This full length history play, inspired by the eponymous book by Erin H. Turner (see sidebar), was a collaboration with six other authors. The play presents seven women who had significant impact in shaping California history. Their stories are interwoven, told chronologically from the 1840s through 1960s. The women include: Dorothea Lange (photojournalist) Jessie Fremont (politician's wife, made original expedition possible) Mary Austin (pre-Feminist author, activist) Mary Ellen Pleasant (civil rights figure) Tye Leung Schulze (immigration interpretor, first Chinese pre-suffrage voter) Julia Morgan (most prolific architect ever) Toby Winema Riddle (Indian interpretor) Each author drafted the scenes for the seven women in the show. I was brought in a month before rehearsals to pull them together, chronoligically interweave them, smooth the transitions, bring a single voice, and create a prologue and epilogue. More rewriting ensued as well.

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