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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 136, International Women Playwrights Conference Records, 1984-2006 (bulk 1987-1989), University Archives, The State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Acquisition InformationThe University Archives received the collection from Anna Kay France in October 2005. Dr. France donated additional materials in August 2007.
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The 1st International Women Playwrights Conference (IWPC) was held October 14-23, 1988 in Buffalo, New York under the sponsorship of the University at Buffalo. Directed by Anna Kay France and an internationally represented planning committee, the goal of the conference was to bring together major international women playwrights, directors, and scholars to share and discuss their work and field. The conference brought together more than 200 women playwrights from over 30 countries around the world. Conference organizers reached local and national communities by arranging the production of plays by participating women playwrights at several Buffalo theatres, creating a video production for public broadcast, and through various publications.
Soon after the completion of the 1st IWPC, the International Center for Women Playwrights (ICWP) was established in Buffalo, New York. Considered the logical sequence to the 1st IWPC, its mission was to support and advance the work of women playwrights by encouraging the international production and distribution of their work. The ICWP also assumed partial responsibility for planning future conferences. Before closing its offices in 1997, the ICWP organized the 2nd IWPC (Toronto, Canada, 1991). They also supported the International Advisory Committee (IAC), a committee organized in 1991 to plan subsequent conferences including the 3rd IWPC (Adelaide, Australia, 1994), and the 4th IWPC (Galway, Ireland, 1997). In 1998 the IAC drafted a charter for a new international women playwrights organization, Women Playwrights International (WPI). WPI assumed complete responsibility for planning and convening future IWPCs and is active to date.
Anna Kay France
Anna Kay France, a
former faculty member of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University
at Buffalo, was Director of the First International Women Playwrights
Conference (Buffalo, New York, 1988). She later served as liaison and advisor
for the International Center for Women Playwrights, and as Secretary of the
International Advisory Committee for the 3rd IWPC (Adelaide, Australia, 1994).
Her publications include
International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity
and Transformation (Proceedings of the First IWPC), Scarecrow Press,
1993. Also a published playwright, France's
Penumbra received the Artie award for
outstanding new play, Buffalo, 2002.
This collection represents the papers of former University at Buffalo professor Anna Kay France as related to her involvement in the organization of the 1st International Women Playwrights Conference (IWPC). It documents the organization and convening of the first conference including biographical information, scripts, and correspondence with select national and international women playwrights of the 1980s. In addition, the collection contains administrative papers including correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, transcripts of audio recording of conference sessions, and manuscript drafts of France's book, International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation (Proceedings of the First IWPC).
The collection also documents the organization and activities of the International Center for Women Playwrights (ICWP). It includes meeting agendas and minutes, event flyers and programs, and correspondence. In addition, it documents the ICWP's involvement in the planning of the 2nd-4th IWPCs, as well as its relationship with the International Advisory Committee.
The collection is organized into two series: I. 1st International Women Playwrights Conference, and II. International Center for Women Playwrights.
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I. 1st International Women Playwrights Conference,
1984-1992 |
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Series I is arranged into three subseries: Administration, Playwrights, and Conference. |
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| This subseries includes folders maintained by Nancy C. Doherty, the 1st IWPC's administrative assistant. | ||
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| 1.1-1.3 |
Addresses and mailing lists,
1986-1989, includes correspondence.
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| 1.4 |
Benefits and events,
1988; includes correspondence, press
releases, flyers, programs, and clippings.
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| 1.5 |
Conference participant questionnaires, undated [See
also questionnaires filed in
Subseries I.B:
Playwrights]
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| 1.6 |
Conference proposal,
1986; includes evaluation of
pre-proposal.
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| 1.7-1.8 |
Conference reports,
1988-1989; includes post-conference
correspondence, overview, final reports, expense summary, and planning
guidelines.
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| 1.9-1.10 |
Contributions,
1987-1988; includes lists of contributors,
advertising, translators, and funding sources and brochure.
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| 1.11 |
Fact sheets,
1988
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| 1.12 |
Filming,
1988; includes contract with AVID
Production, Inc. , and release form.
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| 1.13 |
International Arts Entreprises, Inc. (IAE): Kathleen
Bannon, Executive Director,
1987-1988
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| 2.1-2.2 |
International playwrights,
1987-1988; includes report and
correspondence on funding and travel arrangements.
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File originally maintained by Nancy C. Doherty. |
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| 2.3 |
International Voices (conference production),
1988; includes scripts for Sharon
Pollock's play
Blood Relations and Ludmila
Petrushevskaya's play
Nets and Traps.
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| 2.4 |
Logo design,
1988; includes variations of design and
correspondence.
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| 2.5 |
Organization plans,
1988; includes timelines.
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| 2.6-2.11 |
Other conferences, 1998-2003; includes posters and
programs for the First and Second Conference on Asian Women and Theatre (1992
and 2000), an outgrowth of the First IWPC, and program materials for the
Governor's Conference on Arts and Technology attended by Anna Kay France in
1998. Also includes monograph,
The 2nd Conference for Asian Women and
Theatre: A Compilation of Plays.
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| 2.12-3.1 |
Planning Committee meetings,
1987-1989; includes agendas, minutes, and
correspondence.
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Planning Committee meeting recordings,
1987; contains audio cassette tape
recordings of two meetings held January 30th and 31st, 1987.
[5 audio cassettes] |
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| 3.2-3.8 |
Publicity and press releases,
1987-1988; includes correspondence, media
list, public relations plan, playwright biographies, clippings, and photographs
of the University at Buffalo and the city of Buffalo.
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| 3.9 |
Registration brochure,
1988; includes timeline for production and
draft.
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| 3.10 |
Registration cancellations,
1988; includes correspondence.
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| 3.11 |
Registrants,
1988; includes walk-in
registrants.
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| 3.12 |
Rhythm of Life (conference production),
1988; includes brochure.
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| 3.13 |
Schedules,
1986-1988; includes timelines and program
schedule drafts.
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Taped planning meetings,
1987; includes recordings of 1st IWPC
planning meetings held January 30th-31st 1987.
[5 audio cassettes] |
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| 3.14 |
Theatre reply forms,
1988
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File originally maintained by Nancy C. Doherty. |
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| 3.15-4.2 |
Travel and housing arrangements,
1987-1988; includes travel and housing
master schedules and contact lists.
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Correspondence documents the organization of the conference including local and regional outreach for its promotion and support. |
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| 4.3-4.6 |
Advisory board,
1986-1991; includes reply forms, lists
of advisory board members, and playwrights.
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| 4.7-4.8 |
Buffalo, New York,
1986-1988; includes correspondence with
local organizations, such as Buffalo Place, Inc. , YWCA, Buffalo and Erie
County Public Library, and the City of Buffalo.
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| 4.9-5.3 |
Critics and scholars,
1987-1988
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| 5.4-5.5 |
Dramatists Guild,
1987-1992; includes select issues of
The Dramatists Guild
Newsletter.
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| 5.6 |
Erie County,
1987-1988; includes Erie County Hall,
Erie County Legislature, and First International Women Playwrights Conference
Information Packet.
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| 5.7-5.10 |
Planning Committee,
1986-1989; includes clippings, and
curriculum vita of select planning committee members.
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| 5.11 |
Playwright organizations,
1987-1988; includes publications by the
New Dramatists.
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Possible presenters,
1987-1991; includes curriculum vita,
proposals, and list of invited scholars.
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| 5.12-5.13 |
Printers and publishers, 1987-1989
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| 6.1 |
State University of New York (SUNY),
1987-1988; includes Office of Programs
in the Arts, SUNY-Brockport Department of Theatre, and New York State Writers
Institute.
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| 6.2-6.3 |
Theatres: Buffalo,
1985-1988; includes Alleyway Theatre,
Franklin Street Theatre/T.O.Y. Company, Lancaster Opera House, Studio Arena,
and Ujima Company. Also includes clipping on
Lorna
Hill, participant and University at Buffalo professor.
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| 6.4-6.5 |
Theatres: national and international,
1986-1992; includes The Omaha Magic
Theatre, UBU Repertory Theatre, clippings, and press materials for select
theatres.
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| 6.6-6.7 |
Theatre professionals,
1988-1989; includes Vinnie
Burrows.
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| 6.8-6.9 |
University at Buffalo,
1986-1989; includes English Department,
African American Studies, Theatre and Dance Department, Office of Sponsored
Programs, and Jon Whitmore, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Letters.
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| 6.10-6.13 |
Volunteers,
1987-1988; includes lists of volunteers,
meeting agendas, mailing schedules, and contact list for Buffalo women's
groups.
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| 6.14 |
General correspondence, 1987-1988; includes
post-conference appreciation letters, and conference letterhead.
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| 7.1 |
Budget summaries,
1987-1989
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| 7.2 |
City of Buffalo funding,
1988
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File originally maintained by Nancy C. Doherty. |
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| 7.3-7.4 |
Funding requests and rejections,
1987-1988; includes
correspondence.
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| 7.5 |
Governmental funding requests and conference
invitations,
1987-1988; includes
correspondence.
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| 7.6-7.8 |
Grants,
1987-1990; includes correspondence with
Research Foundation of State University of New York, Asian Cultural Council,
The Arts Council for Wyoming County, Canadian Consulate, Graduate Student
Association, and contract with City of Buffalo.
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| 7.9 |
Grants: Council on International Studies and
Programs (CISP),
1987; includes correspondence and grant
proposal.
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| 7.10-7.11 |
Grants: New York Council for the Humanities,
1987-1988; includes correspondence,
proposal, and evaluation reports.
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| 7.12 |
Grants: Ruth Mott Fund,
1987; includes correspondence and grant
proposal.
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| 7.13 |
American theatres,
1988-1993; includes flyers and press
materials for select American theatres.
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| 7.14 |
Articles on women,
1986-1988
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| 7.15 |
At the Foot of the Mountain organization,
1983-1986; includes newsletters (3
issues) and information on theatre organizations.
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| 8.1-8.3 |
Conferences,
1983-1989; includes calls for papers,
flyers and programs for other theatre, and playwright conferences.
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| 8.4 |
Underground Railroad Theatre,
1988
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| 8.5 |
Women in Theatre Network,
1986-1989
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| 8.6-8.8 |
Women's theatre groups,
1984-1988; includes five issues of
Dialogues (publication of The Women's Project), League of Professional Theatre
Women 1986 member directory, and clippings.
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| Includes correspondence with playwrights considered for presenting or performing at the First IWPC. Most folders contain press materials for individual playwrights, including photographs, clippings, publication reprints, and resumes. | ||
| Majority of folders originally arranged by Anna Kay France alphabetically by country. Original folder titles retained. | ||
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| 8.9-8.10 |
Africa,
1987-1988; includes Ama Ata Aidoo, Ruth
Bondurant, Grace Chapman, Penina M. Mlama, Mucere Mugo, and Isabel Ubeda
Puccini.
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| 8.11-8.12 |
Argentina,
1987-1988; includes scripts for Griselda
Gambaro's play
Antigona Furiosa and Diana
Raznovich's three plays
Out of Concert,
Paradise, and
Personal Belongings.
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| 9.1-9.7 |
Australia,
1987-1989; includes Linda Aronson, Lissa
Benyon, Jane Bradhurst, Doreen Clark, Patricia Cornelius, Dorothy Hewett, Eva
Johnson, Jill Shearer, and Sandra Shotlander. Also includes press photographs
of Dorothy Hewett, Eva Johnson, and Sandra Shotlander.
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| audio box |
Australia: Audio cassette tape of a reading of Sandra
Shotlander's play,
Angels of Power, April 23,
1989
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| 9.8 |
Belgium,
1987-1988; includes correspondence with
Andrea Murphy (Cultural Officer, Embassy of Belgium).
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| 9.9 |
Brazil,
1987-1988; includes Leilah Assuncão and a
script for her play,
Kukas: The Secret of the Golden
Soul.
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| 9.10-10.6 |
Canada,
1986-1990; includes Canadian Consulate,
Canadian-American Studies Program (University at Buffalo), Le Centre d'Essai
des Auteurs Dramatiques, Janet Feindel, Margaret Hollingsworth, Pol Pelletier,
and Sharon Pollock. Also includes clippings relating to Canadian theatre and
select issues of
CanPlay: The Canadian Playwrights
Magazine. The December 1988 issue contains essays on the First IWPC.
[8 folders] |
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| 10.7 |
Chile: Isidora Aguirre,
1987-1988
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| 10.8 |
China,
1987-1988; includes Bai Fengxi and Shen
Hong-Guang. Also includes press photograph and script for Bai Fengxi's play,
And A Bright Moon Begins to
Shine.
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| 10.10 |
Costa Rica: Guadalupe Pérez Rey,
1987-1988
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| 10.11 |
Czechoslovakia,
1988
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| 10.12 |
Denmark,
1987-1988; includes press photographs of
Marie Giacobbe.
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| 10.13 |
Egypt,
1988
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| 10.14-11.1 |
England,
1986-1989
[2 folders] |
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| 11.2-11.4 |
Finland: Inkeri Kilpinen,
1987-1988; includes press photographs and
script for
'Nuther World.
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| 11.5 |
France,
1987-1988
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| 11.6 |
Germany,
1987-1988
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| 11.7-11.8 |
Greece,
1987-1990; includes scripts for two of
Lili Bita's plays
The Judge and
Sundays in the
Cemetery.
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| 11.9 |
Holland, undated
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| 11.10 |
Hungary,
1988
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| 11.11 |
India,
1988
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| 11.12 |
Ireland,
1988
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| 11.13 |
Israel: Miriam Kainy,
1987-1988
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| 11.14 |
Italy,
1988; includes scripts for two of Dacia
Maraini's plays
Dialogue Between a Prostitute and her
Clients and
Mela.
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| 12.1 |
Jamaica,
1987-1988
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| 12.2-12.3 |
Japan,
1987-1990; includes photographs of Anna
Kay France with others at conference and press photographs of productions by
Rio Kisida.
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| 12.4 |
Korea,
1988
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| 12.5 |
Mexico,
1987-1988
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| 12.6-12.7 |
New Zealand: Renée,
1987-1989; includes press photograph and
script for play
Secrets.
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| 12.8-12.11 |
Nigeria,
1987-1991; includes correspondence
regarding 'Zulu Sofola's year at the University at Buffalo as Visiting Scholar
in Residence. Also includes press photographs of Tess Onwueme.
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| 12.12 |
Norway,
1987-1988; includes press photograph of
Nicole Macé.
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| 13.1 |
Philippines,
1987-1988
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| 13.2-13.3 |
Poland,
1987-1988; includes press photographs of
Urszula Koziol.
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| 13.4 |
Puerto Rico: Myrna Casas,
1988
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| 13.5 |
Russia,
1987-1988
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| 13.6 |
Scotland: Ena Stewart Lamont,
1988; includes press photograph of a
production of
Men Should Weep.
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| 13.7 |
Sierra Leone,
1987-1988
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| 13.8 |
Singapore: Stella Kon,
1987
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| 13.9 |
South Africa,
1987-1988; includes press photograph of
Fatima Dike.
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| 13.10 |
Spain,
1988
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| 13.11 |
Sri Lanka: Somalatha Subasinghe,
1987-1989; includes press photograph and
photographs of a production of
Vitkurthi (The
Distorted).
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| 13.12-13.14 |
Sweden,
1987-1988; includes press photographs of
Suzanne Osten and two of her productions,
Prince Free-of-Sorrows and
The Toad Aquarium.
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| 14.1 |
Switzerland: Gisèle Sallin,
1988
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| 14.2 |
Trinidad,
1987
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| 14.3-15.4 |
United States; includes Sallie Bingham, Eve Ensler,
P.J. Gibson, Shirley Lauro, Sandra Perlman, Megan Terry, and Marylene
Whitehead. Also includes correspondence regarding the overturning of Holly
Hughes National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1990. Also includes press
photographs of Kathleen Betsko, Alice Childress, Gretchen Cryer, Alexis de
Veaux, Rosalyn Drexler, Lorna C. Hill, Endesha Ida Mae Holland, Geralyn Horton,
Holly Hughes, Karen Malpede, Emily Mann, Emily Mann, Zora Moreno, Janet
Neipris, Megan Terry, and Susana Tubert.
[14 folders] |
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| 15.5 |
Venezuela: Mariela Romero,
1988
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| 15.6 |
Buffalo Ambassador Award,
1989
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| 15.7-15.10 |
Clippings,
1988-1989; includes local, national, and
international coverage.
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| 15.11 |
Flyers and posters,
1988
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| 15.12 |
Photograph album given to Anna Kay France by Lee
Hunkins,
1988; includes P.J. Gibson, Kate McNamara,
Susan Croft, Kathleen Betsko, Rosie Logan, Sandra Shotlander, Miriam Kainy,
Tess Onwueme, Alexis Deveaux, Rosalyn Drexler, Fatima Dike, Alice Childress,
Eva Johnson, Kathleen Griffiths, Somalia Subasinghe, Phyllis Jane Rose, Zulu
Sofola, and Patricia Cornelius.
[unbound album] |
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| 15.13 |
Photographs,
1988; includes snapshots of Kandace
Lambart, Joy Sume, Draine Camerta Charlesworh, Zulu Sofola, and Kathleen
Betsko. Also includes professional photographs of a session with Anna Kay
France, Emily Mann, Rosalyn Drexler and other unidentified persons.
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| 15.14 |
Program,
1988
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Radio interviews,
1988; includes interviews with Anna Kay
France, Renée, Urszula Koziol, Alice Childress, Kathleen Betsko, Tess Onwueme,
and Leilah Assuncão on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition." Also includes
Sheng Hong-Guang, 'Zulu Sofola, and Eva Johnson on National Public Radio's
"Performance Today," and Megan Terry on the University of Missouri-Kansas
City's "New Letters on the Air."
[8 audio cassettes] |
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| 16.1 |
Theatre Fest,
1988; includes playbills for individual
productions.
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Includes materials relating to the creation and publication of Anna Kay France and P.J. Corso's book, International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation--Proceedings of the First International Women Playwrights Conference, October 18-23, 1988 (1993). See Series I, Subseries C, Section 2 for edited conference session transcripts used by France and Corso in preparing the book. |
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| 16.2-16.8 |
Biographies,
1991-1992; includes correspondence with
conference speakers and playwrights, curriculum vita, checklist, and biography
drafts.
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| 16.9-16.11 |
Correspondence,
1990-1994; includes publishing presses,
and conference speakers and playwrights.
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| 17.1-17.3 |
Permissions for Release forms,
1992-1993; includes
correspondence.
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| 17.4 |
Photographs,
1991-1992; includes Sabina Berman, P. J.
Gibson, and Spiderwoman.
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| 17.5-17.11 |
Playwright revisions,
1992; includes correspondence regarding
permissions to publish edited transcripts and checklist of received
revisions.
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| 17.12 |
Scarecrow Press, Inc. ,
1993-1996; includes correspondence,
media list, book format guidelines, and book order form.
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| 18.1 |
Statistics on women playwrights,
1987-1992; includes
correspondence.
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| 18.2 |
Table of contents, undated; includes
footnotes.
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Most session transcripts were edited by Anna Kay France and others for the publication of International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation--Proceedings of the First International Women Playwrights Conference, October 18-23, 1988 (1993). See Series I, Subseries C, Section 3 for audio tapes of unedited versions. |
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Transcripts for the following sessions are not included: Concurrent Workshops: Ib. Director and Playwright, Concurrent Panels and Workshop: I. Writer's Workshop-- Creating Powerful Drama: The Dichotomy of Remembering, and Readings and scenes from works by international women playwrights. Presented papers are included for some sessions. |
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Organized in order of conference schedule. |
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| 18.3-18.4 |
Tape and transcript sales,
1989-1991; includes correspondence,
session introductory remarks, tape index, and order form.
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| 18.5 |
Session I: Welcoming Ceremonies, 18 October
1988
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| 18.6 |
Session I: Concurrent Workshops: I. Women
Playwrights: Multiple Roles to Survive in the World, October 18,
1988
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| 18.7-18.8 |
Session I: Concurrent Workshops: II. Drawing from
History: Using the Past to Interpret the Present and Influence the Future,
October 18,
1988
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| 18.9 |
Session I: Staged readings from three plays by Zulu
Sofola (Nigeria)
Wedlock of the Gods,
The Lost Dreams, and
The Sweet Trap, October 18,
1988
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| 18.10 |
Session I: Concurrent Workshops: I. Old Forms/New
Forms: What Works Today?, October 19,
1988
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| 18.11 |
Session I: Concurrent Workshops: II. Lesbian Plays
and Playwrights, October 19,
1988; includes
correspondence.
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| 18.12-18.13 |
Session I: Concurrent Workshops: III. Myth, Legend
and Ritual in Plays by Women, October 19,
1988
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| 19.1-19.2 |
Session I: Plenary Session: Censorship and
Self-Censorship, October 19,
1988
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| 19.3 |
Session I: Plenary Session: Pioneer and First
Generation Women Dramatists, October 19,
1988
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| 19.4 |
Session II: Concurrent Workshops: Ia. Old Forms/New
Forms: What Works Today, October 20,
1988
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| 19.5 |
Session II: Concurrent Workshops: IIa. Developing
Plays by Women, October 20,
1988
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| 19.6 |
Session II: Concurrent Workshops: IIb. Directing and
Producing Plays by Women, October 20,
1988
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| 19.7-19.8 |
Session II: Concurrent Workshops: III. Creating
Theatre for Children and Youth, October 20,
1988
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| 19.9 |
Session II: Concurrent Panels and Workshops: II.
Experimental Drama by Women, October 20,
1988; includes
correspondence.
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| 19.10 |
Session II: Concurrent Panels and Workshops: III.
What's So Funny: The Use of Comedy, Humor, Satire, October 20,
1988
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| 19.11 |
Session II: Open Forum, October 20,
1988
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| 19.12-19.14 |
Session II: Plenary Panel: Issues of Race and Class,
October 21,
1988
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| 20.1 |
Session II: Concurrent Panels: I. Eroticism, Sexual
Identity and Politics, October 21,
1988
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| 20.2 |
Session II: Concurrent Panels: I. Changing Domestic
and Family Roles, October 21,
1988
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| 20.3 |
Session II: Plenary Panel: Women Playwrights as
Social and Political Critics, October 22,
1988
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| 20.4 |
Session II: Panel: The Playwright Working with a
Theatre Company, October 22,
1988
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| 20.5 |
Session II: Plenary Panel: The Woman Playwright:
Identity and Transformation, October 22,
1988; includes clipping.
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| 20.6 |
Session II: Discussion: Where To Go From Here,
October 22,
1988
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| 20.7 |
Session II: Humanities Sessions: The Labyrinth of
Polish Life: Urszula Koziol's Drama, October 15,
1988
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| 20.8 |
Session II: Humanities Sessions: The Black Women
Playwright: African Heritage/ Contemporary Challenges, October 19,
1988
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| 20.9 |
Session II: Humanities Sessions: Women's Voices in
Hispanic Theatre: Rebellion, Assertion and Greatness, October 20,
1988; includes presented papers. Does
not include transcripts.
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| 20.10 |
Scholarly papers,
1988; includes "Images of Women in
Modern Chinese Historical Plays" by Yan, Hai-ping, "Women's Use of Myth:
Shange's Attempt to Demythologize the Realities of America in "for Colored
Girls"" by Yasuko Ikeuchi, "Women Writing on "Big" and "Little" Subjects" by
Dane Sue McDermott, and "The Edge of Two Cultures" by Lili Bata.
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Most panels, workshops, performances, and talks are represented. |
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Organized in order of conference schedule. |
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| audio box |
Audio cassette tapes,
1988; contains original recordings of
Sessions I-II. Also includes 'Zulu Sofola readings and plays.
[57 audio cassettes] |
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| 26-27 |
VHS tapes,
1988; contains video recordings of
Sessions I and II (The following sessions are missing: Session I: Welcoming
Ceremonies, Session I: Staged readings from three plays by Zulu Sofola
(Nigeria)
Wedlock of the Gods,
The Lost Dreams, and
The Sweet Trap, and Session
II: Open Forum.).
[21 video cassettes] |
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II. International Center for Women Playwrights
1987-2006 |
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Historical Note: Anna Kay France helped establish the center to continue to support and advance the work of women playwrights by encouraging the international production and distribution of their work. |
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Arranged into four subseries: Administration, Conferences, Newsletters, and Events. Anna Kay France's subject file organization was maintained. |
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 20.11 |
About the International Center for Women Playwrights,
undated
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| 20.2 |
Clippings,
1990-1997
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| 20.3-21.2 |
Committee meeting minutes and agendas,
1989-1996; includes board, steering
committee, and fundraising committee minutes and agendas (1990). Also includes
handwritten notes.
[4 folders] |
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| 21.3-21.4 |
Correspondence,
1989-1999; includes Tess Onwueme, Patricia
Cornelius, Ros Horin, Maria Lambadaridou-Pothou, and theatre companies. Also
includes clippings, flyers, and photograph of Anna Kay France and Ezzat
Gousheguir.
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| 21.5 |
Financial,
1989-1995; includes The Research
Foundation of State University of New York, and University at Buffalo. Also
includes treasurers reports for 1992 and 1993 and funding reports.
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| 21.6 |
First IWPC conference directory,
1990
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| 21.7 |
Goals and purpose statement,
1990-1997; includes revisions, drafts, and
returned approval of statement ballots.
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| 21.8 |
Grants,
1990-1991; includes Rockefeller Foundation
and Canadian Consulate.
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| 21.9-22.1 |
International Advisory Committee (IAC),
1991-2000; includes correspondence, IAC
member list, conference planning guidelines, advisory committee meeting
minutes, and completed questionnaires for committee members. Also includes
correspondence relating to the organization of the IAC, and to the 2nd and 3rd
conferences.
[4 folders] |
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| 22.2 |
Interns and volunteers,
1990-1996; includes hour logs, schedules,
flyer, and correspondence.
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| 22.3 |
Logo, undated; includes photograph.
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| 22.4-22.6 |
Members,
1988-1998; includes correspondence, forms,
informational packet materials, and address lists.
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| 22.7-22.8 |
Organizational files,
1989-1994; includes correspondence,
by-laws drafts, handwritten notes, and organization meeting agendas and
minutes.
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| 22.9-22.12 |
Playwrights: international,
1989-1999; includes correspondence,
emails, drafts of the constitution, steering committee and advisory committee
lists. Also includes clippings on Samira Al-Mana.
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| 23.1 |
Playwrights: United States,
1988-1993; includes correspondence,
curriculum vita, flyers, and clippings.
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| 23.2 |
Questionnaires, undated
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| 23.3 |
Theatre companies: Buffalo, New York,
1992-1994; includes correspondence, and
flyers.
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| 23.4 |
Theatre companies: United States,
1990-1995; includes correspondence,
flyers, and clippings.
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 23.5 |
Correspondence,
1990-1991
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| 23.6 |
Clippings,
1990-1991
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| 23.7-23.8 |
Mailing lists, undated; includes
registration.
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| 23.9 |
Minutes and agendas,
1990; includes press releases, flyers,
and paper presented at conference by Nora Glickman.
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| 23.10 |
Photographs,
1990-1991; includes Margaret
Hollingsworth and Anna Kay France.
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| 23.11-23.12 |
Program and brochures,
1991; includes drafts, poster, and paper
presented by Marie Lourdes Jacobs.
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 23.13 |
Conference proposals,
1991; includes proposals from Australia
and England, correspondence, and voting ballots.
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| 24.1-24.2 |
Correspondence,
1991-1997; includes Phyllis Jane Rose
(Conference Conveyor), United States members of the International Advisory
Committee meeting minutes (1993), and clippings.
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| 24.3 |
Final conference report,
1994
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| 24.4 |
Programs and flyers,
1994; includes registration brochures,
and conference program.
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| audio box |
Recorded business meeting of 2nd IWPC business
meeting held in Toronto, Canada on May 21,
1991
[1 audio cassette] |
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 24.5-24.6 |
4th IWPC proceedings, 1994-1997; includes
correspondence, conference proposal, nominations, conference announcements,
flyers, programs, and plenary speech given by Kate McNamarra.
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 24.7 |
5th IWPC proceedings,
1997-2000; includes correspondence,
registration packet, draft of International Women Playwrights charter, contact
list, and three issues of Women Playwrights International newsletter,
1998-1999.
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 24.8 |
6th IWPC proceedings: conference program,
2003; includes poster.
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 25.1 |
7th IWPC proceedings: conference program,
2006
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 25.2 |
International Women Playwrights Center
Newsletter,
1990-1992 (2 issues); includes draft of
Fall 1990 newsletter.
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| 25.3 |
Boomerang newsletter, 1990-1991
(2 issues)
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| 25.4 |
Seasons: Newsletter of the International Center for
Women Playwrights,
1993-1996 (6 issues)
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 25.5 |
New Plays Fest,
1995; includes press packet, program,
flyer, and clippings.
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| 25.6 |
North-South Festival of New Plays,
1994; includes correspondence, press
release, flyer, program, clippings, and photographs.
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| 25.7-25.8 |
Staged readings and plays,
1990-1994; includes correspondence, press
releases, flyers, programs, poster, and clippings. Also includes scripts of
Gertrude Miller's play
That's the Way It Is, Part IV of
Myrna Casas' play,
Absurdities in Loneliness, and
press photographs of Monique Mojica and Kate Cody.
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| 25.9 |
Tradition, Transition, Revolution: Voices of Women in
the Middle East: A Public Dialogue and Discussion with Two Middle Eastern
Playwrights,
1990; includes program, playwright
itinerary, and clippings
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
Thirty-six monographs of plays, including collections of plays, and poetry written by participants in the International Women Playwrights Conferences or International Center for Women Playwrights were removed for possible inclusion in Lockwood Memorial Library.
Twenty-seven unpublished typewritten scripts written by playwrights not involved in the conferences were removed. See archivist for further information.
