Writer/Director

Kristen La Follette is an oral historian recently trained at Columbia University. While a student there she co-produced Hydraulic Fracturing: An Oral History. An audio piece that features testimonies related to the effects of fracking in Pennsylvania and New York State. 

She developed a deep love for oral history in the creation and performance of monologues for Braiding Voices: The Stories of Peacemakers while an undergraduate at California State University at Monterey Bay. For the project she interviewed a Hurricane Katrina Red Cross volunteer and an international drug policy reform advocate. Her film, Fighting for my History served to further her involvement in oral history, research and multimedia work. 

Kristen is immensely proud to employ theater as a way to transmit the lives and experiences of Catholic Nuns. She embarked on her project inspired by her cousin Maria Pozzobon, a Franciscan sister now in her mid-eighties who moved to America from Italy at sixteen years old. The interviews she collected and ensuing performance aim to record and retell the stories of this increasingly scarce, yet spirited and dynamic group of women.