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Elaine Bernstein Partnow, also known as Elaine Partnow, is a Los Angeles-based author and actor known for her living history portrayals and for her nationally lauded〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thequotablewoman.com/bookreviews.html )〕 book ''The Quotable Woman, The First 5,000 Years'' (2010), a collection of nearly 20,000 quotations by over 5,000 women from 167 nations. First published in 1977 as ''The Quotable Woman: 1800-1975'', it is currently in its sixth edition. Among the 17 published books Partnow has written or co-written are: ''Speaking with Power, Poise & Ease'' (2012), ''The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Your True Age'' (2009), and ''The Female Dramatist'' (1998). She is a (featured performing artist ) with the National Women's History Project. == Acting and Writing Career == Raised in the Los Angeles, California neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and Baldwin Hills, Partnow began acting in school plays as a kid and was cast in her first professional show two weeks after graduating high school. She won Best Actress at the Pasadena Playhouse during a county-wide high school contest. She attended UCLA, where she majored in Theatre Arts and was the youngest person at the time to win Best Actress from the department’s Kap ‘n Bells Honor Society. She moved to New York after college to study with German American actress and drama teacher Uta Hagen for two years in the mid-1960s at the HB Studios in New York, where she also studied with William Hickey. A member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA, Partnow’s (resume ) includes roles in dozens of stage plays, films, television shows, commercials, and music videos, including supporting roles in three Peter Bogdanovich films. More recently she has had cameo roles in several feature films. She left Los Angeles in 1981 to move to New Orleans. There she began doing arts-in-education in the schools, receiving sponsorship from Young Audiences, the (Louisiana Division of the Arts ) and the Arts and Humanities Council of Louisiana. She developed a number of programs for the schools, community centers, and other civic institutions, including “A Visit with Emily Dickinson,” “Hispanic Women Speak,” and “Movers & Shakers: American Women in the Public Arena.” In these presentations Partnow portrays historical figures with monologues prepared from the woman’s own words. With grant funding from the Southeast Disciplinary Fund (Rockefeller and NEA sponsored) in the 1980s, she wrote, produced and acted in her own one-woman show, Hear Us Roar, A Woman’s Connection, which was also produced in Seattle and Chicago. From New Orleans she moved to Seattle where her programs became popular with the “Inquiring Minds” series sponsored by the (Washington Commission for the Humanities ). In addition to her nonfiction books and magazine articles, Partnow has written three screenplays and two novels and has had some poetry published. In the spring of 2014, she began production of an educational video series that grew out of her arts-in-education work and the 39-character repertoire she developed. Currently called (The Quotable Woman Speaks: Living History Portraits of Amazing Women ), the first in a planned series of five is “Global Women Speak” in which Partnow portrays six historical figures: Murasaki Shikibu, Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sarah Winnemucca, Sojourner Truth, Golda Meir, and Benazir Bhutto. In April 2014, Partnow and her husband, Turner Browne ran a successful Kickstarter campaign garnering 188 donors to fund the video series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/315576434/the-quotable-woman-the-webseries )〕 The first video in the series is scheduled for release in the fall of 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elaine Bernstein Partnow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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