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The Theater Project Thinks About...


On HER Shoulders

September 24, 2023

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