ROSE WEAVER
Award-Winning Actress • Singer • Playwright
ROSE WEAVER
Award-Winning Actress • Singer • Playwright
UPCOMING EVENTS
ROSE IN THE NEWS
Menopause Mama
Rose Weaver is one of the women who have experienced what the effects of menopause.
"I was having issues already with memory, leaving my keys in weird places," said Weaver.
Her symptoms came as an unexplainable surprise.
"I was 48 years old and I had just gotten into Brown University to study for my Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing."
So, in 2000, she did extensive research and learned about menopause, at a time when it was not commonly discussed.
Eventually her knowledge took the form of what has been described as a "witty, sassy, inspiring," one-woman show.
"That's how 'Menopause Mama' started. I interviewed tons of women here in Rhode Island and in Connecticut to find out what they were going through," said Weaver. "That allowed me to write authentically about going through the changes of life."
Now, more than two decades later, a law has been put in place.
"My reaction to the article was, it's about time, and it's important, and I'm so glad that Rhode Island is doing it," said Weaver.
ROSE WEAVER is an American actress, singer, and playwright. The oldest of six children born to a sharecropping family in Georgia, Rose began her acting career at the Tony award-winning Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, where she has performed for over 50 years.
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Recent film & TV work includes roles in the feature films About Fate opposite Emma Roberts, A Snow White Christmas, The Last Black Dinosaur, Tina, and The 6th Amendment, and the NBC pilot Suspicion. NBC submitted her for Emmy consideration for her Guest Star role on In the Heat of the Night opposite the late Carroll O'Connor. Other past work includes The Accused, opposite Jodie Foster, Poetic Justice opposite the late Tupac Shakur, Detroit opposite John Boyega, as Judge Kersey in L.A. Law, Tales from the Crypt, Not in My Family, Lady in White, and Mother Washington in Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Rose Weaver's body of work has earned her numerous awards, including three Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees, a Lucille Lortel Playwriting Award, a Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, RI International Film Festival Producer's Circle Award, RI Woman of the Year, RI Foundation Fellowships & New Works Awards, RI Achievement in the Arts, YWCA Woman of the Year Award in Arts, The RI Historical Society History Maker Award, and induction into the RI Heritage Harbor Hall Of Fame.
