3Girls Theatre’s 2025 New Works Festival: Seen and Heard at KALW Event Space

Women+ Playwrights are Seen & Heard in 3Girls Theatre’s 2025 New Works Festival

3Girls Theatre Company develops, promotes, and presents new plays by emerging SF Bay Area women+ playwrights over 40. Founded in 2011 to challenge gender bias within theater, 3GT provides dedicated support to a cohort that is multiracial, intergenerational, and includes cis and trans women, gender non-conforming AFAB (assigned female at birth) artists, and trans men. 

The 2025 New Works Festival is a celebratory culmination of new plays by women+ playwrights whose work has been in development through 3GT’s Reading Series. In honor of 3GT’s partnership with KALW, the 2025 NWF theme is Seen and Heard, and will feature the work of SF Bay Area artists collaborating on multiple projects by 3GT playwrights. Plays are presented as staged readings where a director has worked with the actors rehearsing and blocking in order to enhance the theatrical experience. Join us as we discover what it means to be seen and heard through these innovative new works.

What: 3Girls Theatre’s 2025 New Works Festival: Seen and Heard

When: Friday-Sunday March 7th-16th

Where: KALW Event Space 220 Montgomery Street, SF

Time: Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm; Sundays at 2pm

Tickets: Sliding scale tickets ranging from $15-$100 available at 3GirlsTheatre.org

VIP Festival Passes for all 6 events available for $125

Pay-what-you-can tickets available at the door. 3GT practices radical hospitality - nobody is ever turned away for lack of funds. More information at 3GirlsTheatre.org

La Mamá Chingona by Marcia Aguilar Kailan

La Mamá Chingona is a play about Terra, a Chicana in a fool's pursuit of motherhood. It’s also about La Malinche, the mother of Mexico or a traitor or a hero, who finally tells her side of the story. They are connected through time and space using surreality and comedy. Friday, 3/7/25 @ 7pm

Seen & Heard Panel and Donor Reception featuring 3GT Playwrights

What does it mean to be Seen and Heard as an emerging women+ writer over age 40 in 2025? The 2025 New Works Festival features new works by SF Bay playwrights in 3GT’s cohort. Join us for a panel hosted by KALW to hear from 3GT writers and collaborators about their experiences as ‘older’ emerging playwrights. What are the barriers they face? What do they need and want? What does being part of the 3GT community mean to them? A celebratory reception will follow. Saturday, 3/8/25 @ 7pm

The Trees a Musical by Kristy Lin Billuni

“I do not want anyone else with me but you,” President Teddy Roosevelt wrote to naturalist John Muir before their historic campout. The Trees is an eco-homo-erotic musical by Larry D. Lariosa, Kristy Lin Billuni, and Tony Howard, where singing Trees invite the audience to interrogate two progressive heroes and reimagine this American folklore as a queer fantasia that heals us and our planet. Sunday, 3/9/25 @ 2pm

In the Shadow of Mt. Fuji by Cathy Midori Stonie

This modern adaptation of a Japanese folktale and supernatural mystery follows one man’s journey through love and loss. Born into a society steeped in ancient traditions and ultra-modern culture, Isamu, a lonely, unmarried man, is an outlier. His loving and exasperated mother does not let him forget it. A horrific event years ago leads him deeper into isolation. He starts to write a manga, a graphic novel. But he cannot finish it. What is he writing about? And what does Mt. Fuji have to do with any of this? Friday, 3/14/25 @ 7pm

AC/DC by elaine magree

A nurse and her colleagues navigate the highs and lows of human connection within their  hospital walls during the height of the pandemic. In a parallel fantasy universe, a long-dreamed-of trip to Europe, originally planned for March 2020, becomes a testament to the healing power of imagination. Meanwhile, the arrival of an unexpected grandchild brings a profound and vulnerable kind of love, posing the ultimate question: In a world filled with uncertainty and inevitable loss, why risk loving at all? Saturday, 3/15/25 @ 7pm

Tell’n Tales and Roll’n Eyes by Victoria Evans Erville

A hilarious and searing look at the shenanigans inside a midsize non-profit theater when three writers and the Artistic Director meet to set their upcoming season. The discussion turns acidic as the AD relishes the role of gatekeeper and the writers become intent on tearing down the gate and opening the theatre to the community. Sunday, 3/16/25 @ 2pm