While we’ve shifted gears recently, we regularly meet quarterly for LAFPI Gatherings + Micro-Reads, organize events like LAFPI Nights at the theater, and have other plans up our collective sleeves.
Huzzahs to you intrepid souls who jumped online for our SWAN Day Los Angeles 2020 Celebration on March 28, and our Micro-Read Hook-Ups: “Next Phase” on May 31 and “Opening Up” on Sunday, July 12.
Mark Your Calendars! Our 3rd (Virtual) Micro-Read (Mini) Hook-Up is Sunday, September 13 at 6pm.
Writers and Actors: Stay tuned for the announcement soon about the theme for this round, and submission windows. Note that we’ll be holding space for BIPOC artists, so please spread the word!
Playwrights and Actors will be working with a team of Women+ Directors, and it’ll play out something like this (with time built in for connections over BYO cocktails 😉 ):
- 4:20pm – Micro-Read Zoom Room Opens
- 4:30-5:30pm – 2 Rounds of Rehearsal Sessions in Break-Out Rooms
- 5:30-6:00pm – Introductions
- 6:00pm – Micro-Reads Begin!
Thanks to those of you who joined us in early March (one of our last nights out at the theater this year!) for LAFPI Night at the Geffen Playhouse – MAN OF GOD by Anna Moench, directed by Maggie Burrows.
And in 2019, it was great to see so many of you in December for our 5th Annual Holiday Micro-Read Hook-Up, hosted by Theatre Planners at Lounge Theatre; our Fall LAFPI Gathering at The Broadwater (a huge thank you to Sacred Fools Theater Company) ; and #HFF19 Fringe Femmes Gathering in May at Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles! Thanks also to our friends at A Noise Within for a fantastic celebration of SWAN Day Los Angeles 2019 in March as part of ANW’s new Noise NOW initiative!
Questions or ideas about what’s next? Contact lafpi.updates@gmail.com
Many thanks to Joyce Mehess and crew at Samuel French for opening up the bookshop’s fabulous Green Room for food, wine, connections and Micro-Reads, giving us a home from 2013-2018!
LAFPI Nights at the theater are a great success!
Thanks to all of you who joined us in August for our first LAFPI Night at the Odyssey: FEFU AND HER FRIENDS. It was great to have a chance to see this ground-breaking feminist work by María Irene Fornés, directed by Denise Blasor, in good femme company!
Many thanks to the Odyssey, as well – we hope this is the first of many nights at this LA theater, now celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
And we can’t thank the Geffen Playhouse enough for continuing to open its doors to all things femme-theater!
We had a fantastic time at LAFPI Night at the Geffen Playhouse: The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess, directed by Kimberly Senior.
LAFPI Night at the Geffen for Inda Craig-Galván’s Black Super Hero Magic Mama, directed by Robert O’Hara was an amazing evening, and then some.
In October, 2018, our LAFPI Night at Garry Marshall Theatre for Real Women Have Curves by Josefina López, directed by Mary Jo DuPrey, gave us the chance to celebrate GMT’s production, which had an all-women design team!
And Instigators gathered in 2018 for three LAFPI Nights at the Geffen:
in September for THE CAKE by Bekah Brunstetter, directed by Jennifer Chambers;
in June for SKELETON CREW by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Patricia McGregor; and 
in February for IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok, directed by Tyne Rafaeli
It was terrific to bring together women playwrights, women directors and audience members before the show, enjoy the performance, and in the case of IRONBOUND, stay for a talkback with the show’s artists.
We were proud to be East West Players’ Community Partner in 2016 for their production of Leah Nanako Winkler’s KENTUCKY, directed by Deena Selenow; LAFPI Night at EWP included a fab female playwright/director mixer.
And we had a blast in 2015 at our LAFPI Nights at Pasadena Playhouse, bringing together groups of up to 77 for Vanessa Claire Stewart’s STONEFACE, Diana Son’s STOP KISS & REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES by Josefina López. Thanks so much to Seema Sueko and her crew for making these happen.
Do you have any ideas for companies or productions to approach? We want to connect with theatermakers, share our work, and fill the house to deliver the message, “It Pays to Produce Plays by Women!”
For more info go to our Facebook Page, check us out on Instagram and join our Twitter conversation.
THANKS! to those of you who joined us in 2013/14 for Tactical Reads, produced by The Vagrancy, to Atwater Crossing for kicking the program off, and to Rogue Machine Theatre, Son of Semele Ensemble, The Working Stage, Park La Brea, studio/stage & Theatre Asylum for giving shelter.
Thanks to Gethsemane Church for being such gracious hosts in 2012! 
