Forty-four theater companies in the Washington region have signed on to the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, which will present 44 world premieres by women over an eight-week period in the late summer and early fall of 2015. What follows is the list, as of today, of the companies that have already recruited playwrights and the names of those writers:
Adventure Theatre, Karen Zacarias and Debbie Wicks Lapuma
African Continuum Theatre, Thembi Duncan
Arcturus Theatre Company, Marilyn Austin
Guillotine Theatre, Monique LaForce
Hub Theatre, Anne M. McCaw
Imagination Stage, Suzan Zeder
Keegan Theatre, Ursula Rani Sarma and Rosemary Jenkinson
Landless Theatre, Melissa Baughman and Irene Jericho
Longacre Lea, Miranda Rose Hall and Kathleen Akerley
Pinky Swear Productions, Amy Couchoud
Pointless Theatre, Patti Kalil and Mel Bieler
Quotidian Theatre, Audrey Cefaly
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Yael Farber
Signature Theatre, Heidi Thomas
Spooky Action Theater, Christine Evans
Theater Alliance, Katherine Clair
Unexpected Stage, Jacqueline Goldfinger
Venus Theatre, Claudia Barnett
Wait Don’t Leave Productions, Stephanie Carrie, Joanna Castle Miller, Azie Mira Dungey and Libby Heily
Washington Improv Theater, women ensemble and Young Playwrights’ Theater, multiple student playwrights
The companies that have agreed to participate but have yet to announce a playwright are:
1st Stage; Arena Stage
Compass Rose Theater
Discovery Theatre
dog & pony dc
Doorway Arts Ensemble
The Essential Theatre
Factory 499
Flying V Theatre
force/collision
Ford’s Theatre
Forum Theatre
The Inkwell
MetroStage
Molotov Theatre Group
No Rules Theatre
Olney Theatre Center
Round House Theatre
Spooky Action Theater
Studio Theatre
Synetic Theater
Taffety Punk Theatre
Theater J
Woolly Mammoth Theatre