Complimentary Tickets to "Office Politics" for WBW Members!

Supporting theatrical work written, directed, and designed by women. In This Newsletter: June 15, 2015 COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO 'OFFICE POLITICS' FOR WORKS BY WOMEN MEMBERS TWO OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS EXCLUSIVE MEMBER BENEFIT FOR SAYONARA AT PAN ASIAN REP NEW MEMBER CORNER EVENTS OPENING THIS WEEK Hold On To Your Butts Hand Foot Fizzle Face Romeo & Juliet Men on Boats CLOSING THIS WEEK Office Politics New Country Hey Jude Nice Girl Complimentary Tickets to Office Politics for Works By Women Members! Office Politics written by Marcy Lovitch directed by Aimee Todoroff Closing this Saturday! Long View Theater June Havoc Theater 312 W. 36th St. New York, NY When a white male co-worker makes an off-the-cuff racially insensitive remark to his boss's black female assistant, what seems like a harmless joke snowballs, suddenly catapulting the ad sales office of a women's magazine into turmoil. Threats are made, loyalties tested and contrasting beliefs about power, race and class surface, resulting in an explosion of shocking reveals, lies and accusations, ultimately leaving their department in utter shreds. Email Works By Women by 6 PM tonight to receive complimentary tickets to any of these performances: Wed., 6/17, 7:30pm Thurs., 6/18, 7:30pm Fri, 6/19, 8pm Sat., 6/20, 3pm Sat., 6/20, 8pm GET TICKETS OPPORTUNITIES The Relentless Award The Relentless Award, established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman and his pursuit of truth in the theater, is the largest annual cash prize in American theater awarded to a playwright in recognition of a new play. What we are looking for: Plays that are challenging, Plays that exhibit fearlessness, Plays that are not mainstream, Plays that exude passion, Plays that are relentlessly truthful The American Playwriting Foundation encourages submissions by first time playwrights, women and playwrights of color. The author of the Relentless Award-winning play will receive $45,000, the option to have the winning play published by the Dramatists Play Service, and a week-long residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm, an artist residency program housed on a working organic farm in Brewster, New York. MORE INFO New Play Development Playwright Submissions The purpose of this play reading series is to develop new works which explore a new voice, expresses storytelling in an unconventional way, challenges both the artists as well as the audience to think outside of the box. The play may explore views on religion, race, gender, politics, social change, hunger, blindness or disability of any kind.  MORE INFO Exclusive Member Benefit Sayonara directed by Tisa Chang Pan Asian Repertory The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row 410 W. 42nd St. New York, NY July 5th - June 26th, 2015 Tisa Chang directs this re-imagining of the epic musical of US military in post-WWII Japan. This production highlights the all female Takarazuka dance theater and how compassion and love can heal prejudice despite the inevitable collision of two disparate, codified cultures.  Use Code TRSay02 for $46.25 Tickets (Usually $61) MEMBER CORNER In MEMBER CORNER, members of Works by Women can share productions they are working on which feature many women artists, but either have a run of less than 2 weeks or do not meet the 50/50 writer, director, design team Works by Women requires. If you would like your project to be included, please email  info@worksbywomen.org with the subject "Member Corner and Title of Your Show" by Monday at noon. Hand Foot Fizzle Face directed by Tara Ahmadinejad Piehole Jack 505 1/2 Waverly Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11238 June 17th - June 28th, 2015 Performance collective Piehole wakes up an expensive art-object and give it a workout in a surreal gymnasium of sound, video, dance, and sweat.  Inspired by an enigmatic art-book produced from an awkward one-off collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Jasper Johns, Piehole's Hand Foot Fizzle Face examines the self-defeating impulse to transcend ephemerality, in art and life.    GET TICKETS!  FIRST FIVE TICKETS AT EVERY SHOW ARE $10!  (USUALLY $15) Girls State Kickstarter Launch Party DOUBLE WIDE Bar & Southern Kitchen 505 E 12th St, NY, NY Monday, June 22nd - 2015 6:30-9:30 PM Join the makers of Girls State for a night of fun, friends, drink specials, and raffle prizes as they kick off our Kickstarter fundraiser! Great raffle prizes. Girls State is a new musical comedy television project based on the real life summer camp program run by the American Legion Auxiliary for rising high school seniors. In August, they'll be shooting a pilot presentation in Los Angeles.The project is led by a team of accomplished, emerging women filmmakers.