Past Programming
2024-2025 Cycle
The Match
- Poison Tree by Jordan Elizabeth
- Hysteria Chorea (or Dance Madness) by Jessica Moss
- Cowgirl Katarungan’s Recipe for Adobo by A.J. Layague
- Meta, una telenovela, quizás by Faith Amrapali Williams
- Drooga by Joelle Zazz
- Fyre Fest was so fun!!! By Catherine Weingarten
- Stuck in Honolulu by Lee Cataluna
- Merely Players by Danielle E. Moore
- A Hot Day in Summer ‘07 by Julissa Mishay Norment
- One Fish, Two Fish by Jack Wolfram
Apprentice Circle
The Apprentice Circle is a cohort of emerging dramaturgs who will receive hands-on dramaturgical opportunities and observation, mentorship, and more over the course of a year with the Digital Development Project.
Participating dramaturgs include: Allyson Broyles, Grace Hazen, Ross Milstead, Emma McGee, Avi, Juliet Chia, Cori Lang, Natasha (Tash) Hawkins, and Sarah E. Bedwell.
Playshare Evolution
- Cowgirl Katarungan’s Recipe for Adobo
- Playwright: AJ Layague
- Director: Christina Casano
- Dramaturg: Suzi Elnaggar
- Cast: Isabel Lee Roden, Alfred Speilmann, Brandon English, Giovanni Ortega, Melissa Bautista, Dawn Angelicca Barcelona
- Stuck in Honolulu
- Playwright: Lee Cataluna
- Director: Kemi King
- Dramaturg: Emma Bilderback
- Cast: Lily Celesteen, Will Kahele, Kyle Camay
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.