Women's Work Festival

Welcome to the Women’s Work Festival

Championing underrepresented voices in theatre since 2006, WWF is a St. John’s–based festival dedicated to the development and celebration of new works by women and marginalized genders. This website is your hub for festival updates, artist features, event highlights, and ways to get involved.

upcoming public readings:
The seedlings project

As part of our lead-up to our 20th anniversary in 2026, Women's Work Festival launched its inaugural playwriting unit, The Seedlings Project. Aimed to cultivate new voices and support the development of original plays by IBPOC women and gender diverse artists. 🌱

Since May 2025, the inaugural cohort – Lydia Makaga, Thiviya Kana, Heather Rumbolt, Ijeoma Ezeike, and Judith – have worked with Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre’s Santiago Guzman to develop their plays.

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CALL FOR MENTEES: BEAUTY BEHIND THE NORMS DESIGN WORKSHOP

For the first time in the Women’s Work Festival's history, we are hosting a Design Workshop for one of the plays previously developed at our Festival. For the 20th Annual Women's Work Festival, Nicole Obiodiaka's “Beauty Behind the Norms” was chosen to be the first participant of this program.

To support the creation of Obiodiaka's vision of “Beauty Behind the Norms”, we are selecting 4 women and gender diverse artists as design mentees.

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2025 Holiday Auction

The Women’s Work Festival is hosting an online silent auction to raise funds to support our year-round programming dedicated to the development and celebration of theatre by women and artists of other marginalized genders.

Items will be posted on the WWF Facebook page and sent in the WWF newsletter. Bidding will be open from November 27th to December 14th. – just in time for the holidays! This year, prizes include everything from one-of-a-kind visual artwork, to a TV, to a beginner guitar lesson. Make sure to mark your calendars! 🖼📺🎸

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TEA & THRIFT!

Join the Women’s Work Festival team during our December play readings for an evening of tasty snacks, affordable holiday shopping, and live music by Ana Luísa Ramos.

All of the second-hand clothing has been donated by WWF community members – everything is clean, quality, and under $15. This is the perfect opportunity to have a warm drink with friends, find gifts for your loved ones for a great price, and do it all without hurting the planet. Win-win-win!

Tea and snacks will be served, and shopping will be open from 4 to 6 pm on December 14th, at the Point Armour Room of The Lantern (35 Barnes Road, St. John’s). We accept cash or tap, and all proceeds will support our 20th Annual Women's Work Festival.

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HOLIDAY OFFICE CLOSURE

The Women’s Work Festival team will be taking a break over the winter holidays; our office will be closed from December 22nd to January 5th. If you’ve been meaning to get in touch with us, please do so ASAP! Otherwise, you’ll hear from us in the new year.

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