And speaking of a hunger for words, Suzan-Lori Parks is presiding over the staging by hundreds of theaters nationwide of “365 Days/365 Plays.” A few years, ago she embarked on a project to write a play everyday for a year. Parks, who is a 2001 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright — she won the award in 2002 for her play “Topdog/Underdog,” came up with this novel idea. Several colleges and universities are involved in the “365” project, where undergraduates and, in some cases, professional actors perform the various plays. On some campuses, undergraduates oversee the entire process of casting, rehearsing and presenting. It is forcing the participants to be very creative, as some of Park’s plays are just a few sentences, others are several pages, reports Mark Blankenship in “One Play a Day.”
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, this edition shows the diversity among women who are making a contribution within higher education. They may not know it, but they serve as role models to countless women.
Hilary Hurd Anyaso
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