I wrote It's My Party! to celebrate the 19th amendment's centennial in 2020. When I started thinking about how to shape the story, I realized that political change has never been easy in America. But is it even possible — especially when two different factions, like the established wing of a party and the newer generation--fight for the same end goal, but use wildly divergent tactics?  

Here we see that people with very different ideas of how to make political and social change actually CAN make that change. These groups of women--the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (the older organization) and the National Woman’s Party (the upstarts)--definitely did not work together; in fact, they got in each others’ way!  But through it all, the strategizing and organizing, the marches and headline-grabbing spectacles, together they succeeded in swaying public opinion, convincing the president, and a majority in Congress that women deserved to be heard!

—Ann Timmons

Pipeline Playwrights is the only theater collaborative in the Washington, DC area dedicated to producing new plays by women playwrights. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation founded by women playwrights, Pipeline seeks to close the theatre gender gap one play, one reading, one production at a time. The members of Pipeline Playwrights are Crystal Adaway, Nicole Burton, Patricia Connelly, Jean Koppen, and Ann Timmons. Find out more at https://www.pipelineplaywrights.org