Women’s Project Announces 2011-2012 Season

The Women’s Project, the 34-year-old non-profit theater dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, has announced its 2011-2012 season.

First up will be Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar. (October 13-November 20), directed by Rebecca Taichman. The play concerns a 16-year-old, inner-city girl’s struggle between the pregnancy pact she made with her friends and her need to carve out a life beyond the only one she knows.

Next up will be Catherine Trieschmann’s How The World Began (December 28-January 29), directed by Daniella Topol. In the play, a high school biology teacher leaves Manhattan for a job in rural Kansas, and is unprepared for the firestorm after she makes an off-handed comment about the origins of the universe.

The season will conclude with We Play For The Gods, conceived and created by the 16 artists of the WP Lab, and presented June of 2012. It is inspired by the words of the late Ellen Stewart, “We play for the gods and in return the gods play for us.” The LAB artists are: Charity Ballard, Alexandra Collier, Andrea Kuchlewska, Dominique Morisseau, Kristen Palmer, Melisa Tien, Stefanie Zadravec (playwrights); Tea Alagic, Jessi D. Hill, Sarah Rasmussen, Mia Rovegno, Nicole A. Watson (directors); and Elizabeth R. English, Manda Martin, Roberta Pereira, Stephanie Ybarra (producers).

The first two productions will be presented at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street. The venue for the third show will be announced at a later date.

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