MS 136University Archives, The State University of New York at Buffalo
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| Title: | International Women Playwrights Conference Records, 1984-2006 (bulk 1987-1989) |
| Collection Number: | MS 136 |
| Creator: | France, Anna Kay. |
| Extent: | 24 manuscript boxes, 1 half box (10.22 linear feet) |
| Language of Material: | Collection material in English |
| Repository: | State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives |
| Abstract: | Records held by former University at Buffalo professor, Anna Kay France, as related to her involvement in the 1st International Women Playwrights Conference (IWPC) held at the University at Buffalo, October 14-23, 1988. Includes correspondence with national and international playwrights, session transcripts, and papers from the International Center for Women Playwrights. |
[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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International Women Playwrights Conference Records, 1984-2006 (bulk 1987-1989) are open for research.
Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
The University Archives received the collection from Anna Kay France in October 2005. Dr. France donated additional materials in August 2007.
Collection processed by: Amanda Kuhnel, June 2008
Finding aid encoded by: Jessica Tanny, June 2008
International Women Playwrights
Conferences
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: 1st International Women Playwrights Conference, and International Center for Women Playwrights.
Arrangement: Series I is arranged into three subseries: Administration, Playwrights, and Conference.
| Subseries A. Administration Scope and Content Note: 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.4 | Benefits and events, 1988; includes correspondence, press releases, flyers, programs, and clippings. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.5 | Conference participant questionnaires, undated [See also questionnaires filed in Subseries B: Playwrights] | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.6 | Conference proposal, 1986; includes evaluation of pre-proposal. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.7-1.8 | Conference reports, 1988-1989; includes post-conference correspondence, overview, final reports, expense summary, and planning guidelines. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.9-1.10 | Contributions, 1987-1988; includes lists of contributors, advertising, translators, and funding sources and brochure. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.11 | Fact sheets, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.12 | Filming, 1988; includes contract with AVID Production, Inc., and release form. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.13 | International Arts Entreprises, Inc. (IAE): Kathleen Bannon, Executive Director, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2.1-2.2 | International playwrights,
1987-1988; includes report and
correspondence on funding and travel arrangements. Scope and Content Note: 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2.4 | Logo design, 1988; includes variations of design and correspondence. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2.5 | Organization plans, 1988; includes timelines. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2.12-3.1 | Planning Committee meetings,
1987-1989; includes agendas, minutes, and
correspondence. [x folders] |
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| audio box | 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3.9 | Registration brochure, 1988; includes timeline for production and draft. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3.10 | Registration cancelations, 1988; includes correspondence. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3.11 | Registrants, 1988; includes walk-in registrants. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3.12 | Rhythm of Life (conference production), 1988; includes brochure. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3.13 | Schedules, 1986-1988; includes timelines and program schedule drafts. | ||||||||||||||||||
| audio box | 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 Scope and Content Note: 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. [x folders] |
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| Section 1:
Correspondence Scope and Content Note: 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4.9-5.3 | Critics and scholars,
1987-1988 [x folders] |
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| 5.4-5.5 | Dramatists Guild, 1987-1992; includes select issues of The Dramatists Guild Newsletter. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5.6 | Erie County, 1987-1988; includes Erie County Hall, Erie County Legislature, and First International Women Playwrights Conference Information Packet. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5.7-5.10 | Planning Committee, 1986-1989; includes clippings, and curriculum vita of select planning committee members. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5.11 | Playwright organizations, 1987-1988; includes publications by the New Dramatists. | ||||||||||||||||||
| ??? | Possible presenters, 1987-1991; includes curriculum vita, proposals, and list of invited scholars. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5.12-5.13 | Printers and publishers, 1987-1989 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6.6-6.7 | Theatre professionals, 1988-1989; includes Vinnie Burrows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6.10-6.13 | Volunteers, 1987-1988; includes lists of volunteers, meeting agendas, mailing schedules, and contact list for Buffalo women's groups. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6.14 | General correspondence, 1987-1988; includes post-conference appreciation letters, and conference letterhead. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 2: Financial | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7.1 | Budget summaries, 1987-1989 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7.2 | City of Buffalo funding,
1988 Scope and Content Note: File originally maintained by Nancy C. Doherty. |
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| 7.3-7.4 | Funding requests and rejections, 1987-1988; includes correspondence. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7.5 | Governmental funding requests and conference invitations, 1987-1988; includes correspondence. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7.9 | Grants: Council on International Studies and Programs (CISP), 1987; includes correspondence and grant proposal. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7.10-7.11 | Grants: New York Council for the Humanities, 1987-1988; includes correspondence, proposal, and evaluation reports. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7.12 | Grants: Ruth Mott Fund, 1987; includes correspondence and grant proposal. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 3: Research for First IWPC | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7.13 | American theatres, 1988-1993; includes flyers and press materials for select American theatres. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7.14 | Articles on women, 1986-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7.15 | At the Foot of the Mountain organization, 1983-1986; includes newsletters (3 issues) and information on theatre organizations. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8.1-8.3 | Conferences, 1983-1989; includes calls for papers, flyers and programs for other theatre, and playwright conferences. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8.4 | Underground Railroad Theatre, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8.5 | Women in Theatre Network, 1986-1989 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subseries B. Playwrights Scope and Content Note: 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. Arrangement: 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| audio box | Australia: Audio cassette tape of a reading of Sandra Shotlander's play, Angels of Power, April 23, 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9.8 | Belgium, 1987-1988; includes correspondence with Andrea Murphy (Cultural Officer, Embassy of Belgium). | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9.9 | Brazil, 1987-1988; includes Leilah Assuncão and a script for her play, Kukas: The Secret of the Golden Soul. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 10.10 | Costa Rica: Guadalupe Pérez Rey, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 10.11 | Czechoslovakia, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 10.12 | Denmark, 1987-1988; includes press photographs of Marie Giacobbe. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 10.13 | Egypt, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.5 | France, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.6 | Germany, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.7-11.8 | Greece, 1987-1990; includes scripts for two of Lili Bita's plays The Judge and Sundays in the Cemetery. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.9 | Holland, undated | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.10 | Hungary, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.11 | India, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.12 | Ireland, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.13 | Israel: Miriam Kainy, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11.14 | Italy, 1988; includes scripts for two of Dacia Maraini's plays Dialogue Between a Prostitute and her Clients and Mela. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 12.1 | Jamaica, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 12.4 | Korea, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 12.5 | Mexico, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 12.6-12.7 | New Zealand: Renée, 1987-1989; includes press photograph and script for play Secrets. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 12.12 | Norway, 1987-1988; includes press photograph of Nicole Macé. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.1 | Philippines, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.2-13.3 | Poland, 1987-1988; includes press photographs of Urszula Koziol. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.4 | Puerto Rico: Myrna Casas, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.5 | Russia, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.6 | Scotland: Ena Stewart Lamont, 1988; includes press photograph of a production of Men Should Weep. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.7 | Sierra Leone, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.8 | Singapore: Stella Kon, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.9 | South Africa, 1987-1988; includes press photograph of Fatima Dike. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.10 | Spain, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 13.11 | Sri Lanka: Somalatha Subasinghe, 1987-1989; includes press photograph and photographs of a production of Vitkurthi (The Distorted). | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 14.1 | Switzerland: Gisèle Sallin, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 14.2 | Trinidad, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subseries C. Conference | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15.6 | Buffalo Ambassador Award, 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 15.7-15.10 | Clippings, 1988-1989; includes local, national, and international coverage. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 15.11 | Flyers and posters, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 15.14 | Program, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| audio box | 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 1. First IWPC
Book Scope and Content Note: 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 16.9-16.11 | Correspondence, 1990-1994; includes publishing presses, and conference speakers and playwrights. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 17.1-17.3 | Permissions for Release forms, 1992-1993; includes correspondence. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 17.4 | Photographs, 1991-1992; includes Sabina Berman, P. J. Gibson, and Spiderwoman. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 17.5-17.11 | Playwright revisions, 1992; includes correspondence regarding permissions to publish edited transcripts and checklist of received revisions. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 17.12 | Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993-1996; includes correspondence, media list, book format guidelines, and book order form. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18.1 | Statistics on women playwrights, 1987-1992; includes correspondence. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18.2 | Table of contents, undated; includes footnotes. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 2. Conference
Sessions Scope and Content Note: 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. 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. Arrangement: 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18.5 | Session I: Welcoming Ceremonies, 18 October 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18.6 | Session I: Concurrent Workshops: I. Women Playwrights: Multiple Roles to Survive in the World, October 18, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18.10 | Session I: Concurrent Workshops: I. Old Forms/New Forms: What Works Today?, October 19, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18.11 | Session I: Concurrent Workshops: II. Lesbian Plays and Playwrights, October 19, 1988; includes correspondence. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18.12-18.13 | Session I: Concurrent Workshops: III. Myth, Legend and Ritual in Plays by Women, October 19, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.1-19.2 | Session I: Plenary Session: Censorship and Self-Censorship, October 19, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.3 | Session I: Plenary Session: Pioneer and First Generation Women Dramatists, October 19, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.4 | Session II: Concurrent Workshops: Ia. Old Forms/New Forms: What Works Today, October 20, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.5 | Session II: Concurrent Workshops: IIa. Developing Plays by Women, October 20, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.6 | Session II: Concurrent Workshops: IIb. Directing and Producing Plays by Women, October 20, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.7-19.8 | Session II: Concurrent Workshops: III. Creating Theatre for Children and Youth, October 20, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.9 | Session II: Concurrent Panels and Workshops: II. Experimental Drama by Women, October 20, 1988; includes correspondence. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.10 | Session II: Concurrent Panels and Workshops: III. What's So Funny: The Use of Comedy, Humor, Satire, October 20, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.11 | Session II: Open Forum, October 20, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 19.12-19.14 | Session II: Plenary Panel: Issues of Race and Class, October 21, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.1 | Session II: Concurrent Panels: I. Eroticism, Sexual Identity and Politics, October 21, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.2 | Session II: Concurrent Panels: I. Changing Domestic and Family Roles, October 21, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.3 | Session II: Plenary Panel: Women Playwrights as Social and Political Critics, October 22, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.4 | Session II: Panel: The Playwright Working with a Theatre Company, October 22, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.5 | Session II: Plenary Panel: The Woman Playwright: Identity and Transformation, October 22, 1988; includes clipping. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.6 | Session II: Discussion: Where To Go From Here, October 22, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.7 | Session II: Humanities Sessions: The Labyrinth of Polish Life: Urszula Koziol's Drama, October 15, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.8 | Session II: Humanities Sessions: The Black Women Playwright: African Heritage/ Contemporary Challenges, October 19, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 3. Session Audio and
Video Tapes Scope and Content Note: Most panels, workshops, performances, and talks are represented. Arrangement: 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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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.
Arrangement: Arranged into four subseries: Administration, Conferences, Newsletters, and Events. Anna Kay France's subject file organization was maintained.
| Subseries A. Administration | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20.11 | About the International Center for Women Playwrights, undated | ||||||||||||||||||
| 20.2 | Clippings, 1990-1997 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 21.6 | First IWPC conference directory, 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 21.7 | Goals and purpose statement, 1990-1997; includes revisions, drafts, and returned approval of statement ballots. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 21.8 | Grants, 1990-1991; includes Rockefeller Foundation and Canadian Consulate. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 22.3 | Logo, undated; includes photograph. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 22.4-22.6 | Members, 1988-1998; includes correspondence, forms, informational packet materials, and address lists. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 22.7-22.8 | Organizational files, 1989-1994; includes correspondence, by-laws drafts, handwritten notes, and organization meeting agendas and minutes. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.1 | Playwrights: United States, 1988-1993; includes correspondence, curriculum vita, flyers, and clippings. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.2 | Questionnaires, undated | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.3 | Theatre companies: Buffalo, New York, 1992-1994; includes correspondence, and flyers. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.4 | Theatre companies: United States, 1990-1995; includes correspondence, flyers, and clippings. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subseries B. Conferences | |||||||||||||||||||
| Section 1. 2nd International
Women Playwrights Conference Toronto, Canada, 17-20 May 1991 |
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| 23.5 | Correspondence, 1990-1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.6 | Clippings, 1990-1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.7-23.8 | Mailing lists, undated; includes registration. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.9 | Minutes and agendas, 1990; includes press releases, flyers, and paper presented at conference by Nora Glickman. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.10 | Photographs, 1990-1991; includes Margaret Hollingsworth and Anna Kay France. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23.11-23.12 | Program and brochures, 1991; includes drafts, poster, and paper presented by Marie Lourdes Jacobs. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 2. 3rd International
Women Playwrights Conference Adelaide, Australia, 3-10 July 1994 |
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| 23.13 | Conference proposals, 1991; includes proposals from Australia and England, correspondence, and voting ballots. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 24.3 | Final conference report, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 24.4 | Programs and flyers, 1994; includes registration brochures, and conference program. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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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| Section 3. 4th International
Women Playwrights Conference Galway, Ireland, 22-29 June 1997 |
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| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 4. 5th International
Women Playwrights Conference: Eros Theatrou Athens/Delphi, Greece, October 2000 |
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| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 5. 6th International
Women Playwright Conference Manila, Philippines, 14-20 November 2003 |
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| 24.8 | 6th IWPC proceedings: conference program, 2003; includes poster. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Section 6. 7th International
Women Playwright Conference Jakarta, Indonesia, November 2006 |
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| 25.1 | 7th IWPC proceedings: conference program, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subseries C. Newsletters | |||||||||||||||||||
| 25.2 | International Women Playwrights Center Newsletter, 1990-1992 (2 issues); includes draft of Fall 1990 newsletter. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 25.3 | Boomerang newsletter, 1990-1991 (2 issues) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 25.4 | Seasons: Newsletter of the International Center for Women Playwrights, 1993-1996 (6 issues) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subseries D. Satellite Events | |||||||||||||||||||
| 25.5 | New Plays Fest, 1995; includes press packet, program, flyer, and clippings. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 25.6 | North-South Festival of New Plays, 1994; includes correspondence, press release, flyer, program, clippings, and photographs. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
France, Anna Kay -- International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation--Proceedings of the First International Women Playwrights Conference
Corso, P.J. (Paula Jo), 1957- -- International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation--Proceedings of the First International Women Playwrights Conference
International Advisory Committee for the International Women Playwrights Conference
International Center for Women Playwrights
Women Playwrights International
State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives.
International Center for Women Playwrights -- Congresses
State University of New York at Buffalo -- Congresses
Playwriting -- Congresses
Women dramatists -- Congresses
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
State University of New York at Buffalo--Archival resources.
Playwrights
Theatre arts
Theatre (discipline)
Drama
Dramatic arts
Conferences
Congresses
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.
