SEVEN begins! Seven women playwrights begin interviews of international women leaders connected to the network of Vital Voices Global Partnership in 2006.
Each playwright creates a monologue illuminating the life of her interviewee based on many interviews over many months from 2006-2007. The playwrights meet and try out the monologues and present them at a reading at New Dramatists, February 2007.
SEVEN is awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Consortium grant.
Playwrights are awarded a Residency Fellowship for development of SEVEN at Voice & Vision ENVISION Retreat at Bard College and work for 2 weeks weaving the individual monologues together into a single script, draft one: July 2007.
2008
SEVEN premieres on Martin Luther King Day at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, January 21, 2008.
Diane von Furstenberg produces SEVEN at the Furstenberg Studio, March 6, 2008.
SEVEN opens Women Center Stage at The Culture Project, New York City, April 2008.
SEVEN opens the Economic Forum for Women in Deauville, France, October 2008.
The Seven Monologues, "JOURNEYS," are produced in workshop at La Mama ETC, NYC, October 2-19, 2008.
SEVEN is performed at Harman Center for the Arts, Washington, DC, November 12, 2008.
SEVEN is translated by Hedda Kraus Sjogren into Swedish.
Under Hedda's direction, in association with Riksteatern, the National Touring Theatre of Sweden, the play begins a tour of Sweden and other countries that continues to present day, starting with the following performances:
FolkTeatern, Gothenburg, Sweden,* October 7, 2008.
University of Lund, Sweden,* October 16, 2008 .
Elverket/Powerstation@Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm,* November 17, 2008.
Riksteatern, Hallunda, Sweden,* November, 2008.
(*Part of Sweden's "Home Not Home" Festival)
2009
SEVEN is performed at the Burden Auditorium, Harvard, March 16, 2009.
SEVEN is performed at the NYU Skirball Center, March 26, 2009.
SEVEN is performed in London at the Royal Aeronautical Society, June 1, 2009, hosted by Baroness Mary Goudie for Vital Voices Global Partnership.
SEVEN opens the Aspen Conference of Ideas, Aspen, Colorado, June 29, 2009.
In Sweden a Riksteatern and Hedda Sjogren event: SEVEN is performed at the Visby Political Week, Visby, Sweden, June 30, 2009.
The Riksteatern/Hedda fall tour takes SEVEN to 20 communities in Sweden including:
Gnosjo, Sweden, September 12, 2009.
Democracy Day, Stockholm University, September 15, 2009.
Sundsvall, Sweden, Oct 1, 2, 2009.
Helsingborg, October 7, 2009.
Goteborg, October 8, 2009.
SEVEN is produced by Visalia Community Players, Visalia, CA, October 2009. (9 performances)
SEVEN and the individual monologues are published by Dramatists Play Service. November 2009.
SEVEN is performed at Nieuwe Kerk, the Hague, December 1& 2, 2009. (Produced by Riksteatern and the Swedish Cultural Institute.)
2010
SEVEN is produced at Theatre Oxford, Sardis, MS, February 2010. (3 performances)
Riksteatern/Hedda event: In celebration of International Women's Day, SEVEN is performed at readings throughout Sweden, March 2010.
SEVEN opens the Tina Brown Women in the World Summit, The Hudson Theatre, NYC, March 12, 2010.
SEVEN is read at the Arts in One World Conference, Providence, RI, March 20, 2010.
SEVEN is the centerpiece of The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Women, a collaboration of Vital Voices Global Partnership and the Avon Foundation for Women:
Vital Voices launches their Asian Summit with a performance of SEVEN in Delhi, India, September 2010.
SEVEN is translated into Spanish, funded by Avon Foundation, Fighting Violence Against Women Campaign; performances in Argentina, October, November 2010.
Riksteatern/Hedda Sjogren take SEVEN to Sweden's Visby Political Week where it is performed by an all-male cast made up of members of Parliament from several political parties, July 2010.
Riksteatern/Hedda take SEVEN on a Swedish Cultural Institute tour:
Istanbul, Turkey, September 23, 2010.
Goteborg, Sweden, October 28, 2010.
Abuja, Nigeria, November 17, 2010.
Almhult, Sweden, December 2, 2010.
The Hague, December 6, 2010.
Parliament of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium, December 8, 9, 2010
SEVEN is performed by faculty at ICEBOX Theatre at Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL, December 2010.
SEVEN is performed at Human ACTion Festival, San Diego, CA, December 8, 2010.
2011
SEVEN opens at the McCoy Theatre at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 17, 2011.
Riksteatern/Hedda Sjogren SEVEN events continue with performances in:
Valtimontteateri, Snellmaninstitute, Helsinki, Finland, February 24, 2011.
Glazen Zaal, The Hague, The Netherlands, March 7, 2011.
Ortagodu Teknik University, Ankara, Turkey, March 8, 2011.
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 8, 2011.
Women4Women Society, Durham University, U.K., - March 14, 2011.
Roda sten, Goteborg, Sweden, March 19, 2011
University of Leeds, U.K., March 26, 2011.
SEVEN is performed at the Silk Road Theatre Project's El Kasida Reading Series, March 31, 2011 and April 1, 2011, at Silk Road Theatre, Pierce Hall at the Historic Chicago Temple Bldg &
Silk Road presents SEVEN at the 16th Annual Asian American Showcase, sponsored by the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media at the Gene Siskel Film Center, April 2, 2011.
SEVEN is produced at Wayland Baptist College, Plainview, TX, April 2011. (4 performances)
SEVEN is performed at Artist's Path: The Artist and Social Justice, Prescott, AZ, April 2011. (2 performances)
SEVEN is performed in Stockholm by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom on Disarmament Day in Sweden, May 24, 2011.