Eleanor for President

Drama / 18+ m 9+ f ensemble (some gender flexibility and doubling possible)A woman as Chief Executive? The 2008 presidential campaign proved it possible yet it just might have happened more than half a century earlier. Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady from 1933 to 1945 might have run for president after the death of her husband Franklin. Many thought about it some talked about it a few actually suggested it. That Eleanor Roosevelt did not seek public office was of her own choosing and chiefly her own priorities as well as a sense that the time was not yet right. Act I of Eleanor for President briefly scans her career to a point where she might have run. Act II fictionalizes the fork in the road not takes. The net result is a unique sometimes witty and always insightful look at Eleanor Roosevelt and the political process.