Partners
viBe THEATER EXPERIENCE PAGES TO STAGES
Following up on their collaboration during last season’s Where We Stand in which five young Women+ from viBe Theater Experience – an organization providing girls, young women, and nonbinary youth of color (aged 13-25) in New York City with free, high quality artistic, leadership and academic opportunities – worked alongside the creative and production team and oversaw the show’s culminating vote, WP will continue and evolve their partnership. Their new initiative with the company, viBe Pages to Stages, will bring together teen writers with theater professionals from WP’s community of designers, writers, directors and producers to offer one-on-one feedback to their new plays and an in-depth look into the process of developing new work for professional production.
DOMESTIC PARTNERS
WP Theater’s Domestic Partner Program provides a home to like-minded organizations developing and producing work by female and trans theater artists. Each year, WP Theater welcomes Domestic Partner companies into residency in its offices, rehearsal room, and theater, offering them reduced-cost rehearsal and performance space as well as artistic, marketing, ticketing and institutional support, and presenting their work to WP audiences.
MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY
WP Domestic Partner, Monica Bill Barnes & Company (co-producers on One Night Only, which ran as part of WP’s 2018-19 Season) operated out of WP’s theater and offices throughout the summer in a collaboration with sixteen female dancers from New York City’s Hunter College to create their new project, Keep Moving. Using choreography and interviews from their cancelled American Dance Festival premiere of The Running Show, Monica Bill Barnes and Robert Saenz de Viteri created a series of dances and stories to be shared online. The work was presented in chapters of varying length and media as the company questions how a woman who works so hard to keep moving finds a way forward while we are all on pause.
TRANS LAB
WP will continue its support for Trans Lab Fellowship, a year-long program devoted to supporting the development of early career and emerging trans, gender nonconforming, and non-binary theater artists. Supported by WP Theater and the Public Theater, the Trans Lab provides its artists with community, professional development, connections to an expanded network, support developing a new work, and a showcase for the work they develop. Applications for the 2019 Lab, which will support six trans or gender nonconforming artists, are open until September 14th here