The Educational Program of SheNYC Arts

Photo by Javier Dominguez

Up Next: CreateHER Alumni Playwriting Workshop

Saturday, March 22
10:30am-4pm

In this one-day course made especially for CreateHER and Open Stage Project Alumni, you’ll get a crash course that will jump-start your playwriting skills with fellow young theatermakers. Learn new skills like:

How to find and develop a unique new idea for a play
How to give your play a compelling structure
How to write creative, character-driven dialogue
And how to edit your work to perfection.

At the end of the day, you’ll have a completed new short play!

A select number of these plays will be selected for the Open Stage Project/CreateHER Spring Showcase, where they will be designed by a design team of OSP students and performed in a stage reading.

NO playwriting experience is required. After you sign up, we’ll email you with more details, including the class location. We plan to accommodate everyone who signs up, space permitting!

What is CreateHER?

CreateHER is a free course for NYC-based high school students who are girls or non-binary, and who are interested in writing and producing for theatre. Through the program, students are given the technical and creative tools to take their creativity from an idea to reality.

CreateHER provides high-level playwriting and producing courses as well as features guest speakers who are leaders in the industry: from producers and general managers, to groundbreaking playwrights, dramaturgs, and casting directors. By the end of the semester, the students write, produce, and present a short play of their own!

Applications for CreateHER 2024 are now closed. Check back here in summer 2025 for the next round of applications!

If you have any questions about CreateHER or would like to explore a partnership, feel free to reach out to [email protected].

Learn From Women Leading Theatre Today

Students take high-level playwriting and producing courses and hear from women leaders in theatre about the many career possibilities in the arts including: general management, company management, marketing, casting, and dramaturgy.

Showcase Your Own Voice

At CreateHER, every student is given the tools to write or produce an original short play. On the final day, all students present their original work, performed by professional actors, in front of an audience.

Want to support CreateHER? Donate today!

SheNYC is committed to keeping CreateHER free for all students, so we depend on donations to keep the program alive. Consider making a tax-deductible donation today to support us!

Donate