# StageStruck! Session 8: Women as Directors and Choreographers

Chaired by Kelly Kessler, this panel featured three presentations: Laura MacDonald, Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University: American musical theater at Glyndebourne: Diane Paulus’s “Carmen” (2024) Mary Jo Lodge, Professor of Theater and Head of the Theater Department at Lafayette College: The Last (Twenty)Five Years: Women Directors and Director/Choreographers on Broadway Stacy Wolf and Dominic Broomfield-McHugh — closing discussion and wrap-up. 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 24 min
- By: Kessler, Kelly
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10930/)
- 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-10930?play=1)