Talking Studio [Episode 6] How a play is born

Talking Studio (Ohio University)

When MFA playwright student Skye Robinson Hillis learned about "The Martha Mitchell Effect," listed in the DSM IV and named after the wife of John Mitchell, President Nixon's confidante, a play began to take root. This episode of Talking Studio takes us on a journey of how aspiring playwrights like Robinson Hillis take a seemingly insignificant fact from history and creates a play that disrupts the historic status quo.