The Work
The Women
In Laurie S. Sherman's ritual theater, characters are called Women — not roles, not parts. These are the Women who appear across her plays and sacred texts: biblical figures, historical voices, invented witnesses, women who refused to disappear. Each portrait is a sketch — a presence, not a likeness.
Rabbi Abby Stein
Idit
Lot's Wife
Jessica Meir
Tikvah bat Neshamah
A woman of 40, who lives in 2080
Eve
Aly Raisman
Sarah bat Tovim
Lilith
Sarah Imahot
Marcia Falk
Bella Abzug
Shikma Bressler
Judith
Miriam
Anne · Golda · Jessica
Three Voices
Charlotte Salomon
Age 26
Anne Frank
Miriam
In Song
Miriam
Stillness After Song
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Orli bat Neshama
Henrietta Szold
Hannah Szenes
Ruth
Judith Plaskow
Emma Lazarus
Debbie Friedman
Barbra Streisand
Portraits from the plays of Laurie S. Sherman · Click any image to enlarge