Those Women Productions gives the stage to unheard stories. We explore the intersections of gender, power, and identity, inviting all audiences to join the conversation.
Vision
We envision a world in which people of all genders and races are the protagonists of their own stories.
Values
We believe that stories matter.
We challenge stereotypes.
We eliminate financial barriers to theater attendance.
We aim to engage the heart, provoke thought, and instigate conversation.
History
When we were as yet too young for other sorts of debauchery to hold much appeal, we fell in love with great stories. Mostly these were stories by Dead White Guys. Homer and Chaucer, Shakespeare and Sophocles, myths and folklore of every variety, we loved them all. To this day, we are subject to their power—they make our heads spin and our pulses race. But we also recognize that in these classic tales, the voices of women are often silenced and their lives relegated to the margins. That’s a sobering fact. And we’d rather stay giddy with the joy of tales worth telling. So, on International Women’s Day 2014 we formed Those Women Productions to explore classic stories from new angles.
~ Carol S. Lashof & Elizabeth L. Vega April 21, 2014
Our inaugural production was Just Deserts, retelling the origin myth of trial by jury from the vantage point of the avenging furies.
