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February- April
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.
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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.
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
