La Femme Theatre Productions is dedicated to exploring the female experience through classic and contemporary plays. Our mission is to bring women’s voices center stage — where they belong.
This past summer, La Femme proudly launched its Women in Agency Festival, reviving two of its celebrated development programs — A Woman’s Storyland and Women on the Verge — while also inaugurating the Corner Nest Lab, a program designed to nurture collegiate playwrights. The Festival engaged bold voices to write original works that explored the depth, complexity, and creativity of women in both political and personal agency. Featuring the work of Mentor Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader, Mentee Playwrights Abigail Duclos, Zoe Geltman, Tess Inderbitzin, and Yahney-Marie Sangaré and showcasing its Women on the Verge, director Britt Berke (who directed Abigail’s play) and stage manager Kyra Bowie (who stage managed Zoe’s play), the Festival took place from August 3 to August 17, 2025 at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Linney Theatre. With full houses and standing ovations, the second week was even more spectacular than the first.
After such great success, the Women in Agency Festival is scheduled to return in August 2026. La Femme looks forward to presenting the work of emerging female playwrights by not only continuing its mentorship of the 2025 mentee playwrights but also introducing newly discovered playwrights.
Over the past decade, La Femme has curated seasons that not only align with our mission but also resonate with the zeitgeist of the American canon. Through collaborations with The Peccadillo Theater Company and The Cherry Lane Theatre, as well as independent productions at The Theatre at St. Clement’s, La Femme has expanded its reach, serving as a platform for female artists to thrive.
As we enter a new chapter, we at La Femme are excited to maintain this momentum with programs such as A Woman’s Storyland and Women on the Verge: The Gladys and Mary Dohmen Reading Series. With La Femme’s legacy continuing to grow, we are honored to have collaborated with award-winning artists on the 2023–2024 Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Diamond Stage.
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