Events

We regularly meet for Gatherings and other events involving Micro-Reads, organize LAFPI Nights at the theater, and have other plans up our collective sleeves.

Huzzahs to you intrepid souls who’ve jumped online the past few years, including the artists who shared their talents in March for our 12th (Virtual) Micro-Read Hook-Up: “A Light Ahead.” And so much fun at our Fringe Femmes Mixer during the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival in June.

Next, join us on Sunday, September 17, 6pm for our first LAFPI Night at Theatre of NOTE: Kill Shelter by Ashley Rose Wellman, directed by Shaina Rosenthal.

KILL SHELTER is about weird compassion, questionable decisions, the gray areas of love, and choice. It’s uniquely compelling and not to be missed.

For this night, we’ve got special $20 tix plus mingling with the playwright and company members ($5 wine!) & Micro-Reads!

After the play, we’ll hang out for a bit and get to know Ashley and NOTE artists, then go back onstage for Micro-Reads from LAFPI Playwrights – first 10 ticket buyers are guaranteed a slot – read by actors from KILL SHELTER and the company. (So they’ll get to know your work, as well!)

Click Here to Grab tix* using code KSLAFPI

After you confirm your tickets, send your confirmation code and your Micro-Read to [email protected]. (We’ll definitely have room for 10, and maybe can sneak in a few more!)

- Click Here for Micro-Read Guidelines
- Click Here for Play Info
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Questions? Email [email protected]

Do plan on being there on the 17th, and invite your friends & partners to fill the house and deliver the message, “It Pays to Produce Plays By Women!”

* If you can’t make on the LAFPI Night, code KSLAFPI is good for any performance in the run except closing night!

Trigger warning: This play deals with themes of abortion, and the depiction of animal euthanasia, and its content may be upsetting to some viewers

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2023 was a fantastic year for us at the Fringe – so great to meet so many of the HFF23 Fringe Femmes at our Virtual Happy Hour in May, and we were blown away by all of the Women on the Fringe this year – looking forward to 2024!

Questions or ideas? Contact [email protected]

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 blast!

Such a fantastic night at the Geffen Playhouse in June, 2023! Hanging out and catching up with fellow female playwrights before the powerful performance of Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop,” directed by Patricia McGregor.

We were glad to be able to gather and be back in person at the Geffen in November, 2021 before the opening of PARADISE BLUE by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Stori Ayers.

Thank you to those of you who joined us in early March, 2020 (one of our last nights out at the theater pre-pandemic!) for LAFPI Night at the Geffen Playhouse – MAN OF GOD by Anna Moench, directed by Maggie Burrows.

Great fun in August, 2019 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!

In 2019, 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 2014-2015 at our LAFPI Nights at Pasadena Playhouse, bringing together groups of over 75 for Vanessa Claire Stewart’s STONEFACE, Diana Son’s STOP KISS & REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES by Josefina López – fantastic nights that included Micro-Reads read by the casts! 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.