “Jewish enough” during conversion. She is also a member of the design and post production teams for the oral history project. When not engaged in lively religious debate with her Muslim theologian wyfe Olivia, she can often be found researching Joan of Arc, whom she has studied and made theatre about for over a decade, or presenting at conferences on topics as varied as queer retellings of Hans Christian Andersen to adaptations of Heathers, or creating theatre about disability, queerness, and gender identity. Her fiction work has been taught at Stonybrook University. She was thrilled to complete conversion in May of 2022 and looks forward to building a feminist, anti-zionist, interfaith Jewish home.

 

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