ICWP celebrates female playwrights

The International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP)is pleased to announce International Women’s Day celebrating female playwrights by including staged
readings of complete short plays and excerpts of longer works.

ICWP-sponsored events to mark International Women’s Day will be held during the month of March:

New York City, New York-
Rachel Rubin Ladutke
icwpmem@rachelwrites.com, 201-430-4517

Boston, Massachusetts
Geralyn Horton
g.l.horton@mindspring.com, 617-630-9704

Mesa, Arizona
Marie-Jeanne Pense
clintandmarie@msn.com, 480-241-4908

Kitchener,Ontario, Canada
Paddy Gillard-Bentley
skye_dragon@SYMPATICO.CA

Bucharest, Romania
Lucia Verona
luciaverona@digicom.ro

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Coming up in June, ICWP and Around The Coyote, a Chicago theatre company, will co-sponsor a four-day festival of readings and panels, Her-RAH!

Jill Elaine Hughes, the event coordinator, can be reached at jillelaineicwp@yahoo.com.
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The mission of ICWP is to support women playwrights around the world by:

* bringing international attention to their achievements;
* encouraging production of their plays, translation,publication, and international distributions of their
works;
*providing means for communication and contact among the sister community of the world's women dramatists;
*assisting them in developing the tools of their craft, in determining their own artistic forms, and in setting their own critical standards;
*encouraging scholarly and critical examination and study of the history and the contemporary work and concerns of women playwrights;
*supporting their efforts to gain professional equality, and to express their own personal, artistic,
social, and political vision without censorship,harassment, or personal danger.

The organization welcomes all who support the goals of the ICWP Inc. including male supporters who share our
vision.

For more information about ICWP and our IWD events see:www.internationalwomenplaywrights.org

Contact: Tanja Pineda, Director of Public Relations
E-mail: tanjasofia@yahoo.com
Phone: (206) 365-1518