Laura Cahill’s study of these women and their attempts to see the world clearly was highly lauded and turned into an HBO movie staring Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Ben Gazarra.

San Diego actresses Jessica John and Lauren Wilson (formerly Zimmerman) have teamed up again to continue the theatrical tradition they began over nine years ago.  Backyard Productions is dedicated to producing critically-acclaimed theatrical works by some of the best playwrights of our generation, and is particularly driven to secure the San Diego premieres of the most current theatrical works that offer a new exciting voice to the stage and speak of the life in which we currently reside.  Backyard has been honored to secure the San Diego Premieres of several of these works – including, Patrick Marber’s Closer, Shelagh Stephenson’s An Experiment with an Air Pump, Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day and now, Laura Cahill’s Hysterical Blindness.