ANNOUNCING

Graphic for a staged reading of "Let Me In" by Zander Pryor

JOIN US ON APRIL 30 FOR

SheDFW Presents a staged reading of the new play Let Me In by Zander Pryor, in collaboration with the Resource Center!

Free admission and no registration required – just show up!

Tuesday, April 30

Doors @ 6:30pm

Performance @ 7:30

LOCATION:

Resource center – Community Center

5750 Cedar Springs Road

A Q&A will follow the performance, and light bites and drinks will be served.

You asked, we listened: we’re opening a new Festival branch in Dallas-Fort Worth!

Building on the success of our Summer Theater Festivals in New York City, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, SheDFW will bring our mission and vision to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Texas artists have always made up a large portion of our nationwide script submissions, so we’re bringing the Festival to you! We can’t wait to see what women, trans, & non-binary voices of Texas bring to the stage in Fall 2024.

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Fort Worth-based producer Sarah Powell, who will take on the Executive Producer role of SheDFW, in partnership with Associate Producer Rebecca Lowrey, the newly appointed CEO of MusicalWriters.com. Under their leadership, SheDFW promises to be an electric addition to the SheNYC Arts family.

The introduction of SheDFW follows the proud legacy of SheLA and SheATL, underlining SheNYC Arts as the beacon for gender-marginalized talents in the theater world.

Festival script submissions are now closed as of March 1! Want to submit next year? Keep reading to learn more about the Festival process.

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JOIN US ON MAY 11 IN DALLAS

for a small business scavenger hunt through the bishop arts district!

STARTING LOCATION:
Mosaic Makers, 401 N Bishop Ave, Dallas

Follow the clues to find our SheDFW Buttons in each store! Then take a picture with the button, and post it to Instagram tagging @she.dfw.arts and the small business.

Show your clue card at each location for a discount or free items! Make it to Oddfellow's by 2pm to get your raffle ticket (included with your registration).

FINISH LINE:
316 West Seventh Street, Dallas

Hang out with the other scavenger hunters, and we'll be raffling off prizes from the small businesses to end the day!

Registration is required for this event. All proceeds benefit the inaugural SheDFW Theater Festival!

She DFW Scavenger Hunt: May 11, Bishop Arts District

PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES:

About the SheDFW Theater Festival

what’s the festival timeline?

Script submissions are now open, due March 1 at 11:59pm. We will notify selected shows in May 2024.

The Inaugural SheDFW Theater Festival will take place September 9-15, 2024 — we’ll be announcing our venue soon!

what is a theater festival?

The typical theater festival is an opportunity for playwrights to self-produce their work in full onstage, for a paying audience. Festivals have multiple shows which all share resources (like the theater itself, front-of-house staff and supplies, and technical equipment), making the process far less expensive for everyone than producing your show in full on your own. If you’ve done readings already and feel like you’re ready to take the next step of seeing your piece fully staged, a festival is probably the right fit for you!

how is sheDFW different?

We pride ourselves on providing more for less. As a non-profit, we’re able to charge no participation fee, and you get the full SheDFW staff on your team to help produce your show with you!

We take care of most of the logistics, so you can focus on the creative parts of producing your show.

what do you get as a part of the festival?

SheDFW provides to its selected playwrights:

Theater rental for tech/performances and all of the technical equipment and insurance that goes along with it
A director
Free rehearsal space
Some basic shared set pieces
$250 for you to use toward paying your actors or other creative personnel
$250 to use toward costumes and props
A sound designer and lighting designer who will design all the shows in the Festival
A Production Manager for your time in the theater who will run tech & performances
A marketing & advertising strategy for the festival as a whole
Production photography & videography
The Festival producing team to help guide you through the process
Front of house and box office staff; we manage the ticketing system
A lifelong community of artists to support you going forward!

Additionally, of the 3 shows we select to be a part of the Festival, we plan to select one musical. That musical will be sponsored by MusicalWriters.com, enabling us to provide:

A music director and performance pianist, potentially including a band depending on the musical style of the show accepted
A choreographer, if needed
The support of the team behind MusicalWriters.com!

what do you need to provide as a part of the festival?

You’re the lead producer on your own show, so you pull together your team and everything that the festival doesn’t provide. This includes:

Any rehearsal space you may need outside of what we provide
Any set, props, or costume pieces outside of what we provide
You make your own casting decisions and hire your actors (though we’ll help with this by setting up a group audition day)
“Elbow grease” marketing – while we advertise the festival as a whole, you should promote your individual show and make sure your networks know about it
A stage manager for your rehearsal process, if you feel you need one

who can apply?

Anyone in the U.S. can apply, but preference will be given to Texas-based artists.

What kind of shows we accept:

Full-lengths only (running time between 1 and 2 hours)
Plays, musicals, or adaptations
The writing team must be at least 50% marginalized genders (cis women, trans men and women, and non-binary people)
You must own all the rights to the material within your script

What kind of shows we do not accept:

Short plays or short musicals (less than one hour)
Pieces that are adapted from works that are not public domain or that you can’t prove you have the rights to produce

Help Launch the SheDFW Festival

We can’t do this without your help. Donate to SheDFW and become one of our inaugural supporters!

Get Involved

Want to be involved in the inaugural SheDFW Theater Festival? We’d love to hear from you! We hope to make this a truly community event, so encourage DFW-based artists, arts adminstrators, and organizations to reach out by signing up below, or emailing DFW@shenycarts.org.