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COLLETTE CULLEN
Dearborn, MI
Phone: 313-522-5726
Email: collettecullen@gmail.com
Website: http://anniesullivanspeaks.com

Performance Description: Veteran educator, award-winning actress, and motivational speaker Collette Cullen in an interactive dramatic presentation performs as Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne [Annie] Sullivan Macy. The presentation illustrates a historical and philosophical overview of America’s most famous teacher/student duo.

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Beginning with the story of Annie’s impoverished early life, including how Annie overcame her own disenfranchisement during her days in an asylum. As an orphan child of Irish immigrants who was visually impaired, Annie had to prevail against stereotypes and societal expectation. She would have festered illiterate in the asylum where she was left at the age of ten, had she not been so bold to beg the visiting dignitaries them to send her to school.

Annie is illustrative of those audacious woman who quietly alter history’s course by their attentions and stewardship of others abilities and talents. Annie understood the consequences of oppressed voice. Once Annie freed Helen’s voice through teaching her a communication system, they worked ceaselessly as social justice activist.

“Annie” inspires listener to forebear in efforts for justice, particularly in the realm of education. Helen said that the day she met Annie was the day of her souls birthday. This performance inspires and affirms how by acknowledging and affirming every ones voice the work is a more just and humane place.

MARIE KUNTZ
Lansing, Michigan
Phone: 517-974-0020
Email: mariejwow@aol.com

Performance Description: Marie Papciak brings Women’s History alive with her one woman show. During her performance, Marie transforms before the audience’s eyes from one historical woman into another without missing a beat. Her unique approach to teaching women’s history by bringing these women to life captures the imagination of children and adults alike. Positive character traits in women , from past-president’s wives to Suffragettes to athletes to unsung heroines are revealed through the dynamic portrayal of these women. You will learn about their hardships and victories and their major contributions to American History.

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Women portrayed are: Mary Todd Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Beatrix Potter, Juliette Gordon Low (founder of Girl Scouts), Sarah Emma Edmonds (disguised herself as a man to enter the Union Army), Laura Smith Haviland (Abolitionist & Superintendent Underground Railroad), Ruth Handler (creator of “Barbie” doll), Bette Nesmith ( inventor of Liquid Paper), and Bessie Coleman (1^st. African American female pilot).

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