the 14th Annual Women’s Work Festival
The Women’s Work Festival (WWF), is proud to kick off their fourteenth year! An international festival of plays-in-progress featuring readings, musical performances, workshops, panels, and special events promoting work by, for, and about women (self-identified) from Monday, March 9th to Friday, March 13th, 2020. Each reading features a special opening performance and a short talkback with the playwright followed by a small reception. Admission to the readings is free but donations are gratefully accepted on behalf of the St. John’s Women’s Centre.
Our festival has a history of success in helping to launch playwrights from the page to the stage. In our first 10 years, there were 21 professional productions of 17 WWF plays from new, emerging, and established playwrights. And we wish their same success onto this year's playwrights.
The festival will present readings of new plays by Karen Monie, Laura Maria Censabella, Mallory Fisher, Kate Felix, Prajwala Dixit, and Natalie Meisner. We also have Nicole Leona Smith of Sonderlust returning to the festival to guide our morning storytelling discussions. As we do every year, we will end our festival with a performance walk that will feature emerging and established artists in pop-up performances in downtown St. John’s businesses to celebrate the talent of women in our arts and business community as part of International Women’s Week.
WWF was founded by RCA Theatre Company, She Said Yes!, White Rooster Theatre. The festival gratefully acknowledges support from Canadian Heritage’s BCAH Fund and Arts NL for their continuing, generous support of our festival in 2020. 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 2020 sponsors!
We welcome new sponsors and partners for our Festival. Please contact us if you'd like to get involved!
Our festival has a history of success in helping to launch playwrights from the page to the stage. In our first 10 years, there were 21 professional productions of 17 WWF plays from new, emerging, and established playwrights. And we wish their same success onto this year's playwrights.
The festival will present readings of new plays by Karen Monie, Laura Maria Censabella, Mallory Fisher, Kate Felix, Prajwala Dixit, and Natalie Meisner. We also have Nicole Leona Smith of Sonderlust returning to the festival to guide our morning storytelling discussions. As we do every year, we will end our festival with a performance walk that will feature emerging and established artists in pop-up performances in downtown St. John’s businesses to celebrate the talent of women in our arts and business community as part of International Women’s Week.
WWF was founded by RCA Theatre Company, She Said Yes!, White Rooster Theatre. The festival gratefully acknowledges support from Canadian Heritage’s BCAH Fund and Arts NL for their continuing, generous support of our festival in 2020. 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 2020 sponsors!
We welcome new sponsors and partners for our Festival. Please contact us if you'd like to get involved!
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