Meganne George Women's Work Short Play Festival (2025)

Join us for the 17th Annual Women’s Work
Short Play Festival.

Named after MEGANNE GEORGE, who served as Resident Production Designer at NPTC for 19 years and was instrumental in creating its structure and design elements, the festival presents original short plays developed in NPTC’s Women Work LAB which takes writers from the first impulse for their plays to a rehearsed and staged performance for live audiences, all within six months. There is no other program of its kind in New York City.

TICKETS: $25 /$20 students and seniors (65+) w/ID; TDF accepted for select performances; FESTIVAL PASS $40 (both programs)

program A includes:

Customs by Erin moughon, directed by Melody Brooks

Who controls the truth, and who's allowed to know it? In the not too distant future, three sisters find themselves at odds over the answer to that question and to perhaps a more important one—who did Mom like best?

A LAUGH Too FAR By by Yekta KhagHani, directed by Kristen Kelso

If having a voice and a popular platform means having power, then Ava, a successful talk-show personality, had it all. Until she was silenced by a stroke. Who will speak for her now? And what does she really want to say?

THE FUTURE IS FEMALE By Melissa Maney, directed by Jennie Reich Litzky

In this Frankensteinian satire, three husbands plot to use their dabbling in pseudo-science to turn their wives into creatures of complete submission.

PROGRAM A ACTORS: TO BE Announced

Program A tickets coming soon

Program B includes:

Bargaining chip By Teresa MeLla Fogel, directed by CatalinA Beltrán

Devastated by the loss of her husband, Elena must now manage her troubled teenaged son on her own. After his brush with the law, a new tech company offers a helping hand.

The Manifestation of Sunny Black by Seshat Yon'Shea Walker, directed by Dani Ortiz

It's a blue moon night. Sunny is not herself, not since Auntie disappeared. Will a SIS program simulating Auntie's thoughts and feelings help discover her whereabouts or will their reconnection be lost in the stars?

Daisy knows best by Patricia Lynn, directed by Kristen Kelso

A dark and stormy night. Two estranged friends in a remote cabin in the woods. A doll named Daisy. Will Annie and Isabel succeed at reconnecting, or does Daisy have other plans?