This former orphanage and social service agency wanted to document their 100-year history, generate funding, and raise awareness of their important agency.

In addition to interviewing employees and clients at the agency, we combed through the Foundling Hospital’s dusty archives and found a treasure trove of letters, left by Victorian women at the agency’s doorstep, explaining why they had to leave their newborn infants with them. These heartbreaking letters told the story of a New York filled with disease, despair, social injustice, and few options for poor women, had been never seen by the public. We used these letters as the basis of a live, one-person storytelling performance.
Performances were given at key venues throughout the state including festivals, schools, and private functions at the New York Life building and the Museum of the City of New York. The shows were very well received and resulted in new and renewed support by corporate sponsors and an article the New York Times Magazine, gaining the client national attention.

Read the New York Time Magazine article written by our own Lisa Lipkin

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