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Scribbling Women
Update
News of the Project
by Executive Producer Valerie
Henderson
The first stage of this
web site is now complete. Our audience is increasing
rapidly and over a quarter of a million requests were
logged on the site in March 2000. As promised in the
last newsletter, two more of our plays are available
on Windows Media: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman dramatized by Laura
Harrington and "A Wagner Matinee" by Willa Cather
dramatized by Sara Baker. "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan
Glaspell dramatized for the Scribbling Women
series by Donna
DiNovelli is also still available on Windows Media on
this site.
We have begun working
on the second Scribbling Women series. Sarah
Orne Jewett's short story "The Flight of Betsey Lane"
dramatized by Eliza Anderson has been produced. This
play was directed by David
Zoffoli, director of five other Scribbling Women
plays, and was funded by Massachusetts Foundation for
the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Connecticut Humanities Council has awarded us funding
to produce an excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle
Tom's Cabin. This excerpt (Cassy's Story)
will be dramatized by Eliza
Anderson and the play will be directed by BBC producer
Martin
Jenkins. We are fortunate to have Joan D. Hedrick
as our humanities advisor for Cassy's Story.
Professor Hedrick was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her
biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published
by the Oxford University Press in 1994. Connecticut
Humanities Council has funded four Scribbling Women
productions and was also a member of the group of humanities
councils who funded the publication of our Multi-Media
Education Kit. Our special thanks goes to Connecticut
Humanities Council for their support and the confidence
they have always shown in our project.
Another short story
in the new series is well on the way to production.
South Carolina Humanities Council has awarded us funding
to produce "The Merry-Go-Round" by Julia Peterkin. .
We are very pleased to have Susan Millar Williams as
our lead humanities advisor for this project. Professor
Millar Williams' biography of Julia Peterkin, A Devil
and A Good Woman Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin
was published by the University of Georgia Press in
1997.
All of the plays in the new series will eventually
be broadcast on National Public Radio and included in
the curricula on this site.
We look forward to receiving
your comments and queries, ideas and suggestions.
Valerie Henderson is executive producer of the
Scribbling Women series and executive director
of the Public Media Foundation.
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