City of Ladies
She was asked to review a book. She started a war.
Written by Lorraine Liscio
Six hundred years ago, Christine de Pizan fought to give women a place in history. The fight is not over.
Based on a true story. Paris 1418, three years after France’s defeat at Agincourt. Writer Christine de Pizan has already achieved notoriety in France and elsewhere in Europe. Now with her most important book, The Book of the City of Ladies, she faces two obstacles: the Chancellor of the Sorbonne and the Burgundy court, not to mention another war.
“They will read this book. It will change women’s lives. It will change everyone’s life.” - Christine de Pizan
2026 Production
September 5–13, 2026
Part of the Dream Up Festival • Theater for the New City, 155 1st Avenue, New York
Directed by Myriam Cyr
CAST
Christine de Pizan: Angela Pierce
Burgundy, Royal Duke of France: Garreth Hendricks
Gerson: Greg Stuhr
Anastasia: Salma Qarnain
Montreuil: Jason Pintar
Marie: Molly Stern
Sarto / Soldier: Orson Ansari-Cox
*Member of Actor’s Equity
+Member of SAG-AFTRA
2016 World Premiere: Equity Staged Reading
November 7, 2016
Part of the That’s What She Said: A Feminine Perspective series • Central Square Theater, Cambridge, MA
Produced by Lee Mikeska Gardner and Patricia Peterson Jamison
Directed by Myriam Cyr
Music by Stephen Bates, lute, and Douglas Freundlich, recorder
A collaboration between The Nora Theatre Company and the creative team of Punctuate4 Productions for Black Box Lab Stage284.
Presented in collaboration with the Boston Public Library’s extensive exhibit of medieval manuscripts.
CAST
Christine de Pizan: Debra Wise*+(AEA)
Royal Duke of France: J.T. Turner*+(AEA)
Sister Marie, Daughter: Sarah Oakes Muirhead*+(AEA)
Gerson: Barlow Adamson*+(AEA)
Anastasia: Linda Goetz
Montreuil: Phil Thompson
Sarto: John Manning
Italian Emissary: Giulio Jesse Garlick*(AEA)
Gigot: Nate Punches
Didi, Young
Soldier: Jay Pension
Nun: Lindsay Pennington
Nun: Lisa Nguyen
Stage Directions Reading: Eve Passeltiner*+(AEA)(SAG-AFTRA)
*Member of Actor’s Equity
+Member of SAG-AFTRA
