ABOUT
THE AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER
MARYANN BRESCHARD
MARYANN
BRESCHARD is a writer, producer and director. She
is best known for her feature documentary, Running in High Heels,
which followed the story of a political aspirant akin to Sarah Palin -
well before Sarah
Palin exploded onto the
national stage.
The film explores the behaviors and criterias women use in
both
supporting and criticizing
other women and how
those affect
their
current political and economic state. It argues that women
do
not need to rise up but to
instead wake up and free themselves from
stereotypes -- but not their femininity! Running
in High Heels premiered
in 2006
and continues to play on
college campuses across the country.
Her
book, American
Catfight: Political Wisdom for Women &
Other Thoughts Towards Feminine Statecraft for the 21st Century,
continues
the discussion of women's true will to independence, equality and power
by provoking
with humor habitual stances and conditioned thinking.
As
with Running
in High Heels,
it charms women to change their thinking and push
useless
paradigms aside by turning widely-held presumptions upside down.
Maryann was
born
in the harbor town of Port Jefferson, NY. Her fifth
great-grandfather was Louis-Francois, the Count of Achun, for
whom the
French Revolution did not work out so well. Upon
arriving
in America afterwards, the newly untitled Breschards became half of
the Breschard & Pepin Circus which is widely believed
to be
the first circus in the United States. In
1806, the
Breschard family founded the oldest theatre in America, the Walnut Street
Theatre,
which still operates today. During the venue's
early era,
the now-famous Barrymores were stagehands in the employ of the
Breschards...but as with the Revolution, things for the family went
awry... Maryann, untitled and happy to have her head, currently resides
in New
York City.
maryannbreschard.com
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