Women and Theatre

For more information about the Women and Theatre Program, click here to send an e-mail to the WTP leadership.

The Women and Theatre Program is a self-incorporated division of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Founded in 1974, our mission is to bring theater professionals together with academics and activists. In the years since our inception, WTP has sponsored panels and activities at ATHE’s annual conference. In 1980, WTP began holding its own annual pre-ATHE conference. WTP conferences feature panels, informal discussions, workshops, and performances as a means to foster both research and production of feminist theatre activities. WTP conference topics have included the intersection of theory and performance, multicultural theatre, lesbian theory and theatre, and many related aspects of feminist inquiry. In addition to its conference activity, WTP, in collaboration with ATHE, sponsors the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. This award is one of the few nationally recognized competitions for women playwrights and attracts over 200 submissions annually. The award-winning play is given a reading at ATHE, and an annotated list of the top contenders is circulated to the WTP members and over 400 regional theaters. The continuing goal of WTP is to enable feminist inquiry and to provide opportunities for discussion between those who teach, perform, and theorize about feminism, theatre, and performance.

Officers

Ashley Lucas
UNC Chapel Hill
lucasa@email.unc.edu

Vice President of Outreach and Development
Emily Klein
Carnegie Mellon
ebklein@andrew.cmu.edu

Treasurer
Aileen Hendricks
Southern University
aileen4474@bellsouth.net

ATHE Conference Coordinator
Erica Stevens Abbitt
University of Windsor
esabbitt@uwindsor.ca

Graduate Student Representative
Diana Looser
Cornell University
dl296@cornell.edu

Jane Chambers Coordinators
Priscilla Page
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
New World Theatre
pmpage@theater.umass.edu

Maya Roth
Georgetown University
mer46@georgetown.edu

Members-At-Large
Robin Bernstein
Harvard University
rbernst@fas.harvard.edu

rmalague@english.upenn.edu

Jisha Menon
University of British Columbia
jmenon@interchange.ubc.ca 

Activist Member-at-Large
Susan Pastika
University of California, Davis
scpastika@ucdavis.edu

Artist Member-at-Large
Joan Lipkin
That Uppity Theatre Co.
JLipkin@aol.com

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