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May 2023
DISABLED WOMEN SPEAK OUT
DWSO is a four-week reading and performance series that will showcase some of the loudest and funniest disabled women in the Bay Area, including performances by Nina G, Jade Theriault, Loren Kraut, Wry Crips Disabled Women's Theatre, a reading of Michaela Goldhabe's The Rehab Follies, an absurd comedy with musical interludes, and more disabled women artists to be announced.
DWSO is produced and curated by Michaela Goldhaber, Artistic Director of Wry Crips Disabled Women's Theatre, and Lead Instigator and Co-Artistic Director of Bay Area Women's Theatre Festival. BAWTF has partnered with Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company to present DWSO on three Monday nights, May 1-15, 2023, on Aurora's stage at 2081 Addison Street in downtown Berkeley. A fourth virtual performance will stream on BAWTF's YouTube Channel on Monday, May 22.
May 1 at 7pm
Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Theatre presents Banned in Berkeley,
a play that was too scandalous for Berkeley in 1993, but that Wry Crips titillated to bring to you now. For mature audiences only.
Featuring comedy by Nina G, author of Stutterer Interrupted.
Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley
Tickets are on a sliding scale $10-25, and are available at the door
or at bawtf.com
May 8 at 7pm
COMEDY NIGHT with Jade Theriault, Ciara Lovelace, and Lauren Kraut, and a staged reading of a 10 minute romantic comedy, Wheels, by Michaela Goldhaber. Directed by Aimee Greenberg.
Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley
Tickets are on a sliding scale $10-20, and are available at the door
or at bawtf.com
May 15 at 7pm
The Rehab Follies by Michaela Goldhaber,
A staged reading directed by Kathryn Seabron.
Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley
Tickets are on a sliding scale $5-20, and are available at the door
or at bawtf.com
May 22 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FALL
VIRTUAL POETRY SLAM
Streaming on BAWTF YouTube Channel
Reservation link atbawtf.com
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WHAT IS THE BAY AREA WOMEN'S THEATRE FESTIVAL?
Classical Women Series showcased important women writers from
centuries ago, popular in their day and way overdue for rediscovery.
In 2020 the instigators of the Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival (baWTF) recruited 40 theatre companies, plus 12 readings and an additional 75 short performances to make an intersectional Festival that amplified women/trans/non-gender conforming theatre artists. We completed our first two readings and then... you know what happened.
So, last year, we began again with 13 readings in 13 weeks.
BIWOC+ Series of never-heard new work by exciting local playwrights.
BAWTF wishes to congratulate
Theatre of Yugen and
Playwright Ai Aida
on their December 2022 production of
NEVER MIND
premiered in our 2022 BIWOC+ Readings
BIGGER AND BETTER EACH YEAR
BAWTF will build each year and add to our programming. In 2024 we aim to coproduce a full production of a play from one of our reading series. We are in conversations with theaters around the bay to present a three day festival/conference in 2025 that will bring theatre practitioners and theatre lovers from around the country to the Bay Area.
WE’RE COMMITTED TO ANTIRACISM AND MAXIMAL ACCESS!
About Us
About the Festival
AMPLIFY! a 24-Hour Celebration of Women+ in Performance
About the Festival
Inspired by the success of similar events, a group born out of the “Yeah, I Said Feminist” Theater Salon is organizing the first Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival showcasing work written by, directed by and done by women+ and non-binary artists.
Getting Involved
AMPLIFY! a 24-Hour Celebration of Women+ in Performance
About the Festival
Passionate about theatre? Join the baWTF Ambassadors!
We are looking for women+ emerging theatremakers (age 18-25) to create a forum, empower your voice and engage with baWTF events.
AMPLIFY! a 24-Hour Celebration of Women+ in Performance
AMPLIFY! a 24-Hour Celebration of Women+ in Performance
AMPLIFY! a 24-Hour Celebration of Women+ in Performance
Because AMPLIFY works best as an in-person event, it will return in 2025
In the meantime, check out our YouTube Channel for recordings of 2020 Events
