THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Marjorie DeBol DeFazio
1933 – 2020
Activist, Poet, Playwright, Director.
Member of the UN Speakers Bureau during the UN Year of the Woman. Founder and first elected CEO of the Women’s Interart Center, Co-founder of the Women’s Interart Theater.
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Photo 1. A Quiet Noise, by Marjorie DeFazio 1972. Photo 2. Marjorie and Anne West 1980.
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Marjorie DeBol DeFazio, 1973
More About Marjorie:
- Poems
- Select papers, plays, interviews
- “What time of night it is” by Patricia Horan & Marjorie DeFazio, a woman’s history musical, 1980
- Marjorie interviews Women’s suffrage activist Isola Dodic, 1978
- Marjorie interviews actress and teacher, Uta Hagen, 1978
- Guide to the Westbeth Playwrights’ Feminist Collective Records – New York Historical Society Museum & Library
- Pipe dream by Anne Brady and Marjorie DeFazio, 1971
- Select newspaper articles
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book, Feminists Who Changed America – page 114