Wings of Paper

08/02/2021

✨HAPPY INTERNATIONAL MOTHER ARTIST DAY!✨

Today, AUG 2, 2021, share your story or the story of a mother artist you admire using hashtag .
Tag PWTF and Parent Artist Advocacy League - P**L for Performing Arts, and we'll share your post on our social media. We want to celebrate YOU!

**International Mother Artist Day is a trans-inclusive celebration where we uplift mothers as well as trans/q***r parents who may not identify with the term mother**

✨HAPPY INTERNATIONAL MOTHER ARTIST DAY!✨

Today, AUG 2, 2021, share your story or the story of a mother artist you admire using hashtag .

Tag PWTF and Parent Artist Advocacy League - P**L for Performing Arts, and we'll share your post on our social media. We want to celebrate YOU!

**International Mother Artist Day is a trans-inclusive celebration where we uplift mothers as well as trans/q***r parents who may not identify with the term mother**

05/06/2021

Did you catch Wing's latest? *Spilled Milk (& Other Messy Bits)* was steaming during ! From the brain of creative partner Angela Rose Longo and featuring, among others, Co-Creative Director Molly Jo!

Here are a few stills from *Balloons*, one of three short pieces. Maybe if you're lucky we'll re-release the show sometime soon 😏.

Photos by Kristin Elizabeth Photography

05/06/2021

Need a space? Check out the Mayfair Blackbox!
www.wingsofpaper.org/our-space

Rehearsal/filming space, audition taping, yoga classes, dance rehearsals, camps, workshops, meetings, gallery space, music classes, all are welcome!

Prices are negotiable and dates are available. COVID restrictions must be observed.

DM us or email [email protected]

04/19/2021

Perhaps this will only confuse you more--- but this "quick encapsulation" of SPILLED MILK (&other messy bits) really had us cracking up today.

This may or may not be a completely accurate description for what's to come...

Get your tickets for the virtual performance here: https://www.theatrephiladelphia.org/whats-on-stage/spilled-milk-other-messy-bits

03/17/2021

Hi friends! 🦋 We recently started a blog for sharing thoughtful reviews of local Philly work!

Check out this review of EgoPo Classic Theater’s adapted-for-the-pandemic-age ROCKABY!
(Photo by Kylie Westerbeck)

If you’d like to contribute to our blog a review that lifts up local work, let us know! If you know of a show we should review- tell us! Email: [email protected]

When isolation generated by external public health measures (put upon by the Pandemic), met EgoPo’s experimental presentation of Beckett’s ten-minute solo piece, Rockaby, “isolation” focused on a singular perspective, made more frightening and devastating contextualized by the current climat...

02/26/2021

DO ITTT

Today's the day to submit your "Hometown Hero" play to be considered for PWTF 2021!

All chosen playwrights receive a stipend, and significant preference is given to playwrights within 60 miles of the Philadelphia area.

Click here to learn more --> https://www.phillywomenstheatrefest.org/submissions

02/12/2021

☕️ *(DG) Coffee Chats* ☕️ returns with (DG) Director of Membership + Engagement, Sisi Wright and special guest (DG) Director Noelle Diane Johnson! Tune in on Facebook, February 18th.

Noelle Diane Johnson (she/her) is a multidisciplinary Theatre and Performance Artist, AEA Stage Manager, Director, EDI Consultant, and Artist Advocate. She has worked for multiple venues including The Wilma Theatre, Theatre Horizon, InterAct Theatre Company, Simpatico Theatre, Theatre in the X, Shakespeare in Clark Park, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, and Playbill among many others. Noelle is also the owner and founder of ARTISTS HEAL LLC, a company designed to center and provide resources for Black and Global Majority Artists while offering self-liberated, inclusive, and equitable spaces for healing and expansion through artistic practice. Learn more at warmweathernoelle.com. IG: .
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02/11/2021

for (DG) JAM Director:
Ang Bey (they/them) is a Black, q***r storyteller from Southwest Philadelphia. They are the co-artistic director of Shoe Box Theatre Collective and the co-creative director of Wings of Paper Theatre Company. “I am committed to the transformative power of storytelling. I create to ignite decolonization, radical healing, and compassion. We must strive for the Utopia we will not live to see.” Instagram: angbey.com Directing: Little Dancer (Ursinus College), 154 Revisited: Sonnet 43 (Revolution Shakespeare), The Medusa Play (co-director; Shoe Box Theatre Collective) Upcoming: The Utopia Project (Friends Select School), Mt. Vernon Park Play (assistant-director; Shakespeare in Clark Park), Walk the Line (playwright; self-produced) Playwriting: Walk the Line (reading; Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival), 154 Revisited: Dandelion (Revolution Shakespeare), The Medusa Play (Shoe Box Theatre Collective; Barrymore Recommended). Ang is in the inaugural cohort of Jouska PlayWorks (Simpatico Theatre) Upcoming: Every Everyman (Lead Writer; Shakespeare in Clark Park); Twenty-Six (reading; Jouska PlayWorks) Acting: Days of (Re)Creation (“AX-OE”, “Annika”, and “Rez”; Philadelphia Theatre Company), 154 Revisited: Sonnet 43 (Revolution Shakespeare), Paul (“Jaz”; Shoe Box Theatre Collective), Field Calls (“Alex”; Lupine Performance Cooperative), Candles (“Amara”; Philadelphia Young Playwrights), Our Ouija Board… (“Saph”; On the Rocks), Twelfth Night (“Orsino”; Shakespeare in Clark Park), LP (AE Film), & Actors Ensemble (Sundance Directors Lab) Upcoming: Code BlackPlanet (The Wilma Theatre), No Tricks, Just Treats (“Sonja”; commercial; Angry Orchard/Draulhaus), exx….statis, e###…hale (“Dion”; Villanova Theatre), The American Revolution (Theatre Unspeakable), & The Niceties (“Zoe”; InterAct).

Get tickets to "First Quarter Moon" at https://bit.ly/39TqVZv.

Join us virtually for (DG) JAM on Saturday February 27th at 5:00pm EST, tickets are free. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3r4dOu7

02/01/2021

Got a play? Got a (woman/non-binary/trans) friend with a play? Submit it to the Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival at https://www.phillywomenstheatrefest.org/submissions

!! CALL FOR PLAYS !!

Learn more: https://www.phillywomenstheatrefest.org/submissions

The Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival is seeking playwright applications for our 2021 festival, centered around the theme "Hometown Heroes" (which is very open to your interpretation!).

Significant preference will be given to playwrights located within 60 miles of Center City Philadelphia.

To apply, please visit our website at http://phillywomenstheatrefest.org/submissions/. All submissions must include a completed application, digital version of your play (if it is still in process a 15 page sample is fine), resume and reference email by February 26, 2021

PWTF fosters and encourages people in the performing arts by offering unique opportunities for exposure, professional, artistic and personal development and a platform for performance. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion by embracing all people and viewpoints. PWTF aims to embrace intersectionality and serves women and non-binary artists of all colors and backgrounds. PWTF does not discriminate based on age, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, or disability.