JT Leroy

NICOLE V. GAGNE is the co-author of Soundpieces: Interviews With American Composers and the author of Sonic Transports and Soundpieces 2. The recipient of ASCAP’s 2004 Deems Taylor Award for best magazine article about music, she has contributed music criticism to The New Grove II, BMI Magazine, Ear, Keyboard Classics, Op, Option, and www.newmusicbox.org. Her writings on film have appeared in Film Journal International, Brutarian, Cineaste, and www.allmovie.com. She is the librettist and co-composer of the opera Agamemnon, and author of the one-act play Yet Being Unperfect, which premiered in September 2003 as part of STAGES, the First National Transgender Theater Festival. An excerpt from her first full-length play, The Condemnation, was performed in April 2007.