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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Jeannie Barroga papers
Creator:
Barroga, Jeannie
Identifier/Call Number: M2025
Identifier/Call Number: 19430
Physical Description:
45 Linear Feet
(85 boxes, two oversize folders)
Physical Description:
23.4 gigabyte(s)
reformatted born-digital material
Date (inclusive): circa 1966-2010
Abstract: Jeannie Barroga (b.1949) is a playwright, director, actor and teacher. Her papers contain scripts in multiple drafts, production
binders, media, photographs, research & business files, and other material.
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Notebooks in Boxes 79-84
are restricted for use until June 2025. Audiovisual & born-digital materials are not available in original format, and must
be reformatted to a digital use copy. Selected born-digital materials relating to Barroga's play "Buffalo'ed" have been reformatted
and may be accessed in the Special Collections Reading Room.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase; 2015. Accessions 2015-057 and 2016-119.
Jeannie Barroga (b. 1949) is a playwright, teacher, director and video producer. Author of
Buffalo'ed,
Walls,
Banyan, and
Aurora, she has written 62 plays and her work has been published, anthologized, and produced nationally and internationally.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeannie Barroga headed west to northern California after college where her career as a playwright
took shape. Barroga often draws upon her Filipino background in her writings, which have influenced the American theater landscape.
She is also the most produced Filipina-American playwright, having plays performed across the globe. In California, Barroga
has worked as a playwright, producer, director, dramaturge and literary manager at both the Oakland Ensemble Theater and Palo
Alto's TheatreWorks, as well as artistic director at both the Asian American Theater Company and Teatro ng Tanan, both in
San Francisco.
Barroga has received numerous awards over the thirty-five years of playwriting, including the Wallace Alexander Gerbode and
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Playwright Collaboration Award with Kularts Artistic Director, Alleluia Panis for Buffalo'ed
at San Jose Stage Company; the National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence for Walls at the Asian American
Theater Company; Best Original Production in Solano at Mira Theatre Vallejo; and the East Bay Fund for Artists for Mattie
Mae through the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
She has had theatre presentations at the Pan Asian Theater New York; the Mark Taper Forum and East West Players, Los Angeles;
Kumu Kahua Theater, Honolulu; Northwest Asian American Theater, Seattle; and institutions such as the University of California
Berkeley; New World Theater University of Massachusetts-Amherst; GenSeng SUNY; Baltimore College, and others.
Jeannie Barroga's work has been included in the anthologies
Unbroken Thread and in
Asian American Women in Drama. For more information on Barroga's current work, see her personal website at http://www.jeanniebarroga.com.
--adapted from article by curators Rebecca Wingfield & Benjamin Stone
[identification of item], Jeannie Barroga papers (M2025). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Barroga's papers consist primarily of multiple drafts of her plays, production binders, notes and journals, administrative
files (involving funding, venues, auditions, and other matters), audiovisual material, publicity such as posters and programs,
photographs, personal writing and ephemera, and research files.
Although an attempt has been made to separate the collection into works written by Barroga and those that were not, these
are not hard and fast divisions, as she was involved with many productions as director, actor and consultant, while some scripts
(such as those for
Chinatown or
Twin Peaks) were probably used in teaching or rehearsing. The Media series (Series 7) contains audiovisual documentation of all performances
and productions in the collection, regardless of Barroga's involvement, although she was involved in most.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Mallory Somera assisted Barroga in organizing her papers prior to their arrival at Stanford.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Filipino Americans
Drama -- 20th century
Asian American women authors
Filipino American women authors
Filipino American theater
Drama -- Study and teaching.
Drama -- 21st century
Race relations in literature
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Drama