page_title: Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective
section_title: Disbanding
hierarchical_section_title: Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective / Disbanding
caption_attribution_description: English: Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective at videotaped interview, January 2011. from left to right, Marjorie Melnick, Christina Maile, Gwen Gunn, Dolores Walker, Nancy Rhodes and Helen Duberstein. 2011 Photo by Lauren Maile .
context_page_description: The Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective was a group of professional women playwrights in New York active from 1971 to 1975. They wrote and produced feminist plays and were one of the first feminist theatre groups in the United States to do so. The members' individual works had been produced at the Public Theater, La Mama, Joe Chaikin’s Open Theater, Caffe Cino, Circle Repertory Company, Mark Taper Forum, Lincoln Center, and New York Theater Ensemble.
context_section_description: After five years of theatre productions, the Westbeth Playwrights Collective disbanded, each member to pursue individual careers - some as playwrights, poets, television and nonfiction writers. Others, perhaps encouraged by the avenues of opportunity they had striven to open, became bishops, attorneys, landscape architects, publishers, printmakers, and videographers.
  Recently a group of Collective playwrights and directors met in an hour-long videotaped interview to recall the above events.
caption: Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective at videtoped interview in 2011. From left to right, Marjorie Melnick, Christina Maile, Gwen Gunn, Dolores Walker, Nancy Rhodes, and Helen Duberstein. Photo by Lauren Maile.
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