Bay Area Theater

Playwright Interview: Terry Baum,”Hick: A Love Story” 2014

Playwright Terry Baum, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in December 2014, just prior to her solo show, HICK: A Love Story, The Romance of Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, co writtten by Pat Bond, played at the Berkeley City Club the following month.

Since those performances, the play has been performed around the country, most recently at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in September 2019. where it was selected to have a run at an off-Broadway theatre.

Terry Baum is the author of several other plays, and was the founder of Lilith, a San Francisco women’s theatre collective, in 1974. She ran against Nancy Pelosi for Congress in 2004 as a write-in candidate, and ran for Mayor of San Francisco as a Green Party candidate in 2011.