Jessica Dickey's ROW AFTER ROW, Catherine Trieschmann's THE MOST DESERVING & More Set for Women's Project Theater's 2013-14 Season

Women's Project Theater, the 36-year-old non-profit company dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, will present its 2013-2014 season of new plays at New York City Center Stage II, 131 West 55th Street, January 15 to May 4, Julie Crosby, Producing Artistic Director announced.

"We're celebrating our 36th season with plays that wrestle with the notion of cultural currency, and how art and history are assigned value in America today. Who decides what's fit to print...or paint or record for posterity?" said Ms. Crosby, whose controversial season last year included Bethany, Jackie and Collapse.

Jessica Dickey's play Charles Ives Take Me Home just ran at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (who nominated it for the Susan Blackburn Prize), for which Jessica was hailed as "a talent to watch". She is perhaps best known for her one woman show The Amish Project, which premiered at the New York Fringe before transferring to Cherry Lane and then opening at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater to great acclaim from audience and critics alike. Charles Ives Take Me Home is already slated for the City Theatre in Pittsburgh next season.

The Architecture of Becoming February 25 through March 23
Written by Kara Lee Corthron, Sarah Gancher, Dipika Guha, Virginia Grise and Lauren Yee; directed by Elena Araoz, Lydia Fort, and Lauren Keating; produced by Deadria Harrington, Jane Jung, Meropi Peponides, Aktina Stathaki, and Lanie Zipoy

The writers are: Kara Lee Corthron, whose plays include Etched in Skin on a Sunlit Night (InterAct), AliceGraceAnon (New Georges), and Holly Down in Heaven(Forum). Her awards include Princess Grace, Helen Merrill, and MacDowell Fellowships. She's a Julliard alumna. Sarah Gancher has been produced/developed at London's National Theatre, Edinburgh's Traverse, Budapest's Quarter6Quarter7 Festival, PS 122, La Mama, Ars Nova, Telluride Theatre. She is a member Ars Nova Play Group. She holds a 2013 Founder's Award from New York Stage and Film. Virginia Grise awards include 2011 Asuncion Queer Playwriting Award, 2010 Yale Drama Series Award and 2010 Princess Grace Award in Directing. Her published work:The Panza Monologues (University of Texas Press) and blu (Yale University Press). Dipika Guha's recent plays include The Betrothed (Chester Theatre Company, Wellfleet Harbour Actors Theatre), Passing (Risk Is This Festival, Cutting Ball) and Herculine and Lola (workshops OSF, Wordbridge). She is an Ars Nova Playgroup Alum and Dramatists Guild Fellow. Her current commission is from New Georges. Lauren Yee: Ching Chong Chinaman (Pan Asian, Mu, Impact), Hookman (Company One), The Hatmaker's Wife (Playwrights Realm, Moxie). Her plays have been developed at O'Neill Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, PlayPenn and her commissions have been from LCT3, Mixed Blood, and Encore.

The directors are: Elena Araoz, whose credits include La traviata (New York City Opera/BAM) and; Phallacy, Three on a Couch, and Thirst Off Broadway. She has also directed Midsummer (Prague Shakespeare), The Power (Beijing), Mac Wellman plays (ArtsEmerson), Lawnpeople (Cherry Lane), and Falstaff (Brooklyn Philharmonic/BAM). Lydia Fort has directed at The McCarter, The Public, freeFall and New Federal Theatre. She is a Drama League Fellow and TCG New Generations Grantee. MFA, University of Washington. Lauren Keating has directed The Harmonious Pimps of Harmony's Last Show (Ars Nova) and Al's Business Cards (AtPlay/Old Vic). She is an NYU/Tisch Alumni and a Drama League Directors Project and a New Directors/New Works Fellow.

The producers are: Deadria Harrington is a Producing Artistic Leader of The Movement Theatre Company for which she is credited with 4 Sustenance (Greener Planet Award Recipient) and look upon our lowliness by Harrison David Rivers (Lead Producer). Jane Jung is General Manager of Ping Chong + Company and producer for Little Lord, a Brooklyn-based theater company. Meropi Peponides is co-founder of radical evolution performance company, producing assistant at The Public Theater and a graduate of the MFA theatre program at Columbia University. Aktina Stathaki is founder of Between the Seas Festival of Mediterranean Performing Arts. She is freelance actor, director and producer and a graduate of the National Greek Theater and University of Toronto. Lanie Zipoy was associate producer for Bethany (Women's Project Theater). She also produced Universal Robots (ITBA's Best Off-Off Broadway Play), Caroline, or Change(Brooklyn Premiere) and Voices Inside/Out.

The Most Deserving March 30 through May 4
By Catherine Trieschmann, directed by Shelley Butler
A county Arts Council in Kansas, giving away the largest individual artist grant in its history, must agree on who is the most deserving. When a professor from the local community college makes a case for an unconventional outsider, the council braces for battle. The Most Deserving is a tart, satirical comedy about what happens when the arts collide with sex, class, and politics.

Catherine Trieschmann's plays include The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock, crooked, How the World Began, Hot Georgia Sunday and The Most Deserving. Her work has been produced Off-Broadway at Women's Project Theater, Bush Theatre (London), Out of Joint at the Arcola Theatre (London), South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Denver Theater Center, and Florida Stage, among others. She has received commissions from South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Denver Theatre Center. She is the recipient of the Weissberger Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award from the Inge Theatre Festival, and The Edgerton New Play Award. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Angel's Crest, released by Magnolia Pictures. Originally from Athens, Georgia, she now lives in a small town in western Kansas.

Shelley Butler is directing a preview production of Catherine Trieschmann's The Most Deserving at Denver Center Theatre Company. Recent credits includeThis is Fiction by Megan Hart, starring Richard Masur at Cherry Lane (InViolet Rep), The Borrowers, (South Coast Repertory), No Way to Treat a Lady (The Colony Theater), world premieres of Christina Gorman's Sacred Ground (Stella Adler), Ruth McKee's The Nightshade Family (SPF), John Glore's adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time (South Coast Repertory) and Eric Coble's Straight On 'Til Morning (Great Lakes Theater Festival).