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First-person portrayals

Our most popular portrayals are presented as a speaker or performer at an event, but these characters are also available to interact one-on-one with a crowd or small group.

Speaker-only options range from 30-45 minutes, with the full Laura Clay one-woman show running up to one hour.

Contact us for more character options, including characters and entertainers from our WWII and 1940s Christmas era. Visit our one-woman show page for full performance options.

Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale

Meet one of the 19th Century’s favorite sweethearts: Jenny Lind. Born of a school teacher in 1820, she rose to become one of the most famous performers of the 19h Century. Her 1850-1851 tour of the United States with P.T. Barnum resulted in wild support that created one of the most popular superstars of modern times. These 19th Century Americans hung her picture in their living rooms and memorialized her name in countless daily items, from city streets to bed frames, tea kettles to sausages, securing Jenny’s place as one of the most loved performers of all time.

Hear Jenny’s story in her own words, complete with original songs, Swedish accent, and the true love story.

Lottie Moon: The Christmas Offering

Discover the story behind the world-impacting Southern Baptist Christmas Offering named after this spitfire prankster from Virginia. Lottie Moon was the most educated woman in the South at the time of the Civil War and an unlikely candidate for a life of adventure in the remote countryside of China. Her world-wide adventures, however, launched after her time in Danville, Kentucky, changed the face of world missions and left behind a far-reaching legacy. (Speaker options from 10-35 minutes, with optional Q&A.)

Laura Clay, the South’s leading suffragist

Experience the life Laura Clay, the South's most famous women's rights activist during the women’s suffrage movement, as she tells the story of the struggle for women’s rights in the words of one of the movement’s most tenacious and pivotal workers.

Introduced by the character of Emeline Pankurst, Britain's leading suffragist (you’ll hear her mentioned in “Sister Suffragette,” of Mary Poppins fame), the one-woman version of this portrayal contrasts the British and southern American suffrage movements, explores the ideas of true justice and equal rights for women, and details the fight for women’s rights through eyes of Laura Clay.

Based on the personal papers, letters, and journals of the Clay family.