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HEDGEBROOK WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL The Women Playwrights Festival was founded in 1998 to nurture and support the work of women playwrights. Working in partnership with major regional theatres, Hedgebrook selects playwrights from a group of highly accomplished writers nominated by a national committee, presents public readings of the playwrights’ latest work, and then invites the writers to a residency at Hedgebrook for further work on their new plays. A list of alumnae of the Women Playwrights Festival reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary women playwrights, including Tanya Barfield (Blue Door), Lynn Nottage (Intimate Apparel), Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius), Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House), Kathleen Tolan (Memory House), and many more. 2010 Women Playwrights Festival The Playwrights
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Sherry Kramer Sherry Kramer’s work has been seen at theaters across the country and abroad, including the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, InterAct Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theater, New York’s Second Stage, The Woolly Mammoth, The Tokyo International Arts Festival, and The Theater of the First Amendment. She is a recipient of N E A, New York Foundation for the Arts and McKnight Fellowships, the Weissberger Playwriting Award and a New York Drama League Award (What a Man Weighs), the LA Women in Theater New Play Award (The Wall of Water), The Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (David’s Redhaired Death), and a commission from A.S.K. (The Mad Master). Other plays include When Something Wonderful Ends, Things that Break, About Spontaneous Combustion, The Master and Margarita (music theatre adaptation with composer Margaret Pine), The Release of a Live Performance, Partial Objects, The World at Absolute Zero, Hold for Three, Before and After, The Long Arms of Jupiter, The Ruling Passion, The Law Makes Evening Fall, and The Bay of Fundy: An Adaptation of One Line from The Mayor of Casterbridge. She was the first national member of New Dramatists, and teaches playwriting at Bennington College, and in the MFA programs of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and the Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin. x
Lenelle Moïse (www.lenellemoise.com) is a Haitian-American poet, playwright, vox musician, and nationally-touring performance artist. Equipped with an MFA in Playwriting from Smith College, she creates politicized texts about identity, immigration, spirituality, and the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality. Moïse regularly performs and leads workshops at colleges and conferences throughout the United States. She has performed in venues as diverse as the Omega Institute, the Louisiana Superdome, and the United Nations. Her writing is featured in several anthologies, including: Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution and We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists. Her essays have been published in Utne Reader, Make/Shift Magazine, the legendary OurChart.com and Velvetpark Magazine. Lenelle also co-wrote the award-winning feature film Sexual Dependency. Her critically-acclaimed play Expatriate was produced Off-Broadway at the Culture Project in 2008. Curve Magazine calls her work “piercing, covering territory both intimate and political . . . vivid and powerful.” x
Sarah Treem has lived up and down the eastern seaboard, but no one place for too long. She always wanted to be a playwright, which was strange in a family of doctors. Her play A Feminine Ending premiered at Playwrights Horizons in the fall of 2007, went on to productions at South Coast Repertory and Portland Center Stage, and was published by Samuel French. Her other plays include: Human Voices (Manhattan Theater Club’s Springboard New Play series, New York Stage and Film), Empty Sky (South Coast’s Pacific Playwrights Festival, winner of the Reva Shiner Playwriting award), Mirror Mirror (developed at Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova), and Against the Wall (Source Theatre, DC; Friends of the Italian Opera, Berlin). Sarah’s latest plays include Vienna’s Amazing (Ojai Playwriting Conference) and Orphan Island (Sundance Theater Lab). She has taught playwriting at Yale, where she earned her B.A. and M.F.A. She is also producer on the HBO drama “In Treatment,” and she’s currently writing a romantic comedy for Miramax. History of the Women Playwrights Festival 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 |
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