Jeff Hagedorn Papers
Michael C. Oliveira
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
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Jeff Hagedorn Papers
Collection number: Coll2008-006
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
Los Angeles,
California
- Processed by:
- Michael C. Oliveira
- Date Completed:
- April 3, 2008
- Encoded by:
- Michael C. Oliveira
© 2008 ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. All rights reserved.
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant
from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Jeff Hagedorn papers
Dates: 1979-1995
Collection number: Coll2008-006
Creator:
Hagedorn, Jeff,
1957-1995
Collection Size: 2 records boxes, 1 oversize box,
1 shoebox. 3.8 linear feet.
Repository:
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90007
Abstract: Scripts, journals, correspondence, flyers,
programs, press releases, reviews, research materials, photographic negatives,
publicity stills, and other materials, 1979 to 1995, relating to playwright
Jeff Hagedorn, his production company, SYZYGY, and his internationally produced
theatrical works and video productions.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access
restrictions.
Publication Rights
Researchers wishing to publish materials must obtain permission in
writing from ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives as the physical owner.
Researchers must also obtain clearance from the holder(s) of any copyrights in
the materials. Note that ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives can grant
copyright clearance only for those materials for which we hold the copyright.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright clearance for
all other materials directly from the copyright holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Box #, folder #, Jeff Hagedorn Papers, Coll2008-006, ONE National Gay
and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California.
Acquisition Information
Collection created from materials from box 104-54; materials found in
the Jeff Hagedorn,
One, and SYZYGY subject files; the Jeff
Hagedorn file in the Performing Arts Collection (Coll2007-016), and the Gay and
Lesbian Drama Scripts Collection (Coll2008-003).
Processing Information
Collection processed from box 104-54; materials found in the Jeff
Hagedorn,
One, and SYZYGY subject files; the Jeff
Hagedorn file in the Performing Arts Collection (Coll2007-016), and the Gay and
Lesbian Drama Scripts Collection (Coll2008-003), by Michael C. Oliveira, April
3, 2008.
Processing this collection has been funded
by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission.
Biography
Jeff Hagedorn was born in Milwaukee, and attended Ripon College and the
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. He also took courses at Marquette,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, and United States International University,
San Diego. While he initially focused on directing, he soon realized his
calling as a playwright. After relocating to Chicago, he became a founding
member and resident playwright for the Lionheart Gay Theatre. In 1983, his
play,
One, became the first publicly produced
theatrical work concerning AIDS. Hagedorn provided the play to AIDS
organizations across the country as a fundraiser, and in the early years of the
crisis benefit performances raised more than $50,000. He also formed a
production company, SYZYGY, that went on to revive Chicago's pub theater
movement with quick witted plays such as
The Layman's Guide to Safe Sex. Hagedorn
continued to craft seminal AIDS plays as the crisis progressed, from the
desperate search for medication in
Crusaders, to the challenges of testing in
High Risk Romance, and "safe sex" in
Should Have Been A Love Play. SYZYGY actors
in Chicago performed a marathon of 11 his theatrical pieces in 12 days in
1988.
In a search for greater opportunities, Hagedorn moved to Los Angeles,
continuing his community theater work through Celebration Theatre and his
production company, SYZYGY. Hagedorn’s theatrical productions were performed in
over 32 cities in the United States, and internationally in Edinburgh,
Manchester, and Berlin; in addition, he produced and distributed gay themed
videos for a gay audience, including
Jerker and
Dream Man.
Hagedorn dedicated the last years of his life to preservation of gay and
lesbian history, organizing the subject files and updating the database of the
International Gay and Lesbian Archives, now ONE National Gay & Lesbian
Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Hagedorn collection consists of three series: (1) Writings, (2)
Personal papers, and (3) SYZYGY records. The first series contains scripts,
flyers, programs, publicity stills, and reviews, and other materials relating
to Hagedorn's stage and video productions of theatrical works. The second
series contains his resume, biographical information, correspondence, journals,
and professional portfolio. The third series consists primarily of the
correspondence of Hagedorn's production company, SYZYGY.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hagedorn, Jeff, 1957-1995
Jacobson, Tom
Kuntze, Tilly S., 1952-
McGregor, Proctor Keith,
1949-
Thomas, Colin, 1952-
Tradup, Troy, 1962-
Gay dramatists
Gay theater
Homosexuality and theater
Homosexuality in the theater
Series 1:
Writings
circa
1981-1994
Physical Description: 2.5 linear feet.
Series Scope and Content
This series contains scripts, flyers, programs, publicity stills,
and reviews, and other materials relating to hagedorn's stage and video
productions of theatrical works.
Box 1 : 1 ; 2 : 27
Annesplay
1981-1988
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2 : 27
Photographs, publicity stills
1988
Box 1 : 3 ; 2 : 28 ; 3 : 1 (Oversizse); 3
: 10 (Oversize)
Clowns in the Kitchen
1984-1993
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 2 : 28
Photographs, publicity stills
1988-1992
Box 1 : 4 ; 2 : 29 ; 3 : 2 ; 3 : 11
(Oversize)
Crusaders
1987-1993
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 2 : 29
Photographs of Hagedorn in Berlin
1993
Box 1 : 5 ; 3 : 12 (Oversize)
Face to Face on AIDS
1987-1988
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 1 : 5
Documents and scripts
1987-1988
Box 1 : 6-7 ; 2 : 30 ; 3 : 3 (Oversize);
3 : 13 (Oversize)
High Risk Romance
1986-1987
Physical Description: 5 folders.
Box 1 : 6-7
Documents and scripts
1986-1987
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2 : 30
Photographs, publicity stills
1986
Box 1 : 8
How I Learned to Turn the Beat Around, Kiss
a Man with a Moustache and Run a Four Minute Mile in Platform Shoes
,
script
1992
Box 1 : 9
Hymen, incomplete script
drafts
circa 1985
Box 1 : 10 ; 2 : 31 ; 3 : 4
(Oversize)
I Cover the Lockerroom
1988
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 1 : 10
Documents and script
1988
Box 2 : 31
Photographs, publicity stills
1988
Box 1 : 11 ; 2 : 32 ; 3 : 14
(Oversize)
In a Room with a Brass
Bed
1984
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 2 : 32
Photographs, publicity stills
1984
Box 3 : 14 (Oversize)
Poster and clippings
1984
Box 1 : 12
Laughing Out Loud,
correspondence
1985
Box 1 : 13 ; 2 : 33 ; 3 : 5 (Oversize); 3
: 15 (Oversize)
The Layman's Guide to Safe
Sex
1987-1989
Physical Description: 4 folders.
Box 1 : 13
Documents and script
1987-1989
Box 2 : 33
Photographs, publicity stills
1987
Box 3 : 5 (Oversize)
Newspaper clippings
1987-1989
Box 1 : 14-15 ; 2 : 34 ; 3 : 6
(Oversize); 3 : 16 (Oversize)
One
1983-1990
Physical Description: 5 folders.
Box 1 : 14-15
Documents and script
1983-1990
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2 : 34
Photographs, publicity stills
1983
Box 3 : 6 (Oversize)
Newspaper clippings
1983-1986
Box 1 : 16
One at Ten, documents
1993-1994
Box 1 : 17
Other Women, Other Men,
script
1988
Box 2 : 35
Poems to an Ex-Lover, publicity
stills
1983
Box 1 : 18 ; 2 : 36 ; 3 : 7
(Oversize)
Rhyme or Treason
1987
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 2 : 36
Photographs, publicity stills
1987
Box 1 : 19-20
Should Have Been a Love Play, draft
manuscript, documents, scripts
1984
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 1 : 21 ; 2 : 37
Should Have Been a Love Song
1990-1993
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2 : 37
Photographs, publicity stills
1990
Box 1 : 22 ; 2 : 38 ; 3 : 17
(Oversize)
Some of Us Just Aren't that
Weird
1986-1991
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 2 : 38
Photographs, publicity stills
1987
Box 1 : 23
Someone Just Like You, promotional
postcard
1990-1992
Box 1 : 24
Songs of Faith, documents and
script
1988-1990
Box 1 : 25
Sweet Sorrows, reviews
1985
Box 1 : 26
Waiting for the Blue Haired Child,
script
circa 1985
Box 1 : 27
Wild Child and the Man,
script
1989-1992
Box 1 : 28
Women in Power, script
1980
Box 1 : 29-31
Unidentified
circa 1985-circa
1990
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 1 : 29-30
Manuscript drafts
circa 1985
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Series 2:
Personal papers
circa 1975-circa
1989
Physical Description: 0.9 linear foot.
Series Scope and Content
The series contains Hagedorn's writing resume, biographical
information, correspondence, a professional portfolio, personal journals, and a
trophy from
Gay Chicago Magazine. The biographical
information consists of printed interviews and an obituary. The correspondence
files include Hagedorn's personal correspondence, his letters to the editor,
interoffice memos from his employer regarding his sick time, faxes to his
doctor, and party invitation created from magazine and newspaper clippings.
Box 1 : 32-33
Writing resume, newspaper clippings
1980-1989
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 1 : 34 ; 3 : 8 (Oversize) ; 3 : 19
(Oversize)
Biographical
1984-1995
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 1 : 34
Interviews, clippings, obituary
1987-1995
Box 3 : 8 (Oversize)
Newspaper clippings
1984-1988
Box 1 : 35-38 ; 3 : 18 (Oversize)
Correspondence
1986-1995
Physical Description: 5 folders.
Box 1 : 35-36
General correspondence
1987-1995
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 1 : 37-38 ; 3 : 18
(Oversize)
Party invitations (collages)
1986-1988
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Box 2 :
39
Photographs (personal)
circa
1975-1990
Box 2 : 2
Professional portfolio
circa 1987
Box 2 : 3-18
Journals
circa 1979-circa
1989
Physical Description: 16 journals.
Box 2 : 3
Mead, October 8
circa 1979
Box 2 : 13
Cambridge notepad
circa 1988
Box 2 : 15
Cambridge steno
circa 1989
Box 4
Trophy from
Gay Chicago Magazine
1987
Series 3:
SYZYGY records
circa
1987-1993
Physical Description: 0.5 linear foot.
Series Scope and Content
His production company records consist of clippings and programs
from a marathon performance of 15 of his theatrical works, correspondence,
order slips for videos, and submissions of other's scripts for review in the
SYZYGY newsletter.
Marathon of Hagedorn's theatrical works
1988
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2 : 19
Clippings and documents
1988
Box 2 : 40
Headshots and actors' resumes
1990
Box 2 :
41-42
Publicity stills
circa
1990-1991
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2 : 42
Unknown performances
circa 1990
Box 2 : 21
Video tape order forms for
Should Have Been a Love Play,
Jerker,
Dream Man
1991-1992
Script submissions
1988-1993
Physical Description: 5 folders.
Box 2 : 22
Jacobson, Tom,
Son of Othello
1993
Box 2 : 23
Kuntze, Till S.,
I Can't See the Sky
1988
Box 2 : 24
McGregor, Proctor Keith,
Sand Dollar Cove
1988
Box 2 : 25
Thomas, Colin,
Flesh and Blood
1991-1992
Box 2 : 26
Tradup, Troy,
The Time at the End of This
Time
1993
