The Arizona Women's Theatre Company is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to producing work that reveals women's lives and documents women's experiences.  We are committed to nurturing women artists and providing an innovative forum for women's voices.  Whether this be in the production of recently published plays by women or our own Pandora Festival, which celebrates unpublished stories by Arizona women writers, we believe strongly in our mission to have women's voices heard.We are the only theatre in Arizona to focus on women playwrights and directors. Founded in 2003, we have produced four successful seasons of contemporary, provocative, thought-provoking plays written by women. We’ve tackled thorny issues that have resonated with our audience: women and immigration, civil rights and social justice, aging mothers cared for by daughters, women as victims of war, and women struggling to be well, both mentally and physically.

We’ve presented plays by writers whose voices don’t often get heard because, as the Dramatist Guild reported in 2006, only 17% of plays produced in the U.S. are written by women.  But, we know from last season’s Pandora Festival that production doesn’t begin to tell the story of women and writing.

The May 2007 Pandora Festival was an unqualified success with 16 new plays by Arizona women being given a reading before audiences over two very full weekends.  This project was a grass roots effort to give women a chance to have their voices heard.  And, it was so well received by audiences and writers that we will be repeating Pandora, May 16 to June 1, 2008.

In addition to Pandora, highlights of the 2007-8 season include Be Aggressive by Annie Weisman; Maybe Baby, It's You by the writing team of Shanian and Simpson, in conjunction with Canyon Moon Theatre Company; and The Sweetest Swing in Baseball by Rebecca Gilman.  Although we are supported in part by grants from the Scottsdale Cultural Commission and The Arizona Commission on the Arts with funds from the state of Aizona and the National Endowment for the Arts, we need your help to keep producing work for the sake of women voices.

Together we can make sure that women’s voices get heard—and that we all get to learn, laugh, and cry while seeing great new stories come to life in the theatre.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ilene Gordon, President

Zoe Yeoman, President Elect

Monica Long Ross, Vice President

Deborah Carrick, Treasurer

Devorah Medwin , Secretary

Meah Martin

Marilee Robertson

Jan Rothman Sickler

email us at info@azwtc.org, phone 480 607 7107, or write to us:

MAILING ADDRESS

PMB 272, 7904 E. Chaparral Road, Suite A110
Scottsdale, AZ  85250