Feelin’ Fresh Festival ’26 – ’27
Feelin’ Fresh Festival 2026 – 2027
December 7, December 14, January 11
‘Tis the season for WP’s Feelin’ Fresh Festival, featuring work by the freshest femme playwrights around – no holiday schmaltz in sight, but there will be refreshments. All the readings start at 7pm at WP Theater. Admission is free but please RSVP!
The 49th Annual Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio
December 7, 2026
Written by May Treuhaft-Ali
Directed by Estefanía Fadul
Welcome to the largest gathering of twins and multiples in the world. Here in Twinsburg, you and your twin can meet thousands of others just like you. Through the Double Take Parade, Talented Twins Showcase, and the all-important Most Alike Competition, you and your soulmate will be closer than ever by the end of the weekend. This year’s theme is The Roaring Twinties, so don’t forget your matching costumes!
Run Time: tbd
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What’s Wrong With You
December 14, 2026
Written by Kate Benson
Directed by Rebecca Martínez
Get in the car. Get out on the road. Get there. Only to find out you are there. You did not leave you behind. What’s Wrong with You? is an interrogation of American ideas about relaxing, indulging, getting closer, and paying for the privilege.
Run Time: tbd
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Fireside Dances
January 11, 2027
Written by MJ Kaufman
Directed by Sarah Hughes
When a blizzard forces Berkeley freshman Mia to wait out the storm at a rural highway gas station in Southern Colorado, she’s forced to confront a past that she is both fleeing… and seeking out. As Mia shares family memories with store owner Moises to pass the time, another world creeps in– one of shadows, forgotten prayers, and secrets hiding right in plain sight. In Her Bones explores the complicated legacy of crypto-Judaism in the Southwest– illuminating an unlikely, true tale of secrecy, faith, fear, and how we pass on stories when written records are too dangerous to keep.
Run Time: tbd
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May Treuhaft-Ali
May Treuhaft-Ali (Playwright) is a playwright and dramaturg from Queens, New York. She is a member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre and a New Dramatists resident. She has participated in the 2050 Artistic Fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop, the Van Lier Fellowship at Rattlestick Theater, and writers’ groups at Page 73, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, and the Playwrights Realm. Her plays have been produced at Barrington Stage Company and Boston Court Pasadena, and developed with JACK, MCC Theater, Cape Cod Theatre Project and The Jungle. She has received commissions from Cleveland Play House, South Coast Repertory, and Barrington Stage.
Estefanía Fadul
Estefanía Fadul (Director) is a Brooklyn-based Colombian-American director, and co-Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC. Recent projects include the world premieres of A Bodega Princess Remembers by Iraisa Ann Reilly (EST/Lortel/LPC), Eva Luna by Caridad Svich (Repertorio Español), The Garbologists by Lindsay Joelle (Philadelphia Theater Company), and Carla’s Quince created with The Voting Project (Drama League Award nomination). Estefanía has developed new work off-Broadway and regionally at the Public Theater, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Playwrights’ Realm, NYTW, MTC, Chautauqua, Audible, Goodspeed, Houses on the Moon, Juilliard, and more. She is the inaugural recipient of New York Stage and Film’s Pfaelzer Award, and an alumna of directing fellowships at Clubbed Thumb, the Drama League, O’Neill/NNPN, Williamstown, and Repertorio Español. She serves on the Drama League’s Board of Directors, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and SDC.
Kate Benson
Kate Benson (Playwright) is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her plays include A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes (New Georges and WP Theater), [Porto] (Bushwick Starr and WP Theater), Super Magic Wild Forest, Where Are We Going?, What We’d Really Like is to Be Together, NightWoodsHole,and What’s Wrong with You?. Residencies include the Working Farm at Space on Ryder Farm, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, and the New Georges Jam. She is a recipient of an OBIE award (Special Citation for Collaboration for Great Lakes) and the Creative Spirit Award. She has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College. Performances include Ulysses (the Public Theater); Seagull (Skirball); Fondly, Collette Richland (NYTW) ; Good Person of Szechuan (LaMama and the Public Theater), Nomads (Incubator), I Will Never Love Again (Bushwick Starr), and Variations on the Main (Jack).
Rebecca Martinez
Rebecca Martinez (Director) is a New York City based director who works on new plays and musicals and uses adaptation to envision classic plays through a contemporary lens. She currently serves as the BOLD Associate Artistic Director at WP Theater. Upcoming: Creation Story – Notch Theater; Book Club Play – Syracuse Stage. At WP: Dirty Laundry (WP Theater /Spark Theatricals), Bite Me (WP Theater /Colt Coeur), Sancocho (Latinx Playwrights Circle /Sol Project /WP Theater). Other recent projects: Canciones – (Radical Evolution /LPC /Sol Project / Boundless), Intríngulis (written and performed by Carlo Albán), Public Theater’s Mobile Unit: Much Ado About Nothing; The Comedy of Errors (also co-adapter; Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Adaptation, LATA Awards for Outstanding Adaptation and Theatrical Concept). Martínez has directed and developed new work with Rattlestick, Signature Theatre, the O’Neill, Latinx Playwrights Circle, the Sol Project, NAMT, INTAR, Working Theater, The Playwrights Realm, among others. Affiliations: member of the Obie Award-winning Sol Project Collective, WP Directors Lab Alum, 2021 TCG Rising Leaders of Color, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, New Georges Affiliated Artist, Drama League Directing Fellow, member of SDC. Commissions: Artist-in-Residence (Radical Evolution), SEED Directing Commission (Public Theater) Awards: Colorado Henry Award for Directing; four Portland, Oregon Drammy Awards; Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists.
MJ Kaufman
MJ Kaufman (Playwright)(he/they) is a writer of plays, tv, film and fiction. Their work centers queer and trans characters, explores themes of desire, death, kinship, gender and power, and often takes place in forests. Their plays have been seen at the Mark Taper Forum, the Public Theater, WP Theater, Tectonic Theater Project National Asian American Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Williamstown Theater Festival, InterAct, and theaters and schools around the country as well as in Russia and Australia. MJ has received funding from The NYC Mayor’s Office, a Helen Merrill Emerging Writers Award and residencies at the New Museum, MacDowell Colony and New Dramatists. MJ’s film THERAPIST CRUSH won the Audience Choice Best Film Award at TRANSlations film festival. They recently completed the Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship at the Center for Fiction and are at work on a novel about trans fatherhood. MJ co-founded Trans Lab Fellowship, a program to support emerging transgender theater artists which ran from 2018-2022 and now serves on the board of Breaking the Binary Theatre. MJ teaches in the Dramatic Writing Department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. They are an alum of the WP Theater Lab.
Sarah Hughes
Sarah Hughes (Director) is a director of new plays, radical adaptations, and devised work. Recent: A WOMAN AMONG WOMEN by Julia May Jonas (LCT3/New Georges and The Bushwick Starr, NYT Critics Pick), JEWISH PLOT by Torrey Townsend (The Brick/Luke Katler Productions), GALATEA by MJ Kaufman (Brooklyn Bridge Park), DAPHNE by Renae Simone Jarrett (LCT3, Obie for design). Sarah is an Associated Artist of New Georges and Target Margin Theater, worked for many years with Elevator Repair Service, and has taught at Dartmouth College, Purchase College, and NYU. As Director of Artistic Programming at Theatre Row, she created the Kitchen Sink Residency for new work development. Drama League/NYSAF Beatrice Terry Resident, O’Neill National Directors Fellow, WP Theater Lab Member, Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, Mercury Store Lead Artist, SDCF Barbara Whitman Award Finalist. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and two young children. (Headshot by Jose Alvarado Jr.)
