PODCAST 26: On Her Shoulders
Sunday, September 24
Lynn Marie Macy sits down with Mark Spina to discuss the On Her Shoulders project, spearheaded by the New Perspectives Theatre Company, which strives to make it impossible for producers and theater companies to deny or ignore the 1,000-year history and value of women's contribution to the theatrical canon.
Credits:
Audio Engineer Gary Glor
One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou
Playwrights:
Aphra Behn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn
Fanny Burney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Calder%C3%B3n_de_la_Barca
Rachel Carothers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Crothers
Susanna Centlivre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Centlivre
Alice Childress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress
Mercedes de Costa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_de_Acosta
Olympe de Gouges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympe_de_Gouges
Ana Caro de Mallén
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Caro_de_Mall%C3%A9n#:~:text=El%20conde%20partinupl%C3%A9s%20and%20Valor,that%20are%20still%20known%20today.
Lope de Vega
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega
Martin Denton
https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Martin-Denton/
Madame DesJardin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Catherine_de_Villedieu
Susan Glaspell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Glaspell
Hildegard of Bingen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen
Pauline Hopkins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hopkins
Hrotsvitha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha
Zora Neale Hurston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston
Estelle Anna Lewis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Anna_Lewis
Dawn Powell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Powell
Susanna Rowson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Rowson
George Sand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand
Freddie Schiller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller
Frances Chamberlin Sheridan
https://www.juggernaut-theatre.org/first-100-years-the-professional-female-playwright/frances-chamberlaine-sheridan/
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan
Catherine Trotter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_Trotter_Cockburn
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Charlotte and Caroline von Langfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_von_Lengefeld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_von_Wolzogen
Charlotte von Stein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_von_Stein
Mercy Otis Warren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Otis_Warren
References:
Lynn Marie Macy
https://lynnmariemacy.com/
Melody Brooks
https://www.newperspectivestheatre.org/artistic-director
Access info about On Her Shoulders and the Database from this page:
https://www.newperspectivestheatre.org/on-her-shoulders-page
Theater 2020
https://www.theater2020.com/
5050 x 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5050x2020
Hedgepig Ensemble
https://www.hedgepigensemble.org/
Expand The Canon:
https://www.hedgepigensemble.org/expand-the-canon?gclid=Cj0KCQjwuZGnBhD1ARIsACxbAVgW6W74Rz_p-ngE3GzcwD6d8iSkD9j5BBE9GtpkhjLsNnd2g4Tt8l4aAiYhEALw_wcB
Goethe and the Weimar Circle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Classicism#:~:text=The%20Weimarer%20Klassik%20movement%20lasted,during%20the%20period%201788%E2%80%931805.
League of Professional Theatre Women:
https://www.theatrewomen.org/
WP Theater:
https://wptheater.org/
History Matters:
https://www.historymatterscelebratingwomensplaysofthepast.org/
Parity Productions:
https://parityproductions.org/
Los Angeles Female Playwrights initiative:
https://lafpi.com/
The Count:
https://the-lillys.org/the-count-1
Plays/Works:
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman
Dido by Charlotte von Stein
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23980730
Dido by Christopher Marlowe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido,_Queen_of_Carthage_(play)
Dido and Aeneas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas
Lady Susan or The Captive Heart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Heart
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northanger_Abbey
Rights of Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Man
Sappho of Lesbos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SDtZdT8sA
Articles:
CELEBRATING 1,000 YEARS OF WOMEN WRITING PLAYS
https://witonline.org/2022/03/21/celebrating-1000-years-of-women-writing-plays/
(Women’s) History Matters
https://howlround.com/womens-history-matters
New York State Council on the Arts Report
REPORT ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN: A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT?
https://www.womenarts.org/nysca-report-2002/
Opening the curtain - Thesis tackles gender bias in American theater
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/opening-curtain
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