Angela will premiere the role of Elisabeth Woodbridge (Morris) in the newly commissioned mini-opera Petticoats and Sliderules by Elizabeth Rudolph with Third Eye Theatre Ensemble at the Edge Theater as part of a double bill celebrating women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).

“Petticoats and Sliderules (Elizabeth Rudolph - 2021) is a piece for 2 voices, violin, and cello inspired by and based on a 2003 interview in the archives of the Society for Women Engineers, an organization that Lois Graham helped to found. It is structured as a conversation across decades between Lois, who was the first American woman to earn a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1956, and Elisabeth Woodbridge (Morris), who was a suffragette and one of the first women ever to earn a PhD at Yale in 1908. The text for the soprano is excerpted from Woodbridge’s writing in 1923, not long after women in the USA won the right to vote. The title of the piece was an imaginative early name suggestion when they were founding the Society of Women Engineers. For those of us still working toward true gender equity, I hope this piece serves to illustrate both how far we’ve come in the past century and how far we have yet to go.” - Elizabeth Rudolph, composer