The Woman Question is a docufantasy exploring the legacy of The Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania through the lens of a strikingly diverse group of medical students from the class of 1894. The goal of the project is to dig into untold history and unearth a toolkit for resistance against misogyny in contemporary medicine and law. The ensemble style is a playful body- and pleasure-forward explosion of Victorian theatre and parlor games: charades, melodrama, vaudeville, pantomime, tableaux vivant.

 

Suli Holum co-founded Pig Iron Theatre Company, co-creating 15 original theater works, and began her playwriting career with Barrymore Award Winning Gentlemen Volunteers, published in Pig Iron: 3 Plays (53rd Street Press). Holum later partnered with playwright Deborah Stein to form Stein | Holum Projects (SHP), where she collaborated as a devising performer and co-director.  SHP’s Chimera, developed through the HERE Artists Residency Program and supported by a TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship, premiered as part of The Under the Radar Festival. It earned Holum a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, and toured internationally. SHP's The Wholehearted was a recipient of a NEFA National Theatre Project grant, premiered at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, and toured nationally. Holum’s work as a writer of new performance includes the sprawling site-specific Wandering Alice with Nichole Canuso Dance Company and Oedipus at FDR with Emmanuelle Delpech — an original adaptation set in the battered skate park under I-95 — Fighting for Democracy and Fourteen commissioned by the National Constitution Center, One Beach Road with RedCape Theatre, UK, and A Fierce Kind of Love with the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. She also works as a director and performer across Philadelphia stages, and is a member of the HotHouse resident acting company at The Wilma Theatre. Holum recently received an MFA in Playwriting from Goddard College, and is thrilled to be working as both playwright and performer on the Pew supported The Woman Question with People’s Light.