| WP Theater Now Taking Applications for 2018-2020 WP LAB | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:34 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
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| WP THEATER NOW TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR ITS 2018-2020 WP LAB “The WP Lab was an amazing experience for me. To have my ideas and creativity fostered in a group of talented women playwrights, producers, and directors was empowering. Not only has the Lab helped me to feel clearer about my voice as a playwright, it has inspired my confidence as a woman with something important to offer our greater theatre continuum. I am extremely thankful to WP for continuing to nurture my art.” –Dominique Morisseau, Playwright (Pipeline, The Detroit Projects) “It is a rare and wonderful feeling to be in a collaborative room with fellow directors. The Directors Lab is not a place where people are vying for opportunities—it is truly about learning from one another—and creating a community for the exchange of ideas.” – Daniella Topol, Director and Artistic Director, Rattlestick Theater “I practice what I learned in the WP Lab every single day. I would not be the artistic producer I am now without WP Theater. If the rising tide lifts all boats, the community at WP lab is the ocean I feel lucky to be a part of. Let them lead the American Theater, and see how that tide will rise!” – Maria Manuela Goyanes, Director of Producing & Artistic Planning, The Public Theater WP Theater has announced that it is now taking applications for its 2018-2020 Lab. WP Theater is looking for female-identified or trans playwrights, directors, and producers who crave an artistic home, professional support, and the resources to launch them into the next phase of their careers to join the 2018-2020 WP Lab. The two-year residency, which culminates with the biennial WP Pipeline Festival, is currently taking applications through March 1, 2018. The artistic heart of WP Theater, the two-year Lab residency provides rising stars in the industry with a vital professional network, entrepreneurial and leadership training, rehearsal space, and most significantly, tangible opportunities for the development and production of bold new work for the stage. As the culmination of the Lab, the Pipeline Festival provides a unique opportunity for audiences and industry to access five new plays at various stages of development, ranging from staged readings to full-length workshop productions. True to its name, WP Pipeline Festival serves as a pipeline to funnel talented female-identified and trans artists and their work to the forefront of American theater. The WP Lab is led by WP’s Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty, Director Shelley Butler (The Most Deserving – WP), and Producer Stephanie Ybarra (Director of Special Artistic Projects – The Public). Four of the five plays in the inaugural 2016 WP Pipeline Festival were included in the 2016 Kilroys List, an annual industry survey of extraordinary new plays by female and trans playwrights: Cygnus by Susan Soon He Stanton; Kings by Sarah Burgess; The Rug Dealer by Riti Sachdeva; and Queens by Martyna Majok. For a complete list of requirements for eligibility and to apply to the lab, visit http://wptheater.org/lab/call-for-applications/. The 2018 Pipeline Festival take place from March 29-April 29 at WP Theater (2162 Broadway). The lab will feature work from writers Donnetta Lavinia Grays, MJ Kaufman, Sylvia Khoury, Zoe Sarnak, Leah Nanako Winkler, directors Melissa Crespo, Morgan Gould, Ellie Heyman, Tyne Rafaeli, Mo Zhou, and producers Roxanna Barrios, SallyCade Holmes, Nidia Medina, Laura Ramadei, Yuvika Tolani. About WP Theater (formerly known as Women’s Project Theater) is the nation’s oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing and promoting the work of female-identified and trans theater artists at every stage in their careers. For nearly four decades we have served as leaders at the forefront of a global movement towards gender parity, and the example we set and the artists we have fostered have grown into to a robust and thriving community of artists in theater and beyond. WP empowers female-identified artists to reach their full potential and, in doing so, challenges preconceptions about the kinds of plays women write and the stories they tell. As the premiere launching pad for some of the most influential female theater artists today, our work has had a significant impact on the field at large. Nearly every prolific female theater artist has been through our doors, including Eve Ensler, María Irene Fornés, Katori Hall, Pam MacKinnon, Lynn Nottage, Leigh Silverman and Anna Deveare Smith. These powerful women found an early artistic home at WP, and are a testament to our role as a driving cultural force. WP was founded in 1978 by visionary producer, Julia Miles, to address the significant under-representation of women in theater. Today, WP accomplishes its mission through several fundamental programs, including: the WP Lab, a two-year mentorship and new play development program for women playwrights, directors, and producers; the Domestic Partner residency program; the Developmental series; and the Main Stage series, which features a full season of Off-Broadway productions written and directed by extraordinary theater artists. |
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