Mark Spina and Lynn Marie Macy sit down 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 

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

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

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