The Root Beer Lady
Streaming Monday, May 3 - Sunday, May 9, 2021
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A Reading of a new play
Written and Performed by Kim Schultz
Directed by Laurie Flanigan Hegge
The story of the indomitable Dorothy Molter, the last legal non-indigenous resident of the Boundary Waters, presented by playwright and performer Kim Schultz. Her solo performance reflects on the beauty and hardships of Molter’s solitary yet satisfying life and pushes back against the premise that her time in the North Woods made her the “Loneliest Woman in America,” as the Saturday Evening Post claimed in 1952. Funny. Smart. Passionate.
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- Running time: 80 minutes
- Watch Spilling the HT: The Root Beer Lady with playwright Kim Schultz
To learn more about Dorothy Molter:
- Who was she? The Root Beer Lady
- Her Root Beer
- Dorothy Molter, the Nurse
- Knife Lake Dorothy
- Minnesota's 'Root Beer Lady' lived alone in a million-acre wilderness (atlasobscura.com, Sept 16, 2020)
- Dorothy Molter, The Root Beer Lady of Minnesota (KARE-11, 1/12/21)
Dorothy Molter Museum
The Dorothy Molter Museum preseves and interprets Northwoods wilderness heritage through learning opportunities inspired by Dorothy Molter, the last non-indigenous resident of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Click here to learn more.
Cast
Kim Schultz* - Dorothy Molter
Artistic Team
Playwright - Kim Schultz
Director - Laurie Flanigan Hegge
Video Editor - Kathy Maxwell
Katharine Horowitz - Sound Designer
Stage Manager - Wayne Hendricks*
* denotes a Member of Actors' Equity Association
About Kim Schultz
Originally from Minneapolis, Kim Schultz is a Chicago-based actor, writer, solo show artist and storyteller. She has worked at many national theatres as an actor and writer, including History Theatre long, long ago. In Chicago, Kim has worked at The Goodman Theatre, Lookinglass Theatre and Silk Road Rising. This is Kim’s third solo show. In 2007, after her dad died and a con-man conned her, she wove the stories into a play called “The F Trip”. And in 2009, she was commissioned to travel to the Middle East as an artist/activist to meet with Iraqi refugees and write a play inspired by the trip. Out of that came the solo show "No Place Called Home" which she performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as part of World Refugee Day and off Broadway in NYC in 2010, as well as a 4-year national tour that followed. Kim also authored the memoir, “Three Days in Damascus” (Palewell Press, 2016) about her experience in the Middle East. In addition, Kim works in television and film, speaks on refugee issues, tours an interreligious storytelling show called “Sisters of Story,” is a corporate improvisation trainer and although she has barely been camping, has found a kinship with this woman who lived her life alone in the North Woods. To learn more, click here.