Past Productions Archives

2024-2025

Mainstage

HOTSPOT: Meganne George Short Play Festival

It CAN Happen Here!-Hallie Flanagan & the Federal Theatre Project by Melody Brooks, Katrin Hilbe, Tess Howsam, Daniel Jacobs, Susan Quinn 

Touring

STEAL AWAY: The Living History of Harriet Tubman, Harriet Tubman National Park, MD

On Her Shoulders

The Discovery (1763) by Frances Sheridan

Jacob Slovak (1927) by Mercedes de Acosta

Work-in-Progress

Sweet Noise Festival of Readings

• A Quarter to Three by Deniz Khateri

• Inside/Outside by Gena Bardwell

• The Last Transit of Venus by Lynn Marie Macy

2023-2024

Mainstage

SILVER LININGS: Meganne George Short Play Festival

Touring

It's Not So Bad in My Brain by Amalia Oliva Rojas at the Alternative Theatre Festival, Bogotá, Colombia

On Her Shoulders

DIDO: The Tragic Queen of Carthage (1794) by Charlotte Von Stein, translated/adapted by Lynn Marie Macy

One Is A Crowd (1970) by Beah Richards

Work-in-Progress

A Walk in Yaya's Garden by Stephanie Berry ( w/ Blackberry Prods)

Sweet Noise Festival of Readings

• The Men by Daphne Greaves

• I Can't Remember by Zakeia Tyson Cross

• The Village Beautiful by Jane Denitz Smith

• The Absurdity of Life by MJ Perrin

2022-2023

Mainstage

END GAME: Meganne George Short Play Festival

How to Melt ICE by Amalia Oliva Rojas (w/Boundless Theatre) 4 LATA Awards, 3 HOLA Nominations

Mamma Decemba by Nigel Moffat (w/Banana Boat Prods.)

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Mini Fest Readings

• The Dictator's Dentist by Sonya Hayden

• I Can't Remember by Zakeia Tyson Cross

• Leda's Children by Joan Castagnone

• Worst Roommate in the World by Michele Miller

• Tribe by Jennie Contuzzi

2021-2022

Mainstage

EMERGENCE: Meganne George Short Play Festival

NOW OR NEVER: Meganne George Short Play Festival

Touring

Suffragists From the Stage at Morgan Opera House, Aurora, NY

Virtual Touring

Frosting on Top by Uma Paranjpe and Foul Line by K. Alexa Mavromatis, Alterative Theatre Festival, Bogotá

On Her Shoulders (Virtual)

Count Partinuplés (c.1640) by Ana Caro, translated by Harley Erdman

On the Thin Crust of Civilization: The Plays of Marita Bonner: The Pot Maker (1927), The Purple Flower - A Play (1928) and Exit, an Illusion (1929)

1,000 Years of Women Writing Plays: launch of OHS database

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Mini Fest Readings

• A Final Toast by Michele Miller

• I Can't Remember by Zakeia Tyson-Cross

• I Want a Unicorn Frappe by Catherine Weingarten

• Leda's Children by Joan Castagnone

• The Tribes by Jennie Contuzzi

Other WIP

• How to Melt ICE by Amalia Oliva Rojas

• Milada by Laura Zlatos

2020-2021

Mainstage (Virtual)

NOW OR NEVER: Women's Work Short Play Festival

On Her Shoulders (Virtual)

A HARLEM TRIPTYCH: 3 Plays By Eulalie Spence: The Hunch (1927), The Starter (1923), Undertow (1927)

Gabriel (1838) by Georges Sand, adapted by Lynn Marie Macy 

Slaves In Algiers (1794) by Susanna Rowson 

The Necessity Of Divorce (1790) by Olympe de Gouges, translated by Clarissa Palmer

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• A Final Toast by Michele Miller

• Baby Fever by Alison Lowenstein

• How to Melt ICE by Amalia Oliva Rojas

• I Can't Remember by Zakeia Tyson-Cross

• Leda's Children by Joan Castagnone

• Milada by Laura Zlatos

• The Last Transit of Venus by Lynn Marie Macy

• Therapy Dog by Jennifer Rowland

• Tribe by Jennie Contuzzi

2019-2020

Mainstage 

APPROVAL PENDING: Women's Work Short Play Festival

Night of the Working Dead, by Richard Wentz

Touring

Our Lady of Broad Street by Jane Denitz Smith and Oh My, Goodness by Cayenne Douglass at Cayuga College, Auburn, NY

Suffragists From the Stage at Cayuga College

Our Lady of Broad Street (virtual) at the Bogota Festa

On Her Shoulders

A Fatal Friendship (1698) by Catherine Trotter

Sappho of Lesbos (1868) by Estelle Anna Lewis

Work-in-Progress

Women’s Work Project

• Baby Fever by Alison Lowenstein

• Marla and Her Prayers by Kim Merrill

• How to Melt ICE by Amalia Oliva Rojas

• Leda’s Children by Joan Castagnone

• Riptide by Alisa Zhulina

• Tribe by Jennie Contuzzi

• The Last Transit of Venus by Lynn Marie Macy

2018-2019

Mainstage
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE: Women's Work Short Play Festival

The Key Game by Patricia Cumper (with Banana Boat Prods.)

The Ritual by Zeno Obi Constance (40th Anniversary of the play)

ON HER SHOULDERS

• The Woman Hater (1802)

• Wine in the Wilderness (1969)

• Medieval Mothers of Drama: Hroswitha of Gandersheim and Hildegard of Bingen (c. 955-970), (1151)

• Quietly Subversive: 3 Short Plays by Teresa Deevy (1947-1949)
  

Works-in Progress

MAY Mini-festival

• Leda's Children by Joan Castagnone

• Tribe by Jennie Contuzzi

• Kitty by Ann Chamberlin

Other

• The Last Transit of Venus by Lynn Marie Macy

• Baby Fever by Alison Lowenstein

• Riptide by Alisa Zuli

2017-2018

Mainstage

UNHINGED: Women's Work Short Play Festival

She Calls Me Firefly by Teresa Lotz (w/Parity Prods.) Best Short Play, Indie Theatre Awards

Touring

Color Blue by Alexis Roblan and Sublet by Alisa Zhulina at the Alternative Theatre Festival, Bogotá, Colombia

On Her Shoulders

The Camp (El Campo, 1967) by Griselda Gambaro

Peculiar Sam (1879) by Pauline Hopkins

Mary Jane's Pa (1906) by Edith Ellis

Work-in-Progress

MAY mini-festival

• Kitty by Ann Chamberlin

• Splendid Grace by Charlotte Colavin

• It Started With a Kiss by Cara Hall

Barbour Awards Play Readings

• The Andrew Play by Alexis Roblan (Winner)

• Straddling the Edge by Sandra Daley Sharif

• Mommy's Little Princess by Teresa Lotz

2016-2017

Mainstage 

CROSSING BOUNDARIES (w/Banana Boat Productions)

STAGE STRUCK: RECLAIMING THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THEATRE

ON HER SHOULDERS

• HOW FAR HAVE WE COME?: 3 "New Woman" plays by  Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton , Marie Jenny Howe, Evelyn Glover

• A FORM APART: Plays & Poetry by May Miller;  Stragglers in the Dust (1930), Nails and Thorns (1933)

• A BATTLE OF WITS: Short Plays by Djuna Barnes; A Passion Play (1918), Kurzy of the Sea (1920), Little Drops of Rain (1922), The Dove (1926)
  

Works-in Progress

April Mini Festival of Staged Readings

• Bliss Point by Joan Castagnone

• Splendid Grace by Charlotte Colavin

• Mommy's Little Princess by Teresa Lotz

• Kitty by Ann Chanberlin

• Rice by Yani Perez 

2015-2016

Mainstage 

Jihad, The Play at the Women On Stage for Peace Festival, Bogota, Colombia

The Work Goes On: Women's Work Short Play Retrospective

Peola's Passing by Cynthia Robinson Williams and God Don't Exist for Girls From Brooklyn by Yani Perez at the Alternative Theatre Festival: Bogota, Colombia

ON HER SHOULDERS

• WOMEN ON THE VERGE: 2 plays by  Alice Erya Gerstenberg;  Overtones (1913) and Fourteen (1920)

• House of Desires (1683) by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Translation by Catherine Boyle

• SOUL STRUGGLE: 4 Short Plays by Georgia Douglas Johnson; Blue Blood (1926), Plumes (1927) , Blue-Eyed Black Boy (1930), Starting Point (1938)

• The Group (1775) by Mercy Otis Warren
  

Works-in Progress

May Mini Festival of Staged Readings

• The Andrew Play by Alexis Roblan

• Bliss Point by Joan Castagnone

• Cece and Lulu by Charlotte Colavin

• Mommy's Little Princess by Teresa Lotz

• The Mind in the Cave by Ann Chanberlin

2014-2015

Mainstage 

ON THE MARGIN: Women's Work Short Play Festival

Truths and Accommodations (co-produced with Banana Boat Productions)

She Calls Me Firefly (co-production with Parity Productions)

ON HER SHOULDERS

• Madame La Mort (1891) and Pleasure (1896) by Rachilde

• The Office (1966) by Maria Irene Fornés 

• Chicago (1926) by  Maurine Dallas Watkins 

• THE SUFFRAGISTS: Lady Geraldine’s Speech (1909) by Beatrice Harraden ; How the Vote Was Won (1909) by Cicely Hamilton & Christopher St. John ; Mother’s Meeting (1913) by Mrs. Harlow Phibbs

• Spunk (1925) by Zora Neale Hurston       
  

Works-in Progress

Women’s work project

May Mini Festival of Staged Readings

• The Andrew Play by Alexis Roblan

• Straddling the Edge by Sandra Daley Sharif

• Chronic by Michele Miller

• My Mother Flew B17s by Marisa Petsakos 

2013-2014

Mainstage 

DEAD RECKONING: Women's Work Short Play Festival

RICHARD VETERE EXPLAINS THE WORLD...10 Minutes at a Time

Night of the Working Dead: Short Plays by Richard Wentz

Marla and Her Prayers (Off the Page Workshop Production)

The Dark Lady Rises (with Dark Lady Players)

ON HER SHOULDERS

• A Man's World (1910) by Rachel Crothers 

• Fashion (1845) by Anna Cora Mowatt, adapted by Bonnie Milne Gardner 

• Diana Of Dobsons (1908) by Cicely Hamilton 

• The Verge (1921) by Susan Glaspell 

• A Taste Of Honey (1958) by Shelagh Delaney 

•  Les Blancs (1970) by Lorraine Hansberry 

• The Years Between (1945) by Daphne Du Maurier 

•  A Bold Stroke For A Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre 

• A Fool Of Fortune (1896) by Martha Morton 

• A Convent Of Pleasure (1668) by Margaret Cavendish 

• Sex (1926)by Mae West 
  

WOMEN OF PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS:

The Rescue (1916) by Rita Creighton Smith

The Widow’s Veil (1920) by Alice L. Rostetter

Aria da Capo (1920) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Works-in Progress 

Women’s work project

• Dancing on Eggshells by Cynthia Robinson

• Straddling the Edge by Sandra Daley Sharif

• Chronic by Michele Miller

• Minotaur by Alexis Roblan

• My Mother Flew B17s by Marisa Petsakos 

2012-2013

Mainstage

TOXICITY: Women's Work Short Play Festival

Works-in Progress

• Dancing on Eggshells by Cynthia Robinson

• Chronic by Michele Miller

• My Mother Flew B52s by Marissa Petsakos

• Straddling the Edge by Sandra Daley Sharif

• Beautiful Pearls by Judy Chicurel

• Minotaur by Alexis Roblan 

2011-2012

Mainstage

JUSTIFIED: Women’s Work Short Play Festival

Women In Transition (with Banana Boat Productions)

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Boat People by France-Luce Benson

• Dancing on Eggshells by Cynthia Robinson

• An Apple a Day by Heather Violanti

• Shamhat by Rosebud Ben-Oni

2010-2011

Mainstage 

IN THE PAPERS: Women's Work Short Play Festival

Mother of God! by Michele A. Miller

Travelin' Shoes by Denise Lock, Voices From the Edge

Works-in Progress 

• Marla and Her Prayers by Kim Merrill

• Tunnel Vision by Andrea Lepcio 

2009-2010

Mainstage

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Ritual by Zeno Constance (Banana Boat Productions)

BY POPULAR DEMAND (Women’s Work Short Play Festival)

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Tunnel Vision, by Andrea Lepcio

• Mother of God!, by Michele Miller

• Platinum Travel Club by Franca Miraglia

2008-2009

Mainstage

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Mamma Decemba’, by Nigel D. Moffett (w/Banana Boat)

CYCLONE!, Book & Lyrics by Dana Leslie Goldstein, Music by Rima Fand, NYMF ‘08

Sona Tera Roman Hess, by Dennis Miles (Los Angeles)

GIRL POWER! (Women’s Work Short Play Festival)

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• SAD MAD BAD GLAD by Andrea Lepcio

• Marla’s Prayer, by Kim Merrill

2007-2008

Mainstage

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Ritual by Zeno Constance (with Banana Boat)

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

OFF THE PAGE Workshop Production

Everyday, Somewhere Here, by Benji Rogers w/Melody Brooks

2006-2007

Mainstage

Loss of theatre; no mainstage productions

Work-in-Progress

Everyday, Somewhere Here: Letters From Palestine and Israel by Benji Rogers with Melody Brooks

Finding Home by Keline Adams

The Desire by Jackie Alexander

2005-2006

Mainstage

Romeo & Juliet (NYC Parks Tour)

Platinum Travel Club by Franca Miraglia

Work-in-Progress

Everyday, Somewhere Here: Letters From Palestine and Israel by Benji Rogers with Melody Brooks

ComicStripTease by Timbre Henning

Ghosts in Brooklyn by Carmen Rivera

Floorshow in the Sweet Life by Louise Schwarz

2004-2005

Mainstage

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Visit by Ricardo Monti (American Premiere)

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

Platinum Travel Club by Franca Miraglia

Other

• ComicStripTease by Timbre Henning

• Mommy Says I’m Pretty on the Insides by Lucy Alibar

• This Really Happened in Brooklyn by Carmen Rivera
  

2003-2004

Mainstage

Unrequited Love by Melissa Maxwell

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Lemon Meringue Façade by Ted Lange (NY Premiere)

Work-in-Progress

Puddin’ by Tia Hodge

2002-2003

Mainstage

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Romeo & Juliet by Wm. Shakespeare

Voices From the Edge 6.0

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Wm. Shakespeare

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Pralaya by Zakiyyah Alexander

2001-2002

Mainstage

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

The Taming of the Shrew by Wm. Shakespeare (OOBR Award for Excellence)

Voices From the Edge 5.0

Macbeth by Wm. Shakespeare 

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Amor y Pesetas by Suzette Gamble

• A Mission Accomplished by Lanette Ware

2000-2001

Mainstage

Jihad  (Midtown Int’l Theatre Festival)

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

OFF THE PAGE Workshop Production

Good People by L. Trey Wilson

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• X Times Infinity by Lisa Harris

1999-2000

Mainstage

The Shaneequa Chronicles by Stephanie Berry (w/Blackberry Productions)

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Julius Caesar by Wm. Shakespeare

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Thriller by Penelope Prentice

1998-1999

Mainstage

Love Bites Back (One Act Festival)

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Othello by Wm. Shakespeare

Exhibit #9 by Tracey Wilson (Audelco Award)

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Barnstormer by Cheryl Davis

1997-1998

Mainstage

Kolonists by Steven Dykes (U.S. Premiere)

Macbeth by Wm. Shakespeare (at St. John the Divine)

Voices From the Edge: New Works by African American Writers and Performers

Work-in-Progress

Give Me Room by Kevin Frazer

Tales from the PositiveSide by Benja K

1996-1997

Main stage

Anatomy of a Love Affair by Deirdre Hollman2 (Optioned by Essence Entertainment)

Richard III by Wm. Shakespeare

Love Bites Again (One Act Festival)

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Prison Brides and Movie Star by Pat Kaufman

1995-1996

Mainstage

The Increased Difficulty of Concentration by Vaclav Havel (NY Premiere)

Admissions by Tony Velella (10 Best Plays, Backstage)

Macbeth by Wm. Shakespeare

Jihad by Ann Chamberlin (OOBR Award for Excellence)

Two by Andra Gordon

Love Bites (One Act Festival)

OFF THE PAGE Workshop Production

Reflecting Magdalene by Alison Solomon

1994-1995

Mainstage

Post Mortem by Jennifer Christman2

The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Wm. Shakespeare

Cartoon for a New Ceiling by Lenore Blumenfeld (NY Premiere)

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Jihad by Ann Chamberlin

1993-1994

Mainstage

September 11th by Guillermo Reyes (American Premiere)

Family Values?(One Act Festival)

The Real World by 9th Grade students at School for the Physical City

Work-in-Progress

Women's Work Project

• Post Mortem by Jennifer Christman