# StageStruck! Session 7: Women in Production, Writing and Marketing

Chaired by Alex Bádue, this panel featured three lectures: Dean Adams, Senior Associate Dean of Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte: Women as Producers of Broadway’s Musicals Samantha Lampe, PhD Candidate in Musicology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Evita? Mary Bryant’s Marketing Strategy Shoshana Greenberg, NYC-based Lyricist and Librettist: Inner City: The Groundbreaking Musical for Women Writers on Broadway That No One Has Heard Of Part of the sixth StageStruck! Conference: “Women and the American Musical,” a three-day conference May 14-16, 2025, hosted by the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

The centrality of women to the American musical on stage and screen has long been acknowledged by scholarship. This special edition of StageStruck! at the Library of Congress focused on the latest research related to women in and around the American musical in all formats and media, and showcased the Library’s rich collections related to the subject.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 1 h 29 min
- By: Bádue, Alex
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10928/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-10928?play=1)