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We Did It For You! Film Screening

and Q&A Session with the Filmmakers and Cast

Watch the locally produced film We Did It For You! Women's Journey Through History at the Dedham Community Theatre for FREE this Women's Equality Day!

We Did It For You! (2022) is an engaging musical that tells of the struggles and triumphs women have undergone to get their basic rights in America. A high school student has a history project to figure out who has done the most for women of today, and she learns the answer from the women who were there. The film shares 400 years of history through anecdotes and accomplishments of historical figures. Importantly, it identifies the problems women are still up against on their road towards equality. This screening of We Did It For You! and following Q&A with the filmmakers and cast, including Dr. Thea Iberall, is brought to you free of charge by the Dedham Public Library, Dedham Community Theatre and We Did It For You LLC.

Best suited for audiences ages 13+. Registration is required. Refreshments are available for purchase. Please email Brittany at btuttle.ddm@minlib.net with questions. 

"The lessons learned here apply to both genders and all ages and can be applied to contemporary issues, making them as relevant today as they were 100 or more years ago." - Mitzi March Mogul, Vice President, Heritage Square Museum

About the Film & Creators:

Originally a play, We Did It For You! was first produced by the Women's Journey Conference in Costa Mesa, CA in 2010, and was developed into the play-reading workshop version in 2011. Since then, thousands of women, men, high schoolers and college students across California and eastern Massachusetts, including the League of Women Voters, American Association of University Women, Soroptimists International, National Council for Jewish Women, and Daughters of the American Revolution, have seen it performed by a dedicated troupe of volunteers who care about the women's rights and active participation in our democracy. On Women's Equality Day 2017, We Did It For You! began performances in Massachusetts; during the pandemic, performances continued online. Finally, in 2022, the play was turned into a film. To host a screening or schedule a workshop, visit WeDidItForYou.org. 

Dr. Thea Iberall (playwright, co-lyricist "We Need to Rise", "Power of a Spark", "Then and Now") is an award-winning writer, storyteller, and scientist. She has been producing the play We Did It For You! in California and Massachusetts since 2011. Thea was inducted into the International Educators Hall of Fame in 2015. She's had over 50 poems published in journals and anthologies including The Southern California Anthology, Spillway, poeticdiversity, and numerous other journals. Thea was a semi-finalist in the 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize and also in the Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition. She is the author of The Swallow and the Nightingale, an ecofeminist novel about a 4,000-year old secret brought through time by the birds. Connect with Thea at TheaIberall.com.