Coming to the NYC stage in June, the 10th Annual Women in Theater Festival, presented by Project Y Theatre Company at A.R.T./New York Theatres, features a lineup of ten new works by women artists, including three full productions, NYC premieres, world premieres, workshop productions, readings, and feminist connector events. The mission of the festival is to go beyond parity, to broaden the opportunities for women in the entertainment industry by producing new work by women with at least 50% female representation among all the artists involved, as they commission and produce new works by women+ writers, devisers, and creators, develop an audience interested in feminist theater, and foster opportunities that center interdisciplinary practices and experimentation.
The three full-stage productions in this year’s WIT Festival are:
Dorothy’s Dictionary – Sparks fly when Zan, an angry high school student, is forced to work off his community service assignment by reading to Dorothy, an ailing librarian, in this two-hander written by E.M. Lewis and co-directed by Andrew W. Smith and Michole Biancosino. But each of them just might have what the other lacks, if they could only find the words. Book by book, they begin to form an unexpected friendship – just when they need it most. June 13, 14, 19, 21, and 28 at 7 pm; June 22 and 29 at 2 pm. Running Time: 75 minutes.
David and Katie Get Remarried – Written and performed by David Carl and Katie Hartman, and directed by Michole Biancosino, this dark comedy with original music, exotic rituals, and a unity volcano features the worst couple in the world on the second happiest day of their lives after the first happiest day of their lives didn’t work out. The show pairs David Carl and Katie Hartman in a slapdash wedding between a star-crossed co-dependent couple who has broken up and reunited more frequently than Spiderman has been rebooted. This time it’ll stick! June 20, 24, and 27 at 7 pm. Running Time: 60 minutes.
Powersuits – In this world-premiere production, created and performed by Lida Winfield and Michole Biancosino, two women enter the space looking powerful, but don’t worry, they’re here to take care of you. This wild duet critiques normative gender roles and performances with exaggerated costumes, movements, and gestures, depicting stereotypes of authority and beauty as absurd, and calls out the alienation that comes from capitalist grind culture. June 26 at 7 pm; June 28 at 2 pm. Running Time: 50 minutes.
The festival will also present a devised workshop production of The Adventures of Pussy Jones by Gab Cody on June 17 and 18 at 7 pm; readings of At The Liberty Inn by Emily Bice on June 26 at 7 pm; Candy Girls by Jeana Scotti on June 21 at 2 pm; Six Inches above the Knee by Sally Seitz on June 14 at 2 pm; Heartbeat Ophelia by D.L. Siegel on June 25 at 7 pm; and Graham Crackers and Oatmeal by Chris Ulloth, seen in memorial pop-up performances commemorating the playwright and producer of the WIT festival for nine seasons, who died this past year, to raise money for an award fund in his name supporting the work of a woman or non-binary playwright; and two special events, the Feminist Connector, a night of pop-up feminist art and community on June 19, following the performance of Dorothy’s Dictionary; and the Parent-Caregiver Playwrights Group, a workshop for writers who exist at the difficult intersection of creativity and caregiving, led by playwrights Liz Appel and Lia Romeo, to share industry knowledge and to provide support and community.
The 10th Annual Women in Theater Festival plays June 13-29, 2025, at Project Y Theatre, performing at A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street, NYC. For tickets (priced at $$21.85 General Admission, $65 Season Pass, including fees), go online.
