Name Lois Weaver Role Writer | ||
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Obie Award for Performance Nominations GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off Broadway Similar People Peggy Shaw, Holly Hughes, Bette Bourne | ||
Education Radford University (1972) Organizations founded Split Britches | ||
Lois weaver and peggy shaw fear of laughing 1986 nichols and may routine
Lois Weaver (born 1949, Roanoke, Virginia) is a Guggenheim-winning artist, activist, writer, director, and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Her work centres on feminism, human rights and possibilities for public participation. Active for over four decades she is the founding member of significant New York theatre companies Spiderwoman (1976), Split Britches (1980) and WOW (Women's One World Cafe) (1980). Weaver came to London to take on the role of artistic director for Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in the early 1990s. She lives in New York and London.
Contents
- Lois weaver and peggy shaw fear of laughing 1986 nichols and may routine
- Peopling the palace including interviews with lois weaver and nick ridout
- Performance
- Filmography
- Teaching and workshops
- References
Peopling the palace including interviews with lois weaver and nick ridout
Performance
Weaver's theatre and performance practice spans collaborative and solo work. She was a co-founder of feminist theatre company Spiderwoman Theatre, whose members focused on using their own stories to address gender roles, economic realities and violence in women's lives. Weaver, along with Peggy Shaw and Deb Margolin founded Split Britches, an award-winning company who use theatricality to create work that centres on lesbian and queer identities. Lois Weaver has had productive collaborative relationships with theatre and performance artists Holly Hughes, Bloolips founded by Bette Bourne, Curious, and Stacy Makishi
Filmography
Teaching and workshops
Weaver developed the Long Table as an experimental open public forum as part of the Restock, Rethink, Reflect series of events at the Live Art Development Agency, Hackney Wick, London.