HOW DARE SHE?!?! A PANEL ON HISTORIC WONEN PLAYWRIGHTS WHO SHOCKED

HOW DARE SHE?!?!

2017 ATHE Conference, Planet Hollywood Hotel in Las Vegas

On Saturday, August 5th, 2017, co-sponsored by The Women and Theatre Program and the Theatre History Program, History Matters/Back to the Future sponsored a panel on those daring women playwrights throughout history who were not afraid to shock their audiences. The panel was co-hosted by Professor Laura Lodewyck, North Central College, and Amanda Feldman, Board Memeber, History Matters/Back to the Future. The following papers were presented:

• Expressions of Gender Fluidity in Sor Juana’s Los Empenos de una Casa by Tamara Underiner, Arizona State University
• Epiphany:  Hannah Cowley’s A School for Greybeards and the Scandal Inside the Scandal​ by Melinda Finberg, University of Southern California 
• Performing Politics: Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women, and The Actresses' Franchise League by Megan Stahl, Boston College
• Gertrude Stein and the Introduction of Abstraction by Nicola Tulk, University of Colorado, Boulder