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I Am My Own Wife

I Am My Own Wife

by Charlotte von Mahlsdorf

February 1st - 23rd, 2019

Directed by

Michael Yavnieli

Cast

Alec Norris

I Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde, who killed her father when she was a young child and survived the Nazi and Communist regimes in East Berlin as a transgender woman. I Am My Own Wife received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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