Shook, Pamela, 2020 October 17

Containers:

Digital-materials RL10066-SET-SHOOKP, Digital-materials digital-materials

Physical description:

4:34:10

Scope and content:

Tags: Pamela Shook; South Carolina; Southern Baptists; Christianity; Sojourner; Feminist Bookstores; Atlanta Georgia; Charis; Charis Books And More; Charis Feminist Books And More; A Celebration Of Women Artists; An Afternoon Of Sophie And Myrtle; Maraccas; Megan Terry; The X Miss Copper Queen On A Set Of Pills; American Sign Language; Bisexuality; North Carolina; South Carolina; Finding Feminism; Coming Out; Consciousness Raising; Eloise Bruce; Rena Carney; Emily Greene; Pagoda Playhouse; Pagoda Theatre; Barbara Lieu; Morgana; Morgana Macvicar; Trudy Anderson; Sherry Kliegman; Princess Cinderella; Lavender Lieu; Chrysalis; Leslie Eastman; Carole Powell; Womankind Books; Patty Johnson; Mary Jo; Kris Matson; Suzi Chance; Gail Reeder; Rosemary Curb; Feminist Theatre; Nancy Vogl; Berkeley Women's Music Collective (Bwmc); Alice Gerstenberg; Cathy Cook; Alix Dobkin; Sign Language; Kaimora; Kay Mora; Johanna Powell Colbert; Anna Rallo; Anna Flower; Dore Rotundo; Elethia; Dorothy Campbell; Paula Arden; Feminist Spirituality; Lesbian Spirituality; Ellen Spangler; Tarot; Marilyn Murphy; Irene Weiss; Lesbian Separatism; Female Separatism; Kathleen Hannan; Seeds For Peace; Hot Letters; Childcare; Gabby Penning

Biographical / historical:

Pamela Shook grew up in a conservative Southern Baptist family in South Carolina, where she attended Presbyterian College, earning a Fine Arts degree with a minor in Theatre (1973). She found feminism in Columbia, SC's feminist bookstore Sojourner, where she got into a CR group through which she also came out as lesbian. After moving to Atlanta to pursue an acting career, she saw an ad at Charis Books saying that a feminist theatre was starting at the Pagoda. She was hired over the phone, though it was unpaid (there were paid jobs she could do, mostly housekeeping), and stayed there all summer performing in A Celebration of Women Artists (a collection of monologues chosen by the actors), two plays by resident playwright Trudy Anderson (An Afternoon of Sophie Myrtle in June and Maraccas in July), and Megan Terry's The X Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills (August). She loved St. Augustine, but returned to Atlanta, continuing her freelance acting career while supporting herself with temp jobs. After learning American Sign Language (ASL), she went back to St. Augustine for two years, working at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind and often volunteering as ASL interpreter for Pagoda events. Once again, she returned to Atlanta, where she had better theatre connections and opportunities which allowed her to keep performing. Always identifying as bisexual (though not necessarily openly), she has continued her close ties with the feminist community.

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