Terry Baum
Terry Baum is an actress, director, teacher, filmmaker, political activist and a pioneer lesbian playwright. Critics have compared her to Lily Tomlin, Norman Mailer, Godzilla, Bea Arthur, and Woody Allen--but never in the same review. Her plays have been published in three anthologies, produced all over the world, and translated into many languages. As a solo performer of her own work, she's toured the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Israel, South Africa, Cuba, and Morocco. In 1974, she moved to...See more
Terry Baum is an actress, director, teacher, filmmaker, political activist and a pioneer lesbian playwright. Critics have compared her to Lily Tomlin, Norman Mailer, Godzilla, Bea Arthur, and Woody Allen--but never in the same review. Her plays have been published in three anthologies, produced all over the world, and translated into many languages. As a solo performer of her own work, she's toured the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Israel, South Africa, Cuba, and Morocco. In 1974, she moved to San Francisco to found Lilith Women's Theater Collective, which she led for five years. Starting in 2010, she has been one- half of The Crackpot Crones, performing subversive feminist comedy and improvisation with Carolyn Myers throughout the U.S., and in Mexico as Las Rucas Locas. In 2014 they co-produced HICK: A Love Story, which won a Fringe Fave and an encore performance at the 2014 New York Fringe Festival. Currently based in San Francisco, Baum continues to tour her work, and remains active artistically and politically (including running for public office in 2004 and 2011). See less