Minnesota Women’s Press asked me to write a squib for their “Acting Up” issue, about “the role of the arts in creating social change.” This seemed like a good occasion to revisit Sylvia Pankhurst. What’s the use of art? – Minnesota Women’s Press Anne Bertram is a playwright and executive director of Theatre Unbound, “The...
Author: Anne
The Loud Words
In “For Worse,” beleaguered substitute teacher Michelle, called in the middle of the day to sub for a sub in a seventh-grade English class, gets out some of her frustration by asking the students to shout their vocabulary words as loud as they can. I got this idea from my ninth-grade English teacher, the late...
How I spend my time (or, wrapping up the Project Diary)
For the first six months of 2016, I kept a daily log of the work I did on writing projects, because I thought it would spur me to be more diligent, in order to avoid having to log “Nothin'” for the day; I enjoy getting a peek into other people’s working habits, so why not...
you know what makes kindergarten possible? recess.
For Worse: revised Michelle’s monologue. Not as gnarly as I feared. The subject line is one of hers.
getting the word out (part 2)
For Worse: putting cast bios on the Fringe website. Mother Antonia: Found a couple of images on the St. Kate’s Reunion Flickr album:
getting the word out (part 1)
For Worse: Included in Theatre Unbound’s season press release.
forward and back
For Worse: Included in the announcement at TU’s Season Announcement Party. Murderess: At the party, Laura performed part of the Jane Toppan monologue. Interesting to see it revisited after so long.
nothin’
Nothin’.
paperwork (but isn’t it all paperwork?)
For Worse: W-9 filled out, liability waivers all collected, everything sent off to Fringe.
nothin’
Nothin’.