Theatrix celebrates Women's Week with Staged Reading Festival

calendar icon07 Mar 2017    

Lincoln, Neb.--Theatrix, the student-run theatre company within the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, continues its 2017 Spring season with the Women’s Week Staged Reading Festival, an event that presents plays performed, directed, and written by published and student female theatre artists.
 
Theatrix produces the Women’s Week Staged Reading Festival in continuation of its season of experimental student theatre projects, as well as in celebration and observance of what it means to be a female-identifying person in this day and age.
 
The festival is organized and directed by sophomore theatre directing major Katie Triplett and senior performance and directing and management major Amy Almond. It will feature plays written by published female playwrights in addition to works written by students and alumna of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: “Lions, Tigers, and Dares” by sophomore performance major Katie Vondrak, “Gray Area” by 2016 performance alumna Katie Hoppe, and “Peas and Carrots” by freshman film and new media major Maya Linn Peirce.
 
The Women’s Week Staged Reading Festival is an official event of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s 2017 Women’s Week, with performances running Wednesday, March 15 through Friday, March 17. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m., with a different set of readings being performed every night.
 
All performances of the Women’s Week Staged Reading Festival will take place in the Lab Theatre on the third floor of the Temple Building, 12th and R Streets. Plays featured in the festival may contain mature language and themes that may not be suitable for all audiences.
 
The Women’s Week Staged Reading Festival is a free event, though material and monetary donations are encouraged. In lieu of admission, Theatrix invites and encourages audience members to bring donations of tampons and feminine hygiene products or a suggested donation of $5, with all proceeds benefitting the Lincoln People’s City Mission.
 
Theatrix is a student-run theatre company that works under the umbrella of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.
 
Theatrix is managed by the 2016-2017 Management Team:
Amy Almond, Artistic Director
Desiree Bartels, Managing Director
Paul Schack, Production Stage Manager
Matt Knight, Technical Director