"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps in politics more than anywhere else."

-Shirley Chisholm, Democratic Party, 1972

A Simple Herstory is a theatrical and high concept podcast series about the women who have run for President of the United States. Over a hundred women have made a run for it, but their stories are rarely heard.

This podcast series features the lives of the women who aggressively, voraciously, and passionately sought to assume the highest office in the land - and lost. Part experimental radio play, it will feature an all woman cast and it will be written, directed, & designed by notable American theater talent. Executed with a commitment to structural narrative deviations, the series bends our expectations, not just of content, but of form. The first season is about the first woman to make a bid for the presidency - Victoria Woodhull. She ran in 1872, before women had the right to vote. She was a suffragette, a labor advocate, a newspaper publisher, a stock broker, an actress, a con artist, and a spiritualist medium. Jocelyn Kuritsky (The Muse Project), Jonathan A. Goldberg (The Fall of the House of Sunshine), and Donya K. Washington (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) team up to create the series' inaugural season. The project is a warts and all look at the women, their ambitions, their drives, their ascents, their plummets.

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A Simple Herstory is a new podcast series about all the women who have run for President of the United States. Over a hundred women have made a run for it, but their stories are rarely heard.

This podcast series features the lives of the women who aggressively, voraciously, and passionately sought to assume the highest office in the land - and lost. Part experimental radio play, it will feature an all woman cast and it will be written, directed, & designed by notable American theater talent. Executed with a commitment to structural narrative deviations, the series bends our expectations, not just of content, but of form. The first season is about the first woman to make a bid for the presidency - Victoria Woodhull. She ran in 1872, before women had the right to vote. She was a suffragette, a labor advocate, a newspaper publisher, a stock broker, an actress, a con artist, and a spiritualist medium. Jocelyn Kuritsky (The Muse Project), Jonathan A. Goldberg (The Fall of the House of Sunshine), and Donya K. Washington (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) team up to create the series' inaugural season. The project is a warts and all look at the women, their ambitions, their drives, their ascents, their plummets.

From outsiders to insiders, and outsiders again, these are the women who ran. 

Check out our teaser.
​And check back soon for more surprises.

A Simple Herstory · Victoria Woodhull: Teaser

Produced by The Muse Project + The Tank

Slider Photo Credits: Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Chase Smith, Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink, Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Dole, Kamala Harris - public domain; Belva Ann Lockwood - Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; neg. no. LC USZ 62 11082
; Charlene Mitchell -  Gene Koppack; Elaine Brown - Facebook (2/16); Roseanne Barr - Modified screenshot of Roseanne Barr from Jordan Brady's film "I Am Comic" (6/10), CC BY-SA 3.0.