CELEBRATE! 2022-2023 marks the League of Professional Theatre Women’s 40th Anniversary Season: Dedicated to celebrating its diverse and accomplished membership, its rich history and its vision for a future in which women play an ever more central role in American theatre. At this year’s season launch, we were thrilled to see so many next generation … Continue reading
In a world filled with anxiety and fear due to the ongoing pandemic, as theatres remained shuttered and the future seemed uncertain, a group of women from all over the world started an online project. These women met virtually during the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award 2020 event week. Initiated and … Continue reading
This year’s Theatre Women Awards will honor director/choreographer Graciela Daniele (Lifetime Achievement Award), director May Adrales (Josephine Abady Award), acting teacher and author Mari Lyn Henry (LPTW Special Award), the founding members of the feminist activist and advocacy group The Kilroys (LPTW Lucille Lortel Visionary Award), scenic designer Mimi Lien (Ruth Morley Award), translator/director/producer Joanne … Continue reading
The League of Professional Theatre Women is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to promote visibility and increase opportunities for women in the Professional Theatre. We do this through numerous programs and events. Please take a look throughout this site to find out all that we do for women in theatre. The League of Professional Theatre … Continue reading
Women in Theatre Magazine Online, a project of the League of Professional Theatre Women, seeks 3 Guest Editors to be responsible for overseeing the curation and editing of 2 features and 2-4 blog responses for publication on HowlRound.org and WITOnline.org. Responsibilities include: – Familiarizing yourself with the content already published on WITOnline.org – Finding writers … Continue reading
WOMEN IN THEATRE Magazine 2011-2012 WOMAN NATION: WOMEN LEADING U.S. THEATRES IN THE 21ST CENTURY This celebratory issue of WOMEN IN THEATRE Magazine is a 54-page issue featuring profiles of artistic directors such as Diane Paulus of A.R.T. in Cambridge, Mass.; Raelle Myrick-Hodges of Brava Theater Center in San Francisco; Susan Booth at the Alliance in Atlanta, … Continue reading
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