Wet: Women Expressive Theater
Art Director
WET Productions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1999 to empower women and girls by producing media that challenges female stereotypes and advocates for equality. WET develops, produces and promotes new material for theater, film, television and education.
LOVE
Annual benefit event to support WET Productions
LOVE, a one-night only event featuring short plays on the subject of love by some of the hottest female playwright read by celebrated actors, directed by Abby Epstein.
Love 2010, with Lynda Obst, Nora Ephron, and Maria Zuckerman, Alexandra Campos, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rosemarie DeWitt, Carla Gugino, Mamie Gummer, Ron Livingston, MaulikPancholy, Zachary Quinto, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jennifer Carpenter, Hamish Linklater and Rachel Dratch. With Plays by: Megan Mostyn-Brown, Julia Cho, Laura Eason, Sarah Treem, Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz. The event was held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation and sponsored by SELF Magazine, Yogaworks, Room & Board Home Furnishings, The Empire Hotel and JetBlueAirways.
LOVE 2009 featured performances by Debra Messing, Blythe Danner, Perrey Reeves, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Maulik Pancholy, David Alan Basche, John Lloyd Young, Tracie Thoms, Andre Royo, Alysia Reiner, JD Williams, Alex Frost, Sabine Singh, with plays by Jenny Lyn Bader, Annie Baker, Lucy Boyle, Laura Eason, Ann Marie Healy, Ellen Melaver, Susan Miller, Anna Ziegler.
LOVE 2008 featuring performances by Lauren Ambrose, Martha Plimpton, Jane Alexander, Ricki Lake, Neil Patrick Harris, Gretchen Mol, Peter Hermann, Laila Robins, Michael Cerveris, Josh Hamilton and Sabine Singh, with plays by Jenny Lyn Bader, Lucy Boyle, Brooke Berman, Julia Cho, Julia Jordan, Liz Tucillo and Francine Volpe.
Risk Takers – Created in 2004, WET’s Risk Takers Series is a free educational program for teenage girls designed to bolster girls’ self-esteem by teaching them invaluable media literacy and leadership skills that enable them to navigate the 21st century’s media saturated landscape with wisdom, consciousness, courage and strength. The program has served hundreds of New York City teenage girls from over 80 high schools in all five boroughs, with a unique curriculum, inspired in part by The New York Times best selling non-fiction book, Reviving Ophelia, Saving The Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, PhD.
The INKubator is WET’s development division, created to provide developmental support to women writers, producers, actors and directors. From note sessions, to workshops & public readings, to artistic residencies, The INKubator is designed to nurture women generated projects for the theater, film and television that challenge female stereotypes.
