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By  committing to be a part of the Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival  (“baWTF”), a company agrees to produce one or more of the following in March/April/May 2020 (full production | staged reading |  workshop/panel/event), promote the event(s) as part of the baWTF and offer a ticket discount (20% off) to Festival Pass  Holders.

The Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival: March, April, and May 2020

The  Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival (baWTF) aims to highlight gender parity, diversity and inclusion on- and off-stage in all 9 Bay Area  counties. The festival spans International Women’s Day, International  Transgender Day of Visibility and SWAN DAY (Support Women Artists Now).  All participating theater works will be written and directed by women+ or non-binary theater practitioners and at least 50% of the performers and the designers will be women+ or non-binary artists. The festival  includes: 

• New plays, devised works, and classical plays  written by women+ or non-binary playwrights, including a Classical  Reading Series (plays written from the Restoration era to the 1930s) and a Women of Color reading series (comprised of primarily contemporary  plays)
• Full productions produced by participating Bay Area theater companies and promoted by baWTF
• Workshops and forums
• AMPLIFY! a 24-hour marathon of women+ taking the stage including solo works, stand  up, short plays, staged readings, devised works, improv, clowning,  workshops and more.  From 6pm April 18 - 6pm April 19, 2020 at Brava  Theater in San Francisco.

More information on the festival may be found at bayareawomenstheatrefestival.com

Questions? Festival Producer/Managing Director Susan Shay may be reached at bayareaWTF@gmail.com

If you have not already listed your show/reading/event on the SWAN Day calendar, please do so! This festival is all about SUPPORTING WOMEN ARTISTS NOW

https://stateraarts.org/add-swan-event