American Heroine: Poet Phillis Wheatley
Description
In this episode, Girl Museum resident scholar Elizabeth Dillenberg discusses American poet Phillis Wheatley in honor of Black History Month as well as to introduce the new Girl Museum exhibition for March Heroines of the American Revolution and actor Sarah Sulewski reads Wheatley’s ‘To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth’.
Poem: To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth
Actor details:
Sarah Sulewski is currently a second-year MFA Acting student at the University of Florida. She is originally from the sunny state of California, and she identifies as a Queer, Black, multi-hyphenate artist who believes in the power of art to change the world. Since attending UF, she has starred in five on-campus productions: Yemaya's Belly, Blood at the Root, The Solo Performance Festival, La Mar, and the musical The Prom. She is currently in rehearsals for her sixth UF production, The Pliant Girls, a feminist retelling of Aeschylus' The Suppliants.
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