Based off her complete love for the work I had done on her first project SNOW ORCHID, Valentina Fratti again approached us to develop key art for her new Miranda Theatre Company production of THEY PROMISED HER THE MOON. The play tells the story of Jerrie Cobb, the “almost-first” female astronaut. Jerrie Cobb was one of the famed “Mercury 13” group of women who were privately given some of the same screening tests and training as the male astronauts in the NASA space program that eventually put human beings in space and on the Moon. According to production notes, Cobb “devoted her life to the sky, only to realize that family, colleagues, and contemporaries were too earthbound to see beyond the gender gap and let her soar. In 1959, after undergoing rigorous physical and psychological testing, Cobb surpassed scores of many of the famous Mercury 7 astronauts. Yet it was John Glenn, who was chosen to travel into space first. Laurel Ollstein tells the story of a great American woman who reached for the moon but hit the glass ceiling instead.” The art was designed to illustrate Jerrie Cobb's story in a single frame - how she yearned from the seat of her crop duster to reach for the stars, and the very moon herself.
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