“A warm human portrayal …A tribute not only to Elizabeth Cady Stanton but to the actress herself.” Backstage, NY

“Eloquent … remarkably contemporary … particularly moving” – New York Today

“A Brilliant tour de force … an amazingly human monologue” – The New Voice of New York

“A bravura performance … with exuberance, intelligence, wit, and vulnerability.” – The Washington Post

“Elizabeth Perry’s Stanton makes ‘Sun Flower’ a winner … a loving and instructive portrait” – The Washington Times

“Elizabeth Perry shines as Elizabeth Cady Stanton – makes a dry, dusty figure from the history books comes alive – The Leader Herald, Johnstown, NY (Mrs. Stanton’s birthplace)

“…A 100%, undiluted all-American woman … unlike the stereotypes feminists have battled throughout history” – The Recorder/Amsterdam/Johnstown, NY

Gonzalee Ford, President of SPBC Chapter of NOW
"Elizabeth Perry's performance of Elizabeth Cady Stanton brought tears to my eyes and really fired me up for the work we all have ahead of us..."

Ann E. W. Stone, National Chairman, Republicans for Choice
"Your performance in Sun Flower took my breath away. I felt like I had a front row seat watching history as it unfolded. In fact I enjoyed it so much I have now seen it at least 6 or 7 times and each time I am amazed that I notice something new that I missed the time before! Thank you for creating this piece about this revolutionary woman whose courage and vision not only shook up the 19th century but shaped the future of the 20th and 21st as well."

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Elizabeth Perry, Performer

Elizabeth Perry (Actor/Playwright) began her career with a Helen Hayes Award Scholarship to the American Theatre Wing presented by Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthur. At a young age she appeared with Paul Muni and Ed Begley in Inherit the Wind, was Polly Peachum in The Three Penny Opera, created the role of Catherine Howard in Royal Gambit, and played Allison in Look Back in Anger, and Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in summer stock before going to Hollywood, where she starred in numerous TV classics such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and Outer Limits, as well as in the West Coast premieres of The Great God Brown, The Balcony, The Collection, and Touch of the Poet.

On her return to New York, under the artistic direction of Ellis Rabb and Jack O'Brien, with the APA Phoenix Repertory at New York's Lyceum Theatre and at the APA base in Ann Arbor, she played Lady Macbeth, The Player Queen in Hamlet, Eliante in The Misanthrope,Verenanda in Chronicles of Hell, The Little Queen in The King Dies, and Woman in Beckett's Play.

On Broadway, Ms. Perry played opposite George C. Scott in the hit revival of Present Laughter, in 84 Charing Cross Road, The Women, and in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. Off-Broadway she played in Isn't it Romantic, A Perfect Ganesh, The Chairs, and Fefu and Her Friends, among many other outstanding productions. Her regional credits include Painting Churches, The Subject Was Roses, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Farm, Peer Gynt, Glass Menagerie, Steel Magnolias, and On Golden Pond.

On television she has played major roles on Kate and Allie , Another World, As the World Turns, Nurse, and MacDowell’s Ride, a historical drama for PBS made at WGBS Boston. Previously in her Hollywood years she guest starred on numerous TV classics such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Outer Limits.

She is a winner of the Villager Award for her performance in "A Difficult Borning". She is co-founder with the late Robert Elston of the American Renaissance Theater Company. 'Sun Flower' debuted in Mrs. Stanton's birthplace, Johnstown NY, has played in the Capitol Rotunda, the Senate Building, at Governor Pataki's Summit for Young Women, at the Washington Arena's Old Vat Theatre, in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse, the Homegrown and Houseman Theatres, at the Celebration of Women's Rights in Seneca Falls, and at the invitation of the White House for the Millennium Celebration in Washington, DC.

She has performed as Elizabeth Cady Stanton on CNN, CSPAN, CNBC, NYI, and NPR She has appeared in 'Sun Flower' from Palm Springs to Alabama. She has even played Carnegie Hall (in West Virginia) and Vegas!





Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 and married a like mind, the abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton, in 1841. While raising seven children, she was a fledgling journalist for Amelia Bloomer's 'The Lily' under the pseudonym "Sun Flower" and a full-fledged journalist under her own name for Horace Greeley's 'New York Tribune'. While at the international abolitionist convention in London in 1841, Elizabeth was stunned that her fellow abolitionists refused to allow women to speak, especially the most admired Lucretia Mott. There the two women formed a friendship which led to Elizabeth's authoring and delivering The Declaration of (Women's) Sentiments', at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Elizabeth, her Cousin Libby Smith, and Amelia Bloomer united in popularizing women's trousers, later called Bloomers. A mentor to Susan B. Anthony, the women formed a lasting partnership for the recognition of women's rights, the consequence of which resonates into the twentieth century. She died in 1902 never having achieved her dream of the vote for women. The nineteenth amendment granting women their inalienable right to vote was finally ratified in 1920 by one crucial vote. A young Senator from Tennessee who was planning to vote otherwise received a note from his mother which said, "Son, do the right thing."

PHILIP ROSE (Ms. Perry's recently deceased producer) made his Broadway producing debut with Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier which won the Drama Critics Award. He also produced the film. He has been involved as director, producer and/or author of many Broadway plays including The Owl and the Pussycat , Broadway's first venture into non-traditional casting, Purlie Victorious, and Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? with Al Pacino. Among his musical productions are Purlie for which he received three Tony's (director, producer, and co-author) and Shenandoah starring John Cullum which received six Nominations and two Tony Awards. He directed the TV production of Purlie, receiving the ACE and Silver Awards from the International Film and TV Festival of New York. Mr. Rose was the Executive Producer of the Disney film, The Cemetery Club starring Ellen Burstyn and the independent film starring F. Murray Abraham and Eric Roberts, By the Sword.

Mr. Rose’s excellent book “You Can’t Do That on Broadway” is available in stores and on line and also featured in libraries and schools in Theatre and African American Studies departments, a book memorable for his unflagging dedication to the causes he has always believed in.

Philip, my dear friend and producer died Tuesday, May 31^st 2011 and left a big hole in my heart and in the hearts of so many. He was a gentle man and a strong social voice in the arts. Elizabeth Perry

 Click Link for Philip Rose's Playbill Obituary: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/151416-Philip-Rose-Daredevil-Broadway-Producer-Who-Advanced-Liberal-Causes-Dies-at-89

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