Scenes From the Life of Julia Morgan: A Read-It-Yourself experience with Judith Offer

Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Admission: Members Only - Free
Location: 4th Floor Meeting Room

Wish you could have been an actor? Here’s your chance!

Judith Offer, Oakland playwright and MIL member, will lead a reading of her carefully researched play Scenes From the Life of Julia Morgan. This is an opportunity for MIL members to test, hone, or revive acting skills while having fun with other members and learning about the life of Julia Morgan, California’s first woman architect.

If you would like to listen, or take part as a reader please contact Taryn Edwards to reserve your spot. Parts will be assigned on a first come-first served basis.

Judith Offer has written several history plays, including Compared to What? about the Pullman porters, which was produced in Vallejo in July 2011. She also has a widely-used teacher's workbook, California History Plays for Young People.

Want to learn more about Julia Morgan? The library has several titles to broaden your knowledge about this pioneering architect.

Judith Offer has had two daughters, five books of poetry and dozens of plays. (Eighteen of the latter, including six musicals, have been produced.) She has read her poetry at scores of poetry venues, but is particularly delighted to have been included in the Library of Congress series and on “All Things Considered”, on NPR. Her writing reflects her childhood in a large Catholic family—with some Jewish roots—her experience as teacher, community organizer, musician, historian, gardener, and all-purpose volunteer, and her special fascination with her roles of wife and mother. Her most recent book of poetry, called DOUBLE CROSSING, is poems about Oakland, California, where she lives with her husband, Stuart.