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Directed by Bergen professor Leigh Jonaitis,Ph.D.,D.W.Gregory’s “Radium Girls”spotlights the true story of female laborers who used radioactive paint to color watch dials in a 1920s U.S.radium plant. Students (from left) Yurianna Botero,Paloma Vizcaino,and Nia Coleman.

‘Radium Girls’ Chronicles 1920s Labor Conditions

PARAMUS

Bergen Community College presents Bergenstages theatre troupeʼs production of D.W. Gregoryʼs “Radium Girls” this March and April in the Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre at the Collegeʼs main campus in Paramus (400 Paramus Road).

Directed by Bergen Professor Leigh Jonaitis, Ph.D., D.W Gregoryʼs “Radium Girls” spotlights the true story of female laborers who used radioactive paint to color watch dials in a 1920s U.S. radium plant. Instructed to finely point their brushes by molding the bristles with their mouths while painting, the women begin to notice health issues, even

See Radium on page 18