About Women's Work Festival
The Women's Work Festival (WWF) celebrates creators. We are a festival of plays-in-progress. Our week-long event features readings, music performances, workshops, panels, and special events promoting work by, for, and about women. Our festival is intersectional and proudly includes the work of women and other marginalized genders.
Cast of Factory Girls by Sharon King-Campbell with dramaturgy by Bernardine Ann Teráz Stapleton.
The Women’s Work Festival is proven in its aim to aid female-identifying playwrights in getting their work produced professionally.
Upcoming, Catherine Banks’ The Mountain and the Valley is slated for production in Summer 2024. Our most recent production was Marie Pike’s The Heart Play which was read at the festival in 2023, then went on to production later that year and remounted in early 2024. Happy Anniversary by Vanessa Cardoso-Whelan was produced in 2023. Mallory Clarke’s motherskin was mounted in 2022, Mill Girls by Bernardine Stapleton and Nicole Smith was produced in 2021. Joanne Miller’s Habit of Murder (announced its third production), Lois Brown’s three plays- Sex the Rules of, Drinking Again, and When the Angel of Death… (Best Production 2016, The Overcast People’s Choice), Shannon Bramer’s three plays Monarita (Best Ensemble, Toronto Fringe, 2011), The Collectors, and The Hungriest Woman in the World (two productions); Kingdom by Meghan Greeley (produced for the second time in 2016), Andrea Dymond’s Fault Lines, Claudia Burnett’s Witches Vanish, Sara Tilley’s The Incomplete Herstory of Women…, Natasha McLellan's Ms Right Now, Wanda Graham’s Kill Zone, and Florence Button’s Connecting Rooms, Amy Anthony's Sweets, as well as plays by Agnes Walsh & Jenna Turk have all been produced following this festival. Eva Crocker’s play was adapted into a novel, and Emily Bridger’s two scripts Movin’ On and Little Orphans went on to be adapted into films. Many plays have been published after their initial production.
So far, the Women’s Work Festival has developed over 67 new plays by both emerging and established playwrights, with nearly half of them going on to receive full professional productions. From scripts, and casting, to workshops, all of our events are programmed to showcase and share new perspectives, diverse cultures, ages, and races.
Upcoming, Catherine Banks’ The Mountain and the Valley is slated for production in Summer 2024. Our most recent production was Marie Pike’s The Heart Play which was read at the festival in 2023, then went on to production later that year and remounted in early 2024. Happy Anniversary by Vanessa Cardoso-Whelan was produced in 2023. Mallory Clarke’s motherskin was mounted in 2022, Mill Girls by Bernardine Stapleton and Nicole Smith was produced in 2021. Joanne Miller’s Habit of Murder (announced its third production), Lois Brown’s three plays- Sex the Rules of, Drinking Again, and When the Angel of Death… (Best Production 2016, The Overcast People’s Choice), Shannon Bramer’s three plays Monarita (Best Ensemble, Toronto Fringe, 2011), The Collectors, and The Hungriest Woman in the World (two productions); Kingdom by Meghan Greeley (produced for the second time in 2016), Andrea Dymond’s Fault Lines, Claudia Burnett’s Witches Vanish, Sara Tilley’s The Incomplete Herstory of Women…, Natasha McLellan's Ms Right Now, Wanda Graham’s Kill Zone, and Florence Button’s Connecting Rooms, Amy Anthony's Sweets, as well as plays by Agnes Walsh & Jenna Turk have all been produced following this festival. Eva Crocker’s play was adapted into a novel, and Emily Bridger’s two scripts Movin’ On and Little Orphans went on to be adapted into films. Many plays have been published after their initial production.
So far, the Women’s Work Festival has developed over 67 new plays by both emerging and established playwrights, with nearly half of them going on to receive full professional productions. From scripts, and casting, to workshops, all of our events are programmed to showcase and share new perspectives, diverse cultures, ages, and races.
WWF was founded by RCA Theatre Company, She Said Yes!, White Rooster Theatre. The festival gratefully acknowledges support from Arts NL for their continuing, generous support of our festival in 2024. We are delighted to have the long-term support of RCA Theatre, support from the City of St. John’s, The Playwrights Guild of Canada, and our 2024 sponsors!
We would also like to thank all of our incredible volunteers and donors over the years, without whom this festival would not be possible.
We welcome new sponsors and partners for our Festival. Please contact us if you'd like to get involved!
We would also like to thank all of our incredible volunteers and donors over the years, without whom this festival would not be possible.
We welcome new sponsors and partners for our Festival. Please contact us if you'd like to get involved!
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