Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Playwright, screenwriter, producer, and founder/CEO of Providence Productions, Elizabeth Hemmerdinger began her career in theater and film as a playwright, winning the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Goldberg Prize for "We Can Do It!", which she is now adapting as a musical. Her play "Squall" was the winner of the U.S. West Theatre Festival. That and two other plays, "Fine Family" and "The National Treasure," have been produced from the Williamstown Theater Festival to Europe. Her growing cycle of 10-minute Rage Plays are produced around the country. Hemmerdinger is the Executive Producer of The Real Rosie the Riveter Project, a growing collection of filmed oral histories of the women who took the place of men on the production line during World War II. The collection is housed at NYU’s Tamiment Labor Archive at the Bobst Libraries. A tireless advocate for women, Hemmerdinger has written for "Ms. Magazine," and is a member of the Board of Directors of Women’s Voices for Change and a regular contributor to its website. She is a founding board member of Dancing Dreams, which teaches a unique collaboration between high school girls and children with severe physical disabilities.
Film & Television

Crowds and Sounds and the Unexpected

By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger

The brilliant British filmmaker Lindsey Dryden, deaf in one ear since childhood and threatened with losing her hearing altogether, helps us “hear” the loss, feel the fright, and share the grace of a dancer, a young pianist, and a music critic who are doing the seemingly impossible.

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Film & Television · News

THE BIG PICTURE—‘ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME’

By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger
In an upcoming documentary, an icon tells the story of her early days on the stage, the false starts, the failed and full-blown romances, and her present-day struggles with time as she soldiers on from rehearsal to performance, cursing, praying, laughing, despairing, and wrestling with the tricks aging plays on us.
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