Presented by Free Association Theatre with Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, hosted by City Garage Theatre. It’s TODAY — SWAN Day Action Fest! Come on out and celebrate with us! Bring some pages and sign up for the micro-reads. Calling all LA female playwrights (and screenwriters): Let’s read your work! Bring 1 page for our … Continue reading Happy Support Women Artists Now Day!
We love it: Women making things happen. And we’re now adding the Curtis Theatre in the City of Brea and Project La Femme to our list of thumbs-up-theatermakers. The two OC organizations are teaming up to produce the first Page to Stage Playwrights Festival… with an all female line-up. What’s even more exciting to us … Continue reading The FPI Files: Femme Voices Speaking Up in the OC, Page to Stage
by Laura Shamas “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues….”― George Orwell, Why I Write This election year, I’m concerned about the erosion of women’s rights on a number of fronts; that’s why I’m participating as a playwright in the Reproductive Freedom Festival on … Continue reading March 20: The Reproductive Freedom Festival
Anyone is welcome to join us at our LAFPI Gatherings and other events… if you’re a writer who identifies as female, bring 1 page of your work for our Micro-Reads! What are Micro-Reads? We’ve been doing these since our 1st Gathering at Samuel French: quick, fun, informal reads of a page pulled out of a … Continue reading Micro-Reads
by Tiffany Antone Hello Lady Playwrights! What great timing to be called to the LAFPI blog just as I’ve released the Little Black Dress INK submission guidelines for our 2015 ONSTAGE Project. Some of you may remember a lot of cross-promotion between LBDI and the LAFPI as we worked together on that very awesome SWAN … Continue reading Send me some plays!
Today 10:30 am – 4:30 pm SWAN Day Action Fest Samuel French Theatre and Film Bookshop 7623 Sunset Bl (just east of Fairfax) in Hollywood (at Stanley) Are you there yet?
March is Women’s History Month. Today, March 6, is the actual anniversary date for LA FPI (Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative). Saturday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Saturday, March 29, is SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now). What are you doing to celebrate Women this month…? Join us at the LAFPI SWAN Day … Continue reading Celebrate Women…
Robin Byrd weighs in: 1. How did you become a playwright? What brought you to theater? I guess I sort of evolved into one. I started telling stories at three and a three year old usually acts out a story so it’s theatrical by nature of the storyteller. I had regular story time for my … Continue reading Interview with Playwright Robin Byrd
Videos by award-winning documentary filmmaker Sue May LA FPI & Little Black Dress INK present SWAN Day Action Fest 2014 (slideshow) from Simplexity MediaWorks™ on Vimeo. “Victorian Courting & Zombies” by by Susan Sassi at the Hollywood Fringe, June 2014 Click Here for Sue’s “Persons of Interest” Video Blogpost. “Fancy: The Southern Gothic Camp Parable” … Continue reading LA FPI Videos
Click Here to see past LAFPI eBlasts – news, updates, opps and more. Click Here for So Cal LORT Numbers, stats on female artists and more recently, artists of color. Click Here for The Facts: a few gender parity statistics collected from over the last century. Click Here for a copy of The Count 3.0 … Continue reading News
