MORE WOMEN. MORE THEATER. ALL THE TIME.
The Women in Theater Festival seeks to broaden the opportunities for women in the entertainment industry by producing new work by women with more than 50% female representation of all artists involved.
WIT goes #BEYONDPARITY
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Join us for the New York premieres of:
Dorothy's Dictionary
by EM Lewis
Co-Directed by Project Y Co-Artistic Directors
Andrew W. Smith and Michole Biancosino
Featuring Dana Jacks and Gerardo Navarro
Sparks fly when Zan, an angry high school student, is forced to work off his community service assignment reading to Dorothy, an ailing librarian. But each of them might just have what the other lacks… if they can only find the words. Book by book, they begin to form an unexpected friendship… just when they need it most.
PRESS:
"DOROTHY’S DICTIONARY is a reminder of the beauty of shared stories and the surprising places we find connection." - BroadwayWorld
"Playwright E.M. Lewis has created a gentle, witty, and moving example of a two-character play."
-DC Theater Arts
POWERSUITS, a dance/theatre comedy
A hilarious, rollicking night that centers joy and laughter in this groundbreaking feminist art
Created and performed by Lida Winfield and Michole Biancosino
Two women enter the space looking powerful. Don't worry. They're here to take care of you.
This wild duet critiques normative gender roles and performances with exaggerated costumes, movements and gestures, depicting stereotypes of authority and beauty as absurd. In tandem, the piece calls out the alienation that comes from capitalist grind culture.
"Winfield and Biancosino are two powerhouse feminist artists"-Catherin Wright, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Middlebury College
THE LINEUP CONTINUES…
16 days and nights of NY Premieres, workshop productions, readings, devised work, and new plays by women writers and lead creators.
DAVID AND KATIE GET RE-MARRIED
Original Musical Production
By David Carl & Katie Hartman
Directed by Michole Biancosino
Music direction by Jody Shelton
EDINBURGH FRINGE WARMUP RUN!
Check out this critically acclaimed show before it heads across the pond to play at Underbelly in August.
THE ADVENTURES OF PUSSY JONES
A New Devised Workshop Production
Director/Writer: Gab Cody
The Adventures of Pussy Jones is a “DaDa cabaret” and Artificial Intelligence* hallucination that utilizes ensemble-based physical theater practices in service of a comedy centered around the theme: “The Politics of Femininity.”
AT THE LIBERTY INN
A New Play Reading
By Emily Bice
Directed by Cameron King
(on a double bill with Dorothy's Dictionary)
SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE
A New Play Reading
By Sally Seitz
Finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Festival.
Winner of the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
(on a double will with Dorothy’s Dictionary)
HEARTBEAT OPHELIA
A New Play Reading
By D.L. Siegel
Directed by Rachel Dart
(on a double will with Dorothy’s Dictionary)
CANDY GIRLS
A New Play Reading
By Jeana Scotti
Directed by Ashley Bufkin
and a special event:
GRAHAM CRACKERS AND OATMEAL
Memorial Production of a Play
By Christopher Ulloth
In memory of our dear friend, playwright, producer, and long-time Project Y company member, we are featuring pop-up productions of this short play, originally produced by Project Y Theatre in collaboration with Tiny Barn.
We will be raising funds for the Christopher Ulloth Memorial Playwright Fund, an annual prize for a woman or non-binary playwright.
The Women in Theatre Festival seeks to broaden the opportunities for women in the entertainment industry by producing new work by women with more than 50% representation of all artists involved. Our festival is a model of going beyond parity, as we commission and produce new works by women+ writers, devisers, and creators, develop an audience interested in feminist theatre, and foster opportunities that center interdisciplinary practices and experimentation. More Women. More Theatre. All the Time.
For more information, click here to view the official WIT website.
