The 50th Anniversary of Undergraduate Co-Education Theater Project
PROJECT CONCEIVED BY JANE COX AND SUZANNE AGINS
NOW PLAYING!
Warning: This film includes content related to sexual assault, as well as racialized and sexualized language.
These short films were made in response to theater pieces written in the spring, which in turn were created as artistic responses to interviews with our protagonists. These short films are not documentaries. Artistic liberties have been taken and multiple translations have happened from life to story to theater piece to film. In no way should the details of these films be construed as historical fact.
The first undergraduate co-ed class arrived at Princeton University in the fall of 1969. In celebration of this milestone in 2019, the Program in Theater facilitated journalistic research by three generations of Princeton women—current students, professional artist alumnae, and the first generation of graduating women—to culminate in a theatrical event exploring the experiences of women at the University.
Students were paired with professional artist alumnae to research and create new, short performances about women who graduated from Princeton in the first few years of co-education at Princeton.
The process, led by Theater Director Jane Cox and Lecturer in Theater Suzanne Agins, began in the summer of 2019 and was intended to culminate in an evening of theater in the Berlind Theatre in April 2020. Instead, the process will culminate in the fall of 2020 with a short film. Agins, a Princeton alumna and professional director, will work with student-alumnae pairs to create a filmed archive of the work in collaboration with Milan Eldridge ’20.
This project is a recipient of a 2019-20 David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant for innovation and a grant from the Princeton Histories Fund.
Illustrations by Juliette Carbonnier ’24
Graphic Design by Tracy Patterson