the 10th annual Women in theater Festival
A.R.T./New York Theatres
June 13-29, 2025
the 10th annual Women in theater Festival
A.R.T./New York Theatres
June 13-29, 2025
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DOROTHY’S DICTIONARY
DAVID AND KATIE GET RE-MARRIED
THE ADVENTURES OF PUSSY JONES
a NEW YORK Premiere Production
By E.M. Lewis
Co-directed by Andrew W. Smith and Michole Biancosino
Set Design by Yijun Yang
Light Design and Video by Courtney Smith
Sound Design by Tate Abdullah
June 13, 14, 19, 21, 28 at 7pm; June 22, 29 at 2pm Run Time 75 minutes
Sparks fly when Zan, an angry high school student, is forced to work off his com
a NEW YORK Premiere Production
By E.M. Lewis
Co-directed by Andrew W. Smith and Michole Biancosino
Set Design by Yijun Yang
Light Design and Video by Courtney Smith
Sound Design by Tate Abdullah
June 13, 14, 19, 21, 28 at 7pm; June 22, 29 at 2pm Run Time 75 minutes
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
THE ADVENTURES OF PUSSY JONES
DAVID AND KATIE GET RE-MARRIED
THE ADVENTURES OF PUSSY JONES
A New Devised Workshop Production
Director/Writer: Gab Cody
Assistant Director: Pria Dahiya
Performance Ensemble: Tami Dixon, Michael Fuller, Laurie Klatscher, Richard McBride, Saige Smith, Sam Turich
Dramaturg: Kristi Good
June 17 & 18 at 7pm Runtime: 90 minutes
The Adventures of Pussy Jones is a “DaDa cabaret” and Artificial Intelligence* ha
A New Devised Workshop Production
Director/Writer: Gab Cody
Assistant Director: Pria Dahiya
Performance Ensemble: Tami Dixon, Michael Fuller, Laurie Klatscher, Richard McBride, Saige Smith, Sam Turich
Dramaturg: Kristi Good
June 17 & 18 at 7pm Runtime: 90 minutes
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.” When a theatre-creating A.I. is tasked with exploring this theme, it runs amok, resurrecting some of the 20th century’s greatest literary figures (James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Harper Lee) who in turn resurrect famed novelist Edith Wharton (whose childhood nickname was Pussy Jones) to unravel and catechize The Politics of Femininity for the benefit of their 21st-century audience.
*no AI was used to create this piece
DAVID AND KATIE GET RE-MARRIED
DAVID AND KATIE GET RE-MARRIED
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.
June 20, 24, 27 at 7pm Run Time 60 minutes
You are cordially invited to the second wedding of David and Katie. This confi
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.
June 20, 24, 27 at 7pm Run Time 60 minutes
You are cordially invited to the second wedding of David and Katie. This confidently codependent couple will teach you how to love correctly through original music, exotic rituals, and a unity volcano. This time it'll stick! For realz tho!
David and Katie Get Re-Married pairs David Carl (Gary Busey's One-Man Hamlet, Trump Lear, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Katie Hartman (Netflix’s The Week Of, The Other Two, Younger) in a slapdash wedding betwixt a star-crossed couple who has broken up and reunited more frequently than Spiderman has been rebooted. This dark comedy with original music features the worst couple in the world on the second happiest day of their lives after the first happiest day of their lives didn't work out.
POWERSUITS
SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE
DAVID AND KATIE GET RE-MARRIED
A World Premiere Production
Created and Performed by
Lida Winfield and Michole Biancosino
June 26 at 7pm, June 28 at 2pm, Runtime 50 minutes
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 gestur
A World Premiere Production
Created and Performed by
Lida Winfield and Michole Biancosino
June 26 at 7pm, June 28 at 2pm, Runtime 50 minutes
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
SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE
SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE
SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE
A New Play Reading
Finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Festival.
By Sally Seitz
June 22nd at 2pm (on a double bill with Dorothy's Dictionary, Runtime 90 minutes
AT THE LIBERTY INN
SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE
SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE
A New Play Reading
By Emily Bice
Directed by Cameron King
June 26th at 7pm (on a double bill with Power Suits), Runtime 90 minutes
Raf and Katie are in a toxic situationship (whether they know it or not), and they've just broken up AT THE LIBERTY INN: the last quickie motel in Manhattan. As the duo desperately avoids the end, they morph into
A New Play Reading
By Emily Bice
Directed by Cameron King
June 26th at 7pm (on a double bill with Power Suits), Runtime 90 minutes
Raf and Katie are in a toxic situationship (whether they know it or not), and they've just broken up AT THE LIBERTY INN: the last quickie motel in Manhattan. As the duo desperately avoids the end, they morph into different fantasy role-play scenarios of who they COULD be in this room, only to discover that they don't work no matter who, what, or when they are. At the Liberty Inn was workshopped at the Seven House Gallery Residency in 2023.
HEARTBEAT OPHELIA
GRAHAM CRACKERS AND OATMEAL
HEARTBEAT OPHELIA
A New Play Reading
By D.L. Siegel
Directed by Rachel Dart
June 25 at 7pm, Runtime 2 hours
Ophelia finds herself marooned in Texas during unprecedented times…or is it Denmark? This radical deconstruction of Hamlet refocuses the story on a modern, scholarly, and pregnant Ophelia as her path is altered by personal tragedies and the red tape of a red state.
June 25 at 7pm, Runtime 2 hours
CANDY GIRLS
GRAHAM CRACKERS AND OATMEAL
HEARTBEAT OPHELIA
A New Play Reading
By Jeana Scotti
Directed by Ashley Bufkin
June 21 at 2pm, Runtime 90 minutes
A candy and ice cream store has their annual health inspection coming up, but it's filled with more roaches than candy. The manager tries to get them in shape to get their A in the window, but the teenage girls who work there are more focused on co
A New Play Reading
By Jeana Scotti
Directed by Ashley Bufkin
June 21 at 2pm, Runtime 90 minutes
A candy and ice cream store has their annual health inspection coming up, but it's filled with more roaches than candy. The manager tries to get them in shape to get their A in the window, but the teenage girls who work there are more focused on college apps, licking pieces of candy and putting them back in the bins, and being watched on the new security cameras by the owner, Rick. When Tanya tries to report Rick, things only get messier because as we know, roaches can find their way into even the smallest crack.
GRAHAM CRACKERS AND OATMEAL
GRAHAM CRACKERS AND OATMEAL
PARENT-CAREGIVER PLAYWRIGHTS GROUP
Memorial Production of a Play
By Christopher Ulloth
In memory of our dear 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, a yearly prize for a woman or non-binary playwright.
PARENT-CAREGIVER PLAYWRIGHTS GROUP
PARENT-CAREGIVER PLAYWRIGHTS GROUP
PARENT-CAREGIVER PLAYWRIGHTS GROUP
Curated by Lia Romeo and Liz Appel
The Parent-Caregiver Playwrights Group is a selective playwrights' workshop for writers who exist at the difficult intersection of creativity and caregiving. The group meets monthly to workshop new plays, share industry knowledge, and provide support and community.
FEMINIST CONNECTOR EVENT
PARENT-CAREGIVER PLAYWRIGHTS GROUP
FEMINIST CONNECTOR EVENT
Join us for a night of pop up feminist art and community.
June 19th, following the 7pm performance of Dorothy’s Dictionary
Press
Past WIT
WIT 2024 - Bygone Fruit
WIT 2024 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
WIT 2022 - #GirlPowerHour.
photo by Julianna Austin
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