Works By Women Qualifying Shows in Festivals
The shows we feature on this page are part of NYC theatre festivals and have creative teams
(writers, directors, designers) of at least 50% women*.
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(writers, directors, designers) of at least 50% women*.
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DREAM UP FESTIVAL
August 30 - September 20, 2015 |
Ennui: An English Comedy with a French Title for an American Audience
written & directed by Henrietta Steventon
Theatre For A New City
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
August 30 - September 6, 2015
Set/Costume Design: Maria Deiz
A director faces ex-lovers, Method actors, a psychic assistant, horrible British accents and even fedora-phobia as she attempts to stage a 1920s British Farce in, ‘Ennui: An English Comedy with a French title for an American audience’. Roger and his fiancée Lauren are cast in the two leading roles. Lauren, however, is unaware that her husband-to-be and the director, Lucretia, were an item in the past and still have unresolved feelings for one another. Meanwhile, the two devious understudies, Edwin and Ethel, are plotting ways to sabotage the leading actors, Lucretia’s dim-witted assistant, Mary, is causing chaos with her poorly-timed comments and rejected actor Craig is protesting outside the theatre.
Tickets - $15
written & directed by Henrietta Steventon
Theatre For A New City
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
August 30 - September 6, 2015
Set/Costume Design: Maria Deiz
A director faces ex-lovers, Method actors, a psychic assistant, horrible British accents and even fedora-phobia as she attempts to stage a 1920s British Farce in, ‘Ennui: An English Comedy with a French title for an American audience’. Roger and his fiancée Lauren are cast in the two leading roles. Lauren, however, is unaware that her husband-to-be and the director, Lucretia, were an item in the past and still have unresolved feelings for one another. Meanwhile, the two devious understudies, Edwin and Ethel, are plotting ways to sabotage the leading actors, Lucretia’s dim-witted assistant, Mary, is causing chaos with her poorly-timed comments and rejected actor Craig is protesting outside the theatre.
Tickets - $15
Baby's Breath
written and directed by Jeana Scotti
Producers' Club Theaters
358 W. 44th St.
New York, NY
September 1, 2015 - September 5, 2015
Lighting Design: Myllicent Felder
Baby's Breath tells the story of Beatrice who is dealing with an unexpected pregnancy, except the baby isn't developing in her uterus, but in her lung. This unborn lung baby takes Beatrice, her roommate, a doctor, the baby's father, and an obsessive shoe salesman on a journey of life, breath, and strawberry flavored bubblegum.
Tickets - $15
written and directed by Jeana Scotti
Producers' Club Theaters
358 W. 44th St.
New York, NY
September 1, 2015 - September 5, 2015
Lighting Design: Myllicent Felder
Baby's Breath tells the story of Beatrice who is dealing with an unexpected pregnancy, except the baby isn't developing in her uterus, but in her lung. This unborn lung baby takes Beatrice, her roommate, a doctor, the baby's father, and an obsessive shoe salesman on a journey of life, breath, and strawberry flavored bubblegum.
Tickets - $15
Artaud Artaud
Artilliers
Theatre For A New City
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
September 1 - Septembler 15, 2015
Choreographer - Allison Schieler
Scenic Design - Bryn Herdrich
Lighting Design - Elizabeth Stewart
Costumes Design - Gigi Hernandez
Artaud Artaud is a series of vignettes following famous theatre artist and theoretician Antonin Artaud during his time in the Sanitarium at Rodez, France in the 1940s. Artaud is beset by a problem – his id-like Double, font of the lingual energy and baseness of his most famous texts, has taken complete control of his body. Artaud, trapped inside the realms of his mind, can only wrestle with his own Double to regain primacy – but the Double, full of childlike chaos and wonder, begins to find his own wants and needs, and discovers that they are not Artaud's.
The play is an often-shocking, always-visceral, repeatedly-tongue-in-cheek probing into the very nature of our creativity, and wrestles with a troubling conundrum: What does it mean to be Important?
Tickets - $15
Artilliers
Theatre For A New City
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
September 1 - Septembler 15, 2015
Choreographer - Allison Schieler
Scenic Design - Bryn Herdrich
Lighting Design - Elizabeth Stewart
Costumes Design - Gigi Hernandez
Artaud Artaud is a series of vignettes following famous theatre artist and theoretician Antonin Artaud during his time in the Sanitarium at Rodez, France in the 1940s. Artaud is beset by a problem – his id-like Double, font of the lingual energy and baseness of his most famous texts, has taken complete control of his body. Artaud, trapped inside the realms of his mind, can only wrestle with his own Double to regain primacy – but the Double, full of childlike chaos and wonder, begins to find his own wants and needs, and discovers that they are not Artaud's.
The play is an often-shocking, always-visceral, repeatedly-tongue-in-cheek probing into the very nature of our creativity, and wrestles with a troubling conundrum: What does it mean to be Important?
Tickets - $15
Let It Come Down
written by Eve Lederman
directed by Katherine M. Carter
Theatre For A New City
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
September 8 - September 16, 2015
Sound Design: Beth Lake
Costume Design: Caitlin Cisek
Inspired by deposition transcripts from a malpractice case, “Let It Come Down” portrays the relationship between patient and therapist as a seductive love more powerful and volatile than any romance. Rachel is exploring family secrets with her maternal therapist, but when the doctor faces a lawsuit for abruptly terminating treatment, she paints Rachel as violent and an explosive, life changing battle ensues. This tale of betrayal ignites a dialogue about the dynamics of therapy and the blurry line between obsession and love.
Tickets - $18
written by Eve Lederman
directed by Katherine M. Carter
Theatre For A New City
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
September 8 - September 16, 2015
Sound Design: Beth Lake
Costume Design: Caitlin Cisek
Inspired by deposition transcripts from a malpractice case, “Let It Come Down” portrays the relationship between patient and therapist as a seductive love more powerful and volatile than any romance. Rachel is exploring family secrets with her maternal therapist, but when the doctor faces a lawsuit for abruptly terminating treatment, she paints Rachel as violent and an explosive, life changing battle ensues. This tale of betrayal ignites a dialogue about the dynamics of therapy and the blurry line between obsession and love.
Tickets - $18
NOMA
directed by Sara Zepezauer
Theater For A New City
Circus Solaris
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
September 9, 2015 - September 19, 2015
Costume Design: Sara Zepezauer & Chelsea Couto
NOMA" is a visual movement experience directed by Sara Zepezauer, choreographed and designed by the Circus Solaris Collective (www.circussolaris.com). In the work, individual artists collaborate to create something bigger than anything are capable of creating alone. Using visual art as a metaphor for the darkness that exists within us, we explore colors and light through movement as we acknowledge the fragility and instability of life.
Tickets - $18
directed by Sara Zepezauer
Theater For A New City
Circus Solaris
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
September 9, 2015 - September 19, 2015
Costume Design: Sara Zepezauer & Chelsea Couto
NOMA" is a visual movement experience directed by Sara Zepezauer, choreographed and designed by the Circus Solaris Collective (www.circussolaris.com). In the work, individual artists collaborate to create something bigger than anything are capable of creating alone. Using visual art as a metaphor for the darkness that exists within us, we explore colors and light through movement as we acknowledge the fragility and instability of life.
Tickets - $18
Inch By Inch
written by Rachel Graf Evans
directed by Amanda Kate Joshi
Producers' Club Theaters
358 W. 44th St.
New York, NY
September 13, 2015 - September 19, 2015
Choreography - Lindsey Mandolini
Bridget and Tom have returned to Bridget's hometown for her mother's funeral. Bridget learns that she has inherited the house and vegetable garden and finds she must reconcile her own deep-seated fears about family and identity before the Garden will let her leave.
Tickets - $15
written by Rachel Graf Evans
directed by Amanda Kate Joshi
Producers' Club Theaters
358 W. 44th St.
New York, NY
September 13, 2015 - September 19, 2015
Choreography - Lindsey Mandolini
Bridget and Tom have returned to Bridget's hometown for her mother's funeral. Bridget learns that she has inherited the house and vegetable garden and finds she must reconcile her own deep-seated fears about family and identity before the Garden will let her leave.
Tickets - $15
4 Wars
directed by Ann Warren
Theatre For A New City
Concrete Timbre
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
September 13, 2015 - September 20, 2015
Composers: Whitney George, Manuela Lecher and Ann Warren
Choreography: Michelle Stuckey
Lighting Design: Kryssy Wright
Sound Design: Chris Kadis Moscato and Beatriz García Barreto
Costume Designer: Sarah Thea Swafford
4 Wars shows a progression of people struggling to create social change in 4 countries in 1968: from Poland, in which a young woman tries to convince her parents to let her take part in the student protests; to Alexander Dubček defending to Brezhnev his social changes in Czechoslovakia; to a young protester in the midst of the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico; to a group of Yippies in the East Village on the day after Nixon winning the Presidency determining what their next move should be. 4 Wars is an interdisciplinary production that tells the stories with live original music, video, dance, poetry, and text.
Tickets - $20
directed by Ann Warren
Theatre For A New City
Concrete Timbre
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY
September 13, 2015 - September 20, 2015
Composers: Whitney George, Manuela Lecher and Ann Warren
Choreography: Michelle Stuckey
Lighting Design: Kryssy Wright
Sound Design: Chris Kadis Moscato and Beatriz García Barreto
Costume Designer: Sarah Thea Swafford
4 Wars shows a progression of people struggling to create social change in 4 countries in 1968: from Poland, in which a young woman tries to convince her parents to let her take part in the student protests; to Alexander Dubček defending to Brezhnev his social changes in Czechoslovakia; to a young protester in the midst of the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico; to a group of Yippies in the East Village on the day after Nixon winning the Presidency determining what their next move should be. 4 Wars is an interdisciplinary production that tells the stories with live original music, video, dance, poetry, and text.
Tickets - $20
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BAM NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
September 16 - December 20, 2015 |
texts&beheadings/ElizabethR
created and directed by Karin Coonrod
Compagnia de’ Colombari
BAM Fisher Fishman Space
321 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY
October 21 - October 24, 2015
Music: Gina Leishman
Costume Design: Oana Botez
Her reign saw the rise of Shakespeare’s theater, but what did she have to say herself? Dissecting the persona of Elizabeth I through Joycean deconstructions of her letters, speeches, poems, and prayers, texts&beheadings/ElizabethR is Elizabethan drama in its most literal sense. Visionary Karin Coonrod and her international theater collective Compagnia de’ Colombari, working with designer John Conklin, cast four diverse young actresses as the different faces of the Virgin Queen. In a breathless game of hide-and-seek with history, mystery, and the theater form, this brand new work captures the rhetorical panache and ever-shifting essence of an icon.
Tickets - $25
created and directed by Karin Coonrod
Compagnia de’ Colombari
BAM Fisher Fishman Space
321 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY
October 21 - October 24, 2015
Music: Gina Leishman
Costume Design: Oana Botez
Her reign saw the rise of Shakespeare’s theater, but what did she have to say herself? Dissecting the persona of Elizabeth I through Joycean deconstructions of her letters, speeches, poems, and prayers, texts&beheadings/ElizabethR is Elizabethan drama in its most literal sense. Visionary Karin Coonrod and her international theater collective Compagnia de’ Colombari, working with designer John Conklin, cast four diverse young actresses as the different faces of the Virgin Queen. In a breathless game of hide-and-seek with history, mystery, and the theater form, this brand new work captures the rhetorical panache and ever-shifting essence of an icon.
Tickets - $25
The Exalted
directed by Anne Bogart
BAM Fisher Fishman Space
321 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY
October 28 - October 31, 2015
Video Design: Onome Ekeh
Scenic & Costume Design: Maureen Freedman
Poet and performer Carl Hancock Rux (The Temptation of St. Anthony, 2004 Next Wave) recounts the life of German-Jewish art historian Carl Einstein—an influential scholar on African sculpture and Cubism who fled the Nazis—together with tales of genocide and personal genealogy in this magnetic evening of storytelling. With music composed and performed live by Theo Bleckmann (Out Cold/Zippo Songs, 2012 Next Wave), direction by SITI Company’s Anne Bogart (A Rite, 2013 Next Wave), and video by Onome Ekeh, The Exalted untangles knots of heritage, art, and atrocity to reconsider the price of freedom and self-preservation.
Tickets - $25
directed by Anne Bogart
BAM Fisher Fishman Space
321 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY
October 28 - October 31, 2015
Video Design: Onome Ekeh
Scenic & Costume Design: Maureen Freedman
Poet and performer Carl Hancock Rux (The Temptation of St. Anthony, 2004 Next Wave) recounts the life of German-Jewish art historian Carl Einstein—an influential scholar on African sculpture and Cubism who fled the Nazis—together with tales of genocide and personal genealogy in this magnetic evening of storytelling. With music composed and performed live by Theo Bleckmann (Out Cold/Zippo Songs, 2012 Next Wave), direction by SITI Company’s Anne Bogart (A Rite, 2013 Next Wave), and video by Onome Ekeh, The Exalted untangles knots of heritage, art, and atrocity to reconsider the price of freedom and self-preservation.
Tickets - $25
Savannah Bay
written by Marguerite Duras
Théâtre de l’Atelier, Paris
BAM Fisher Fishman Space
321 Ashland Pl.
Brooklyn, NY
November 11 - November 13, 2015
Lighting Design: Dominique Fortin
Costumes: Cidalia da Costa
Two women in a pristine white room: one young, one old. “Who was she?” one asks the other, referring to a third who had long ago met a boy, fallen in love, and bore his child before promptly drowning herself.
Unfolding in the melancholic half-light of memory, Savannah Bay is a mesmerizing two-character drama by the revered French feminist writer Marguerite Duras (1914–1997)—author of The Lover and screenwriter of Hiroshima Mon Amour—whose works for the stage are rarely produced in the US. This Paris production, making its New York premiere, brings the play’s lyrical dialogue to life, creating an impressionistic tapestry of loneliness and connection in which two people form a special bond in the space left by forgetting.
Tickets - SOLD OUT
written by Marguerite Duras
Théâtre de l’Atelier, Paris
BAM Fisher Fishman Space
321 Ashland Pl.
Brooklyn, NY
November 11 - November 13, 2015
Lighting Design: Dominique Fortin
Costumes: Cidalia da Costa
Two women in a pristine white room: one young, one old. “Who was she?” one asks the other, referring to a third who had long ago met a boy, fallen in love, and bore his child before promptly drowning herself.
Unfolding in the melancholic half-light of memory, Savannah Bay is a mesmerizing two-character drama by the revered French feminist writer Marguerite Duras (1914–1997)—author of The Lover and screenwriter of Hiroshima Mon Amour—whose works for the stage are rarely produced in the US. This Paris production, making its New York premiere, brings the play’s lyrical dialogue to life, creating an impressionistic tapestry of loneliness and connection in which two people form a special bond in the space left by forgetting.
Tickets - SOLD OUT
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