Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival—New York

For more than a dozen years, Hedgebrook has supported the work of women playwrights and served an important role in the development of new plays for the contemporary American theatre through the Women Playwrights Festival. Working in partnership with major regional theatres, we have provided women playwrights with the unique balance of solitude and community that is essential for them to create their best work. A list of alumnae of the Women Playwrights Festival reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary women playwrights, including Tanya Barfifield (Blue Door), Lynn Nottage (Ruined), Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius), Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House), Kathleen Tolan (Memory House), and many more.

In 2010, Hedgebrook is proud to present playwrights Danai Gurira, Sherry Kramer, Lenelle Moïse, and Sarah Treem, who completed a two-week residency in May to work on their latest plays: a comedy about beauty and time, a heated drama about sex, race, and academia, an unsettling drama about femininity and violence, and an ambitious drama set against amidst civil war in Liberia. Dramaturgs Liz Engelman and Christine Sumption provided support and counsel, while Hedgebrook has provided tranquility and radical hospitality.

Click here to read more about the festival.

Now, Hedgebrook brings readings of some these new plays to NYU on August 28th and 29th.

All readings will take place in the Shubert Theatre, and each will be followed by a brief discussion.

Saturday, 8/28

4:00pm: A Thing of Beauty by Sherry Kramer

7:30pm: Merit by Lenelle Moïse

Sunday, 8/29

4:00pm: SYMPOSIUM with Hedgebrook playwrights and Executive Director Amy Wheeler

6:00pm: Eclipsed by Danai Gurira

NYU's Shubert Theatre

All readings are free (limited seating)
To attend, call the NYU reservation line: 212-998-1921