Production History

Theater/Venue:
Dickinson College

City/State:
Carlisle, PA

Month/Year:
The Friday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 23 (8 p.m.) ,2008

Director:
Shamus McCarty

Designers:
Shamus McCarty was involved in an advanced Directing Class which had them involved in every process including design.

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I am my Own Wife
Written by Doug Wright








Produced Organization:
Delphi Productions, in association with Playwrights Horizons.

Theatre/Venue:
At the Lyceum Theater

City, State:
Manhattan, New York

Month, Year:
December 3, 2003, Wednesday

Director:
Moisés Kaufman

Designers:
Sets by- Derek McLane
Lighting by- David Lander
Costumes by- Janice Pytel
Sound by- Andre J. Pluess


http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9505E5DB163DF937A35751C1A9659C8B63

Of all the peculiar entries in the Broadway derby this fall, perhaps the most peculiar is Doug Wright's fascinating one-actor play starring Jefferson Mays, ''I Am My Own Wife.'' A critical success in its limited run earlier this year Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, it has now moved to the Lyceum Theater, where it opened last night amid all kinds of doubts that such a work might find enough of a mainstream audience to sustain it.
You have to wonder, How many visitors from the heartland of America will be eager to pass up the bling-bling of a Broadway musical for this quiet, dramatic tale about an East German transvestite played by an unknown male actor speaking in heavily accented English and wearing a black dress and a string of pearls?
That being said, let me urge them to do so. For the producers of ''I Am My Own Wife'' have done theatergoers a service by giving the play a chance to be more widely seen. And it has, in fact, broader appeal than a mere description would have you believe. It is not an esoteric work, and it isn't especially kinky.
It does, however, tell a terrific story based on a real person, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (née Lothar Berfelde), a soft-spoken but tenaciously gender-bending biological male who died in 2002 at 74. Her lifelong obsession -- Mahlsdorf preferred to be thought of as female -- was the preservation of furniture, especially pieces from the 1890's, and other household relics like Victrolas and gramophones.
Her devotion to her astonishing collection -- she turned her home into a museum -- gave focus and motivation to a life whose grandest achievement was that it proceeded to its natural end. In fact, ''I Am My Own Wife'' is largely about Charlotte's enduring the cruel repressions of the Nazis and the Communists, and her harrowing tales of survival through the eras of the Gestapo and the Stasi, the East German secret police, are nothing short of breathtaking.

By BRUCE WEBER
Published: December 4, 2003, Thursday
NY Times-Theater Reviews

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Theatre/Venue:
Mad Cow Theatre

City, State:
Orlando, FL

Month(s), Year:
July 15-August 9, 2009

Director:
Alan Bruun

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Theater/Venue:
Arcadia University

City/State:
Glenside, Pennsylvania

Month/ Year:
2008-2009

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Theater/Venue:
Albertson College of Idaho

City/ State:
Idaho

Month/Year:
February 9-11, 2006

Director:
Alex Zamora

Designers:
Alex Zamora designed his own set and costumes.
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