Sue Perlgut

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Sue Perlgut is a second-wave feminist [1] who was a central figure in It's All Right To Be Woman Theatre, [2] [3] a women's theater collective founded in 1970 [4] in New York City that operated without a director. [5]

Perlgut studied educational theatre and worked as a director, performer, playwright, puppet maker, teacher, arts administrator, and producer. [6] Perlgut taught theater at Richmond College and in New York City. [7] [8] She was one of the first people to suggest that women confess their abortions publicly, [1] which led to the #ShoutYourAbortion movement.

Owner: Close to Home Productions, CloseToHomeProductions.com

Director: Women's Wisdom Project, facebook.com/WomensWisdomProject

Director: It's All Right To Be Woman Theatre, ItsAllRightToBeWomanTheatre.com

Director: Women Artists Have Their Say, WomenArtistsHaveTheirSay

Director: Connie Cook, A Documentary, ConnieCookFilm.com


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References

  1. 1 2 Baumgardner, Jennifer (2008). Abortion & Life. Akashic.
  2. Martin, Carol, ed. (1996). A Sourcebook of Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage. Routledge.
  3. Rajan, V.G. Julie (2011). Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras. Routledge. p. 19. ISBN   9781351916103.
  4. Sisley, Emily L. "Notes on Lesbian Theatre." The Drama Review: TDR, vol. 25, no. 1, 1981, pp. 47–56. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1145343.
  5. Rea, Charlotte. “Women for Women.” The Drama Review: TDR, vol. 18, no. 4, 1974, pp. 78. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1144883.
  6. Stories from the brainreels podcast transcript. Accessed online December 2, 2018: http://whoamitostopit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sue-Perlgut-Interview-Transcript.pdf
  7. Perlgut, Sue. "What's a Crankie," Ms. Magazine. Vol 1 (1973), pg. 27.
  8. Cancer Resource Center. A Day of Renewal. Workshop program. Retrieved December 2, 2018 http://www.crcfl.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Complete-Retreat-Registration-2018-jd.pdf