THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Myrna Lamb
August 3, 1930 – September 15, 2017
“No more proving yourself as women by breeding. Do something about the way the world is. Women are taught to avoid risk. But take one. Do something.”
Playwright. Honorary board member of Veteran Feminists of America.
Photo 1. The Mod Donna and Scyklon Z: Plays of Women’s Liberation by Myrna Lamb, 1971. Photo 2. Betty Friedan and Myrna Lamb at the Veteran Feminists of America event, Salute to Betty Friedan, November 12,1999.
More About Myrna:
- Obituary
- “Housewives: Did you think that the world was shut out forever sometimes…?” Playwright asks.
- Thoughts of a Feminist Playwright, The Boston Globe, February 1971.
- Myrna Lamb: Playwright, The Herald News, May 1970
- Myrna Lamb select interviews 1971 – 1977, Pacifica Radio Archives
- Playwrights David Berry (“G.R. Point”), Phillip Hayes Dean (“Paul Robeson”), Myrna Lamb, literary agent Audrey Wood, and lawyer Jay S. Harris discuss play development with moderators Henry Hewes and Jean Dalrymple and host Isabelle Stevenson. American Theatre Wing,1979.
- “Woman; Write on Women Playwrights.” 1974-09-25. WNED, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC.
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pages 267 – 268
