Presenter's Background

 

Annette M. Baldwin has been researching, scripting, and performing first-person historical portrayals since 1986, when she launched her portrayal of Jane Addams, founder of Chicago's social settlement, Hull-House. Since then her women's history performances, Readers Theatre, slide presentations, lectures, and in-character speeches have been presented to scores of libraries, historical societies and museums, colleges and universities, professional associations, and community organizations in seventeen states.

 

In addition to Jane Addams, Baldwin's repertoire of first-person histories includes, fashion designer Coco Chanel, Civil War spy Elizabeth Van Lew, journalist Dorothy Thompson, and woman's rights leader Susan B. Anthony.  Woven into one production, The Long Road to Victory, is the story of the woman suffrage movement, where the audience is introduced to five of its leaders: Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony.

 

Ms. Baldwin's Jane Addams has appeared for the Hull House Association and at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.  For four consecutive summers she appeared in the Heartland Chautauqua, sponsored by the Missouri and Illinois Humanities Councils, performing as Elizabeth Van Lew and as Coco Chanel. She has appeared as Chanel and Elizabeth Van Lew for the High Plains Chautauqua in Colorado, and her portrayal of Susan B. Anthony has been presented in the Chautauqua tents of New Hampshire, Maryland, and Jacksonville, Illinois   Among The Long Road to Victory performances are those for the Illinois Commission for the Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, the Frazier International Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; and the East Lynne Theater Company, Cape May, N.J. 

Ms. Baldwin has compiled the scripts for three Readers Theater productions, in which she also performs: Literary Lovers, recreating the romances of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, and Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; By Necessity/By Choice, a history of America's early working women; and From her Pen, illuminating women writers.  She has also created Architectural Travelogues on the work of Julia Morgan, architect of Randolph Hearst's San Simeon, and of Mary Colter, architect and designer of Grand Canyon buildings. From a repertoire of historical women, she has been invited to create and deliver speeches for special occasions.

Moments in Time is committed to presenting programs that inspire, entertain, and educate.