 The heart of WP’s artistic programming is its free, two-year Lab for early to midcareer playwrights, directors, and producers. It is a vibrant community providing opportunities to network, brainstorm, test ideas, make new connections, and envision bold new work for the stage.
Truly, the WP Lab is about creating an artistic home for members, a place to share work, hone craft, receive coaching, and create a platform to show the breadth and depth of women in the theater.
WP is deeply committed to providing its Lab artists and alumnae with real production opportunities. The majority of WP’s most recent mainstage and developmental productions have been written or directed by WP Lab members and alumnae, including work by Liz Duffy Adams, Lear deBessonet, Liz Diamond, Anne Kauffman, Carson Kreitzer, Pam MacKinnon, Wendy McClellan, Rebecca Patterson, Peggy Stafford, Saviana Stanescu, Daniella Topol, Joy Tomasko, Kathryn Walat, and Meiyin Wang. Beyond WP, Katori Hall's The Mountaintop won London's Olivier Award and is now heading to Broadway; Maria Goyanes was just appointed Associate Producer at the Public; and Pam MacKinnon garnered top honors at the 2010 Obie Awards. In August 2010, WP proudly launched a brand new publication. Featuring a hilarious and biting preface by Theresa Rebeck that challenges the American theater to celebrate and produce its women playwrights, the anthology showcases the extraordinary work of eleven of them from the 2008-2010 Lab. The playwrights are as diverse in style, background and experience as they are talented. Collectively, they’ve been produced, published and heaped with swanky honors on four continents. For details, visit www.outoftimeandplace.com.
PLAYWRIGHTS LAB
Founded in 1994, the Playwrights Lab helps members to develop new work in a productive environment. Lab Playwrights meet monthly under the direction of Megan Carter, Associate Artistic Director and Dramaturg, to hear their work read aloud and receive feedback."Women's Project was my first theatrical home in New York and it gave me a safe space to develop my voice and my craft. But the relationship goes beyond development, here women are heard, here women roar." Katori Hall, WP Lab 2006-2008, NYSCA Playwright-in-Residence in 2008.
“Women's Project truly nurtures its Lab members and has a keen eye on their development as artists. They bring in panelists for seminars, Q&As -- these have helped me hone in on and fine tune skills, like how to market myself, pitch a project I'm stoked about, and clearly / confidently articulate my ideas. It's pretty inspiring to be in the room with so many driven, successful gals!” Bekah Brunstetter, WP Lab 2008-2010
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"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. And the partnership with the Playwrights Lab is ideal! I
have met some wonderfully passionate and creative writers, and I am
confident that we will all continue to cook up some great projects
and collaborations with one another in years to come."
- Daniella Topol, WP Lab 2004-2008, director of WP's mainstage production of Sand in 2008 and Lascivious Something in 2010.
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PRODUCERS LAB
Established in September 2006, Producers Lab members work to extend the influence of women theater artists. Armed with practical tools and powerful connections, Producers Lab members are empowered to advance specific theatrical projects and special events at WP and beyond. The Producers Lab is founded on a firm belief in the power of creative producing, and strives to make its members equally at home analyzing plays and financial statements.
"I am incredibly proud to have been a part of the inaugural Producers
Lab at Women's Project. What a network of talented people! To sit in a room every month and share everything from nitty gritty practical knowledge to our largest ambitions for the field, and then to get to put everything into practice and actually PRODUCE for Women's Project at the World Financial Center was an extraordinary and important experience for me. The Lab's potential is astounding! --Maria Goyanes, WP Lab 2006-2008, producer of WP's Girls Just Wanna Have Funds in 2007.
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Out of Time & Place: An Anthology of Plays by Members of the
