The University of Colorado, Boulder is producing They Promised Her the Moon by Laurel Ollstein as their 2021-22 Roe Green Production.
The Roe Green Visiting Theatre Artist fund allows them to invite a professional guest artist to campus each year to work with students. The department welcomes Kent Thompson as this year’s Roe Green Visiting Artist.Kent Thompson directs a cast of CU Boulder Department of Theatre & Dance’s talented student performers.
Many people know the history of the space race and the Mercury Seven. But few have heard the ill-fated story of Jerrie Cobb and the Mercury 13: a group of women who underwent the same rigorous psychological and physical astronaut training as their male counterparts but were ultimately denied entry into the space program based on their sex. They Promised Her the Moon by Laurel Ollstein is a highly theatrical, stunning look at the forces that keep women grounded, for better or worse.
They Promised Her the Moon was developed and produced by Miranda Theatre Company in 2017.
They Promised Her the Moon was developed at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as part of their New Works Festival.
They Promised Her the Moon received its West Coast premiere on April 11, 2019 at The Old Globe, Barry Edelstein, Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director, and Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director