Past Programming
2023-2024 Cycle
The Match
- RAINDROP CLEAN by Kelsey Austin
- Freedom’s Fortress by Drew Barker
- Ok white women by Sarah Cho
- Secrets of the Birds by Lynda Crawford
- Chilicothe, OH by Alex Freeman
- Song of Angels by Emilia Getzinger
- Lilith by Paige Goodwin
- How to Lose a Sleep Paralysis Demon in 10 Days by Parker Davis Gray
- Off White; Or the Arab House Party Play by Alyssa Haddad Chin
- My Wheel Is a Circle Because It Is Round by Joshua Kahn
- YELLA JACK by Donna Latham
- Death and the Girl by Giulianna Marchese
- they’re just places. By AJ Maryn
- Cry Hard by Calder Meis
- Renovation by John Minigan
- Chuan & Eve by Lyra Nalan
- Vacancies by Miles Orduña
- Austin & Huntsville by Straton Rushing
- Safe Places to Leave Your Heart by Emma Swain
- Majnun by Layli Veach
Playshare Evolution
- Circles & Walls
- Playwright: Straton Rushing
- Director: Arly Rubens
- Dramaturg: Caili Crow
- Cast: Jamie Saunders, Riya Ramaswamy, Nicholas Haas, Makenna Van Raalte, Gina Nicole Brown
- Renovation
- Playwright: John Minigan
- Director: Kemi King
- Dramaturg: Suzi Elnaggar
- Cast: Alfred Jay Speilman, Jacopo Constantini, Carole Real, Joseph Tully, Angela Chew
- Chuan & Eve
- Playwright: Lyra Nalan
- Director: Emma Bilderback
- Dramaturg: Ally Varitek
- Cast: Alfred Spielmann, Ashley Nicole Martin, Yu Hin Bryan Chan, Angela Chew
- Majnun
- Playwright: Layli Rohani
- Director: Kemi King
- Dramaturg: Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
- Cast: Anya Bella Veach, Farbod Farrokh, Ali Azizian, Alishah Bhamani, Nicholas Haas, Lilly Heidari
SheLA
SheLA Arts is a summer theater festival that fights for gender equity in the entertainment industry, and is a program of the nonprofit SheNYC Arts. Alongside sister festivals, SheNYC, SheATL, and SheDFW, we focus most of our support on the original creators — playwrights, composers, and producers — to get more women, trans, and non-binary people in these roles that decide which stories get told. Each spring we select plays based off of a nationwide call for submissions, and spend the late spring and summer giving support to the development and production processes.
This year, SheLA is grateful to collaborate with the Digital Development Project (DDP), who are members of Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of The Americas (LMDA), to better our support for the script development process of each selected play. Through this partnership, DDP will pair each playwright with a dramaturg to work together to develop the script with the goal of getting it production-ready.
Participating dramaturgs include: Emma Bilderback, Caili Crow, Suzi Elnaggar, Jihye Kim, Kemi King, Arly Rubens, and Ally Varitek.