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The award-winning Women’s Project Theater is
the nation’s oldest and largest company dedicated to
producing and promoting plays written and directed by women,
who receive only 20% of the professional opportunities
nationwide.
Now in its 36th year,
Women’s Project Theater has produced over 600 main
stage productions and developmental projects,
and published 11 anthologies of plays
by women.
Under the leadership of Julie Crosby,
Producing Artistic Director, since 2005, Women’s Project
Theater was founded in 1978 by Julia Miles to address the
significant under-representation of women theater artists
and has since built a tremendous legacy. Although even today
women lack parity in pay and opportunity, the artists who
have broken through the glass ceiling have first crossed the
threshold at Women’s Project Theater, including Eve Ensler,
Lynn Nottage, Maria Irene Fornes, Katori Hall, Pam
MacKinnon, Leigh Silverman and Anna Deavere Smith, among the
many.
Women’s Project Theater
accomplishes its mission through two fundamental programs:
the WP
Lab, a two-year
mentorship and new play development program for women
playwrights, directors, and producers, and the Main
Stage series, which
annually features three off-Broadway productions written and
directed by extraordinary women theater artists.
And each year, Women’s
Project Theater hosts the Women
of Achievement Awards Gala ,
which pays homage to luminaries such as Chita Rivera, Eve
Ensler, Whoopi Goldberg, Estelle Parsons, Gloria Steinem,
Vanessa Redgrave, and
Laurie Anderson to name but a few.
Join us,
as a member and enjoy dynamic productions by extraordinarily
talented artists... Your
support matters.
www.wptheater.org/about/mission/#sthash.zSfz6PNd.dpuf
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