Description: Island Women Speak is a unique, multigenerational women's storytelling event in Stonington, Maine, produced and directed by Debbie Weil.
Island Women Speak is the popular multigenerational women’s storytelling event created and directed by Debbie Weil. The event has been staged five times at the Opera House in Stonington, ME.
Our deepest thanks to Opera House Arts for hosting IWS.
This unique event was inspired by The Moth and was premiered by Debbie at the Stonington Opera House on a cold winter’s night in January 2018. Following the five-minute story rule of The Moth, and under Debbie’s direction, eight local women from Deer Isle each performed a personal story that she had written and rehearsed. The women ranged in age from 21 to 91 and each decade was represented.