Our Voices X - Festival of Boston Area Women Playwrights

On Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015, Our Voices will once again be hosted by the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Wellesley College. It will continue as an all day, 10-hour event, which will culminate in an evening of performances of new work, open to the public at no charge. Due to scheduling requirements, for the first time, Our Voices will be held in the fall. Audience members will be invited starting at 7:00 p.m. with a reception hosted by the playwrights and writers.

Our Voices was founded in 2007 by Kelly DuMar with the support of Playwrights' Platform, Boston, as an evening festival of staged readings of Boston area women playwrights’ new short plays. The first Our Voices was held in Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre celebrating International Women’s Day, (March 8) at Wellesley College.

In 2008, Our Voices became an annual event , an evening of staged readings of Boston area women playwrights, hosted once again at Ruth Nagel Jones in March in honor of International Women’s Day.

Because of RNJ construction, Our Voices was held in the Turtle Lane Theatre in 2009, with the addiction of an afternoon writing workshop for playwrights; listed as a SWAN event, (Support Women Artists Now, a national movement in March to encourage/support women artists)

2010-2012, Our Voices was hosted in March by Regis College Fine Arts Center as an all-day festival featuring a morning critique group and afternoon workshop for playwrights;

Our Voices returned to RNJ in March 2013 haveing grown into 10-hour, day-long festival featuring workshop readings/discussion of new plays, an afternoon workshop for theatre artists and evening of staged readings for the public.

Financial Contributors over the years have included small donations from Playwrights’ Platform, The International Centre for Women Playwrights; Image Theatre, Wellesley College Theatre Studies and the Cleaver Company; Regis College Theatre Department and The Wellesley College Theatre Department.