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This year the Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival (BaWTF) is producing three reading/performance series:
BIWOC+ Series will feature staged readings of new plays by BIWOC+ authors performed and directed BIWOC+ actors and directors.
Monday nights, February and March 2023.
Aurora Theatre Company and more venues TBD
Women Aloud will feature solo performances by women from around the bay telling their stories in their own words.
Monday nights, March and April 2023,
Venues TBD
Disabled Women Out Loud will feature Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Theatre performing one of their classic works, comedians J.A.D.E. and Nina G, and readings by local disabled authors.
Monday nights at theatres around the Bay Area including
Aurora Theatre Company, the Live Oak Theater, and more venues TBD.
Additionally, BaWTF will be spotlighting productions happening around the Bay Area that are written and directed by women+ {with parity in the cast and creative team}, beginning January 20, 2023 with Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage, directed by Taylor Reynolds at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and continuing January 27, 2023 with Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Dawn Monique Williams at Aurora Theatre Company. These productions will offer discounted tickets to followers and fans of the festival.
Join our mailing list and follow us on social media [see below] to keep up with the latest news on the series and discount offers.
WHAT IS THE BAY AREA WOMEN'S THEATRE FESTIVAL?
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
Classical Women Series showcased important women writers from centuries ago, popular in their day and way overdue for rediscovery.
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.
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.
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.
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
*Thank you to the Statera Foundation for development of this language
Women: We recognize the limiting nature of the binary use of woman. We use the term “women+” to represent the expansive definition of women to include women+, womyn, womxn, wimmin, womin, woomin and trans persons. Our artists include women+, non-binary and genderqueer folx.
baWTF welcomes you.
Intersectionality: baWTF works through an intersectional lens for gender parity. We understand and acknowledge that systems of oppression and discrimination are interdependent and span all social categorizations such as race, class, gender, ability, and sexual orientation as they apply to a given individual or group. Addressing one spoke of systematic discrimination or disadvantage means holistically addressing them all.
COVID-19 has darkened our theaters for the time being -- please consider making a donation here and at any of our participating theaters to keep our artists PAID and in the Bay Area beyond this health crisis. Stay safe and we'll see you on the other side.
We are a member of Intersection for the Arts. Intersection for the Arts is a historic arts nonprofit that provides people working in arts and culture with fiscal sponsorship and resources to grow.
We are fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions.
You may donate online by clicking here. If you would like to write a check, please make checks payable to Intersection for the Arts, and write *BAY AREA WOMEN'S THEATRE FESTIVAL* in the memo line. This ensures that you’ll receive an acknowledgement letter for tax purposes, and your donation will be available for our project. Checks may be mailed to Intersection for the Arts, 1448 Market Street, SF, CA 94102.
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