Alix Kates Shulman is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best-known for her bestselling debut adult novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, hailed by the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing as "the first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement."
Shulman at discussion at Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in 2010
Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective
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.
Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective 1971 (L-r) Sally Ordway, Susan Yankowitz, Christina (Chryse) Maile, Gwen Gunn, Patricia Horan, Dolores Walker in center. Photo: Sondra Lowell
Rape-In showing scene from Liberation by Dolores Walker. Backdrop by Eunice Golden. Actors: Helen Pugatch, David Kent. 1971. Photo by Paul Lubitz
?! A Musical Revue showing scene from Trading Places by Sally Ordway. Actors (l-r) Kristen Christopher, Richard Darrow, Lois Beckett, Norman Thomas Marshall. 1973 Photo by Cookie Cirillo
Wicked Women Revue showing scene from Franklin's Bride by Chryse (Christina) Maile. Actors: (l-r) Helen Pugatch, Michael Darrow, Joel Simon, Tom Leo, Alix Elias. 1973. Photo by Patricia Horan