CO-WRITER & DIRECTOR

Victoria Rue, M.Div., Ph.D. is co-writer and director of the play Voices from the Silenced. She is lecturer emerita at San Jose State University in Comparative Religious Studies. She has written a book and numerous articles, her book is Acting Religious: Theatre as Pedagogy in Religious Studies. As a theatre writer/director of forty years her work has been seen in NYC, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Bethlehem, Palestine. Victoria is also a Roman Catholic woman priest. Her current ministry is at Planned Parenthood where she escorts women into the clinic due to protestors who would have it otherwise.

CO-WRITER & DIRECTOR

Martha Boesing is co-writer and director of Voices from the Silenced. She has written over 40 produced plays, led workshops, and directed plays for theaters. throughout the country. She was the co-Founder and Artistic Director of At the Foot of the Mountain Theater in Minneapolis (the longest running professional women's theater in the country) from 1974-84. She has won several national awards including an NEA, a Bush fellowship, and the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American playwrights. In the last several decades, she has created and directed plays with several theaters mostly in San Francisco and Minneapolis. In the sixties, she was a company member of Minneapolis' Firehouse Theater (an iconoclastic, experimental theater), and her work remains true to the ideological concerns of that time.

PRODUCER

Mindy Zuckerman is a happily retired producer living in the Bay Area. She has forty-three years of experience producing corporate events all over the world. She is incredibly grateful to the San Francisco film community who donated their time to create these films. Mindy gets great joy from raising money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to help find a cure. She also plays the Ukulele, and loves spending time with her grandchildren.

DIRECTOR

For over 25 years, Randy has designed and directed film/video for a wide range of commercial and corporate clients that include Apple, IBM, Cisco, Philips, Disney General Motors, McDonald’s and Lucasfilms.

 He has also directed a number of independent documentaries that have garnered numerous international awards.

They include VOICES, CRIME OF THE BIG LEAGUES, THE HIGH AND THE MINDLESS, JACK AND THE UNABOMBER, HOOKED FOR LIFE.

EDITOR

Gary Weimberg is a multiple emmy-award winning editor and documentary film maker at Luna Productions. He has been a defender of abortion rights since he was 15 years old; through cultural work, media work, political work, and physically defending clinics during a time when that was what we needed to do.

Born in the north of England, Jean studied drama in London. In the U.S. since 1962, she has appeared in many productions throughout the Bay Area, New Zealand and Australia, with “Voices” being one of her most memorable.

She has written over 40 produced plays, led workshops, and directed plays for theaters throughout the country.

Celenia hopes this attack on women’s autonomy that we are currently experiencing stops. The time is now.

Lynne is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitiioner, involved in women’s care for over 50 years. She has traveled to many countries providing health care as a volunteer. This project has been inspiring and necessary for her to leave a legacy to all of the women growing up after her.

Lee Gale Gruen retired from her 37-year career as a probation officer and became an actress, author, public speaker, and blogger. Her transition to becoming an actress in her senior years was profiled in Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times newspaper, AARP, and in Marlo Thomas' 2014 book which profiles women who have reinvented themselves.

Chris is a writer, director, actor, drama therapist and collaborator in Spoken Duets performance poetry. She is honored to be in the ensemble of Voices of the Silenced.

Rev. Dr. Truelson is a Roman Catholic woman priest, a RN, an activist and not a professional actor. She participated and supported “Voices From The Silenced” to promote reproductive justice & women’s “choice” versus men’s governing of women’s equal rights.

Cynthia, lifelong theater artist, loves humanity in spite of everything. Her parents gave her bongos at Christmas at age 8, sealing her fate as a percussionist.

California born, her mind spins heavenward at any excuse.

Elizabeth is a retired attorney from Brooklyn now living in Northern California. She was delighted to play the cello in this important production.