COMMIT to Create
What is COMMIT to Create?
The Commit To Create campaign encourages you to take the next step in the Mz. Fest mission to provide process-based, female-centric opportunities in the Philadelphia area. We accept all projects with at least a 50% ratio of female opportunties.
Help us take the next step!
COMMIT to Create Project #1: Lee Ann Etzold
Pointbold: A Neighborhood Project:
Point Breeze is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia that is changing fast: some of the change is positive and some of the change is not, depending on who you talk to. But that's the problem...residents and developers and city officials are having a hard time talking. Pointbold, a collective of professional performers, educators, and creatively minded neighbors, wants to help these conversations happen productively - so everyone's voice is heard.
COMMIT to Create Project #2: Liz Fillios
Girls Rock Philly is a volunteer-based non-profit music and mentoring organization dedicated to empowering girls and young women from the greater Philadelphia region through music education and activities that foster leadership skills, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
COMMIT to Create Project #3: Elaina Di Monaco
SHE Directs will feature a variety of Philadelphia-based emerging female directors. Each participant will present a short showing of work that represents their point of view as a theatre artist. Reject Theatre Project strives to provide a showcase opportunity for emerging female directors and create an evening that celebrates female theatre artists. The evening will be hosted by Philadelphia lady-director-favorites Kathryn MacMillan (Associate Artistic Director of Lantern Theater Company & Freelance Director) and Amy Smith (Co-Director of Headlong Dance Theater, Director & Choreographer).
SHE DIRECTS IS ON AUGUST 1ST @ THE PLAYS & PLAYERS MAIN STAGE
COMMIT to Create Project #4: TS Hawkins
(re)FOCUS Fest brings together four theatre ensembles to explore the concept of privilege and to celebrate diversity through shared performance.
Through poetic dialogue, immersive soundscapes, and lyrical movement, Kaleid Theatre, Power Street Theatre Company, [redacted] Theater Company, and TS Hawkins meditate on gender, race, sexuality, class, and everything in between.
(re)FOCUS Fest is a chance to (re)focus on themes that are all around us, but difficult to see, explore, and discuss. It is a celebration of our ability to confront ourselves, learn from each other, and rejoice in the myriad of experiences that make us who we are.
COMMIT TO CREATE PROJECT #5: Carly Bodnar
ReVamp wants to create a world where women and men can come together and appreciate their individuality, rather than be diminished by it. Through devised interactive productions, by fostering local artists, re-imagining established pieces, as well as workshops and collaborations in our community, we are opening up a conversation to push the boundaries of how we view each other and theatre.
COMMIT TO CREATE PROJECT #6: Sarah Stearns and Meredith LaBoon
Diana is an ensemble that champions women through a diverse body of work. They seek to create theater through which they can explore the past and dream in the present to build a future where women can just be themselves without being confined or defined by traditional relationships. Nothing in life is black and white, including women. Diana seeks to show the black, white and resulting gray within the female experience which is, after all, everyone's experiences. By challenging dualities and stereotypes, Diana hopes to truthfully portray the lives of a myriad of women and share their unique stories from the familiar to the fantastical while inspiring audiences to think critically.
COMMIT TO CREATE PROJECT #7: Polly Edelstein
Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival fosters and encourages women in the performing arts by offering unique opportunities for exposure, professional and artistic and personal development and a platform for performance.
FESTIVAL IS ON JULY 30TH - AUGUST 2ND
COMMIT To Create Project #8: EgoPo Classic Theater
2015/16 Season American Giants II: The Women:
Last year’s American Giants season featured the works of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O’Neill. This year we feature the works of three of the greatest female playwrights of American theater: Lillian Hellman, Clare Boothe Luce, and Sophie Treadwell.
COMMIT To Create #9: Directors Gathering
Directors Gathering is partnering with award-winning #theatredirectorPirronne Yousefzadeh to bring you the Directors JAM.
Featuring the work of these 6 talented #theatredirectors:
Tommy Butler, Brenna Geffers, Elissa Goetschius, Kate Moore Heaney, Phoebe Schaub, Sam Tower
The JAM is a day-long workshop, performance, and celebration in which six directors will each devise a short piece with professional actors, based on ingredients Pirronne will provide in advance. Participating directors will meet their actors for the first time in rehearsal space early in the day on Saturday, May 7 to work for a few hours creating six unique pieces of theatre.
COMMIT To Create #10: Siona Stone
The Point is a weekend intensive program for middle schoolers that exposes them to a variety of healing arts in order to find their creative language. Through this program, teens will have the opportunity to use drama, dance, art, music, and writing to reveal their thoughts and feelings through an outlet they may never have known existed before.
Support These Great Commit to Create Projects!
COMMIT to Create Project #1: Lee Ann Etzold
COMMIT to Create Project #2: Liz Fillios
COMMIT to Create Project #3: Elaina Di Monaco
COMMIT to Create Project #4: TS Hawkins
https://www.facebook.com/events/978778002214903/
COMMIT to Create Project #6: Sarah Stearns and Meredith LaBoon
COMMIT to Create Project #7: Polly Edelstein
COMMIT To Create Project #8: EgoPo Classic Theater
COMMIT To Create #9: Directors Gathering
COMMIT To Create #10: Siona Stone
