The Women’s Voices Theater Festival is an unprecedented effort that will unite more than 50 professional theater companies in the Washington DC area to highlight plays written by women. Throughout September and October 2015, participating theaters will each present world-premiere productions of a work by one or more female playwrights.

The artistic directors of Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company generated the concept of the Festival as a way of crafting a response to the fact that far fewer female writers’ plays receive full productions on American stages than those of their male counterparts.

Many of the participating theaters will host discussions and workshops with playwrights, producers, collaborators and scholars.

Tickets: Individual performance tickets are available directly from the venue. A Festival Pass provides a discount of up to 50% on single tickets, based on offers from each participating theater for Festival productions and events.

Women’s Voices Theater Festival Programming

As of March 31, 2015 (Plays, artists and dates are subject to change)

Opening Celebration: Sept. 8, 2015 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

In Washington DC

• Alliance for New Music-Theatre - Women of Troy/Voices from Afghanistan by Susan Galbraith, Oct. 14-Nov. 1
• Arcturus Theater Company - The Point by Marilyn Ansevin Austin, Sept. 24- Oct.10 in Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church
• Arena Stage - Destiny of Desire by Karen Zacarías, Sept. 11- Oct. 18 and Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End by Allison Engel and Margaret Engel, Oct. 16-Nov. 8
• Atlas Performing Arts Center - Stay Awake by Mary Hall Surface, Oct. 2-12

• dog & pony dc - Sing Me A Song by Wyckham Avery
• Doorway Arts Theatre Company - The Colony by Allyson Currin
• FABUM, Inc. - To Be Announced
• Faction of Fools Theatre Company - Frankenstein by Lindsey D. Snyder, Oct. 8-Nov. 1 at Eastman Studio Theater at Gallaudet University        
• Factory 449 - Memory Like Water by Allyson Currin, Sept. 3-27 at the Anacostia Arts Center
• First Draft at the Rose Theatre - Stolen Beauty by Leslie Kobylinski, October-November at the Andrew Keegan Theatre/Arts Club of Washington
• Folger Theatre - texts and beheadings/Elizabeth R devised and directed by Karin Coonrod, Sept. 19- Oct. 4
• Ford’s Theatre - The Guard by Jessica Dickey, Sept. 25- Oct. 18
• Forum Theatre - To Be Announced
• Guillotine Theatre - Hootenanny by Monique LaForce, Oct. 2-11 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Oct. 16-18 in the Receiving Vault at Ivy Hill Cemetery
• The Keegan Theatre - The Magic Tree by Ursula Rani Sarma and The Dealer of Ballynafeigh by Rosemary Jenkinson
• Kennedy Center -  Darius & Twig by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Oct. 31-Nov. 8
• Longacre Lea - Bones In Whispers by Kathleen Akerley, Aug. 12- Sept. 6 at The Callan Theatre and How We Died of Disease-Related Illness by Miranda Rose Hall, Aug. 12- Sept. 6 at The Callan Theatre
• Pallas Theatre Collective - Clover by Laura Rocklyn and Ty Hallmark
• Pointless Theatre - Gimme a Band, Gimme a Banana! The Carmen Miranda Story by Mel Bieler and Patti Kalil, Oct. 16-Nov. 14 at Capital Fringe’s Trinidad Theatre
• Scena Theatre - Lady Lay by Lydia Stryk
• Shakespeare Theatre Company - Salome adapted and directed by Yaël Farber in the Lansburgh Theatre
• Spooky Action Theater Company - Can't Complain by Christine Evans, Oct. 1-25
• Studio Theatre - Animal by Clare Lizzimore
• Taffety Punk Theatre Company - Playwright Liz Maestri, Sept. 18- Oct. 10
• Theater Alliance - Night Falls on the Blue Planet by Kathleen Akerley, Sept. 3-28
• Theater J - Queens Girl in the World by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Sept. 16- Oct. 11
• Thelma Theatre - Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick by Jennie Berman Eng, Sept. 17- Oct. 4 at Trinidad Theatre and Princess Margaret by Patricia Connelly, Sept. 17- Oct. 4 at Trinidad Theatre
• Tonic Theater Company - A Hero of the Revolution by D.W. Gregory
• Washington Improv Theater - The October Issue by Jaci Pulice and The October Issue ensemble, Sept. 17- Oct. 10 at Source
• Washington Women in Theatre - Just Between Us by Marilyn Hausfeld
• Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company - Women Laughing Alone With Salad by Sheila Callaghan, Sept. 7- Oct. 4
• Young Playwrights’ Theater - Girls Write Out! by four young female playwrights

In Maryland

• Adventure Theatre MTC - Caps For Sale, The Musical based on the children’s book by Esphyr Slobodkina, adapted by Ann Marie Mulhearn Sayer & Michael J. Bobbitt, music & lyrics by William Yanesh, Sept 11-27
• Compass Rose Theater - To Be Announced
• Flying V - The Oregon Trail by Bekah Brunstetter, Sept. 4-20 at The Writer’s Center
• The Highwood Theatre - Duir-wyyd: The Dreamer's Doorway by Sandra Kammann, Oct. 2-25
• Imagination Stage -When She Had Wings by Suzan Zeder, Sept. 23-Nov. 1
• The Interrobang Theatre Company and The Strand Theatre Company - Kerrmoor by Susan McCully, Oct. 29-Nov. 14 at The Mercury Theatre
• Live Garra Theatre - A Matter of Worth by Marcia E. Cole, Oct. 12-27
• Olney Theatre Center  - Bad Dog by Jennifer Hoppe-House, Sept. 30- Oct. 25 in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
• Quotidian Theatre Company - Maytag Virgin by Audrey Cefaly, Oct. 2-Nov. 1 at The Writer’s Center
• Rep Stage - Technicolor Life by Jami Brandli, Oct. 21-Nov. 8 at Rep Stage Smith Theatre/Horowitz Center for the Arts
• Round House Theatre - Ironbound by Martyna Majok, Sept. 9- Oct. 4
• Unexpected Stage Company - Trish Tinkler Gets Saved by Jacqueline Goldfinger, Oct. 8-18 at Randolph Road Theater
• Venus Theatre Company - Witches Vanish by Claudia Barnett, Aug. 20- Sept. 13 and Raw by Amy Bernstein, Oct. 22-Nov. 15

In Virginia

• 1st Stage - To Be Announced
• MetroStage - Uprising by Gabrielle Fulton
• NextStop Theatre Company - The Maternity Project by Ginna Hoben, Sept. 24- Oct. 11 at The Industrial Strength Theatre
• Pinky Swear Productions - Playwright Donna Reinhold
• Signature Theatre - Cake Off based on the original play by Sheri Wilner, book by Sheri Wilner & Julia Jordan, lyrics by Julia Jordan & Adam Gwon, music by Adam Gwon, Sept. 29-Nov. 22
• Synetic Theater - Alice in Wonderland by Lloyd Rose, Sept. 30-Nov. 8

For more information about the artists, venues and tickets visit womensvoicestheaterfestival.org