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! The following three days of performance will take place at Theatre 68 Arts Complex - The Rosalie at 5112 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA.

Schedule Of events

3 pm-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 story dives deep into the life of a Rosa Parks we may not know.

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 pm-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"

Fay Hauser-Price, "Lady Of The Southland"

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.

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