The 32nd Annual Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF) has a roster of accomplished co-hosts for its six programs. This year’s overall theme is STRONGER TOGETHER. Our Annual Champagne GALA and Awards Ceremony, taking place at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, will honor 6 accomplished women in theatre, the event will also include 2 performances!

Schedule of Events:

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Champagne GALA at 6:30 pm and Awards Ceremony at 8:00pm

The Champagne GALA and Awards Ceremony will occur at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre. Six deserving women will be honored with the Festival’s Annual Theatre Awards for their laudable contributions to the theatre world (who will be named in a separate press release). Spoken word and dance performances will also be presented.

The theme of the GALA: “A TOAST TO“

Hosted by Ted Lange and Margaret Avery.

Vannia Ibarguen, “Path to Home”
This dance defines home is where we feel confident and safe within ourselves.

Karen A. Clark, “Super Woman”
Vocalist Karen A. Clark will share two of her vibrant musical selections.

Ashley Gayle, “Actualization of a Dream”
This dance is a dedication to all the ancestors who had dreams, and today’s women who are living those dreams.

Location: Barnsdall Gallery Theatre - 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027

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Friday, March 28, 2025

8:00pm - Theme: A Woman's Choice

Hosted by Jahna Cole Houston and Jessica Lynn Johnson

Maggie Cee, “Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar: 1938 – 1969”
This dance/theatre piece explores the strength and determination of women who paved the way for the Queer Rights Movement by creating space to be themselves out of sheer necessity.

Janice Creneti, “My Year of Saying No”
During COVID-19, a woman’s journey rejects patriarchy, perfection and guilt to find her way back to herself.

Fay Hauser-Price, “Lady Of The Southland”
A poetic salute to the queens and angels out there in all their beautifully-colored containers of bodies and minds.

Smita Russell, “Odds Are”
This autobiographical story navigates the tumultuous terrain of multiple miscarriages as told through the lenses of honesty, humor and curiosity.

Location: Theatre 68 Arts Complex - 5112 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91601

Saturday, March 29, 2025 

3:00pm - Theme: A Look Back in Time

Hosted by Lula Washington (Co-Founder, Lula Washington Dance Theatre) and Rosie Lee Hooks (Sweet Honey In The Rock)

Vanessa Adams Harris, “Rosa Parks”
This excerpt piece gives a glimpse of the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Ms. Rosa Parks.

Tashara Gavin-Moorehead, “The Spirit of Jazz”
The Spirit of Jazz is a piece that invites you to remember the roots of jazz and to strive for freedom and liberation.

Hope Levy, “The Connie Converse Universe”
In August of 1974 after turning 50, Connie Converse, the first female modern folk singer-songwriter wrote a cryptic letter to loved ones and mysteriously was never to be seen again.

Melissa Lugo, “For You”
A story that weaves through grief, addiction and the bond between mothers and daughters.

8:00pm - Theme: Unsilenced

Hosted by Kat Kramer (Actor/Producer) and Yvonne Farrow (City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)

Mayuri Bhandari, “The Anti – Yogi”
This blended show of yoga, dance, live percussion and poetry peels back the yoga mat to reveal the recolonization and commercialism of yoga in the West and nationalization in the East.

Laura Elaine Ellis, “A Black Woman’s Truth”
This poetic dance piece explores the many dimensions of the Black Woman.

Caroline Hawthorne, “The iPhone Arias”
This mezzo-soprano singer recounts her chaotic relationship through a cell phone.

Sigute Miller, “Tragic Magic”
Tragic magic is the story of someone who most of her life tries to balance the good girl versus the party animal in her wild ride from addiction to recovery, and ultimately finds redemption and triumph.

Location: Theatre 68 Arts Complex - 5112 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91601

Sunday, March 30, 2025

3:00pm - Theme: Encore

Hosted by Lynne Conner (Filmmaker/Producer) and Terrie Silverman (Creative Rites)

Liza Dealey-Thomason, “Supernova”
Supernova is a fanciful musical that explores the need to be the hero who tries to take care of everyone else and ultimately arrives at the celebration of discovering the joy of taking care of self.

Sona Lewis, “Goddess Song” and “Tarana”
This dancer presents two traditional Kathak Indian dances which pay homage to 14th Century compositions.

Sharon Nyree Williams, “Legacy”
A poet’s exploration of her life’s journey honoring family legacy, standing firmly in the present and envisioning the future.

7:00pm - Theme: Family Portraits

Hosted by Christina Linhardt (Opera Singer) and Kathryn Taylor Smith (A Mile in My Shoes)

Katie Chin, “Holy Shiitake! A Wok Star is Born”
Raised by a seamstress mother turned successful and well-known chef, Katie follows in her mother’s footsteps to also become a Wok Star in the culinary world.

Dee Freeman, “Poison Gun”
A six-year-old remembers being placed in the impossible position of telling what she knows about her grandfather’s secret to authorities in the Deep South.

Victoria Kelleher, “Daddy Issues”
This GenX-er who was raised on hose water and neglect, finds her life is changed after a “23 and Me” DNA identity test.

Alice Manning, “Manning’s Madhouse”
Alice weaves both hilarious and traumatic memories of her family with two parents and 9 children living in 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms on Allison Road in Cleveland, Ohio.

Location: Theatre 68 Arts Complex - 5112 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91601

Date: March 27, 2025 - March 30, 2025

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