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Martha Boesing
Thursday, December 22, 2011, 10:30 am Pacific, 11 am Mountain, Noon Central, 1 pm EST, 2 pm Atlantic, 7 pm Zurich, 8 pm Istanbul
Working Septuagenarian, Honoring the Homeless
Bio
Martha Boesing has written over 40 produced plays, led workshops, and directed plays for theaters throughout the country. She was the Founder and Artistic Director At the Foot of the Mountain theater in Minneapolis (the longest running professional women's theater in the country) from 1974-84. She has won several national awards including an NEA, a Bush fellowship, and the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American playwrights. In the sixties, she was a company member of Minneapolis’ Firehouse Theater (an iconoclastic, experimental theater), and her work remains true to the ideological concerns of that time. She now lives in Oakland with her partner Sandy Boucher, close to her four grandchildren, and creates theater pieces for The Faithful Fools, a street ministry in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.
Contact
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Phone: 510-530-6188
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Email: martha [at] mboesing [dot] com
- http://www.marthaboesing.com/
Introduction
Martha Boesing has written over 40 produced plays, led workshops, and directed plays for theaters throughout the country. She was the Founder and Artistic Director At the Foot of the Mountain theater in Minneapolis (the longest running professional women's theater in the country) from 1974-84. She has won several national awards including an NEA, a Bush fellowship, and the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American playwrights. In the sixties, she was a company member of Minneapolis’ Firehouse Theater (an iconoclastic, experimental theater), and her work remains true to the ideological concerns of that time. She now creates theater pieces for The Faithful Fools, a street ministry in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Welcome Martha!
Interview Questions
1. What is the Faithful Fools?
2. How, when and why did you get involved with the Faithful Fools?
3. How did you come to write the Song of the Magpie, which you performed at the Poetics of Aging Conference?
4. What is the Song of the Magpie about?
5. Do you identify at all with the heroine of the Song of the Magpie?
6. How does your age(you are in your seventh decade) give meaning to your work?
Upcoming December Tele-Interviews
- 12/29/11 Faith Winthrop, Working Octogenarian, "Havin' Myself a Time"
- 12/29/11 Helen Harkness, Focus on Functional Age for your Future Direction. Target Chronological Calendars and Clocks!
Upcoming January, 2012 Tele-Interviews
- 1/2/12 Rich Feller, Big Picture Sextagenarian
- 1/12/12 Richard Knowdell, Septagenarian and Lifelong Worker
- 1/12/12 Charles Derber, Sextagenarian
- 1/19/12 Barry Barkan, Building Community
- 1/19/12 Virginia Byrd
- 1/26/12 Julien Gardner