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Women on Top Series – Theatre Festival
Founded in 2016, the Strand Theater’s Women on Top Series presents an annual, curated series of innovative projects by women theatre-makers. The program offers meaningful, project-based support for women artists to develop and present new works that will have a significant impact for the artists and the artistic and broader community in the region, while upholding the Strand Theater’s mission of amplifying women’s voices on stage and off.
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Introducing 2017 Series Lineup
Photo by Brion McCarthy
Full Circle Dance Company Presents - She Rises: Strength, Soul, Survival
April 8, 9, 29, 30
Fridays-Saturdays at 8pm, Sunday at 2:30pm
She Rises is an evening of intimate works by choreographers from the region and beyond that together shine a light on women’s creativity, individuality, and resilience. Touching on such issues as race, motherhood, history and memory, and perseverance, these works invite the audience on a journey that is both physical and emotional.
Artistic Director: Donna L. Jacobs
Featured choreographers: Donna L. Jacobs (Ellicott City MD), Hope Brown Byers (Columbia MD), Travis Gatling (Athens OH), Allison Powell (Westminster MD), Theresa DeAngelo (Lutherville MD), and Jennifer Seye (Sykesville MD).
April 8, 9, 29, 30
Fridays-Saturdays at 8pm, Sunday at 2:30pm
She Rises is an evening of intimate works by choreographers from the region and beyond that together shine a light on women’s creativity, individuality, and resilience. Touching on such issues as race, motherhood, history and memory, and perseverance, these works invite the audience on a journey that is both physical and emotional.
Artistic Director: Donna L. Jacobs
Featured choreographers: Donna L. Jacobs (Ellicott City MD), Hope Brown Byers (Columbia MD), Travis Gatling (Athens OH), Allison Powell (Westminster MD), Theresa DeAngelo (Lutherville MD), and Jennifer Seye (Sykesville MD).
Photo by Kevin Stanley Photography. Graphic Design by Justin Isett
Sally McCoy by Alice Stanley
April 21-23
Friday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
In the midst of the first gruesomely violent event of the legendary Hatfield and McCoy feud, one woman
does what she must to save her family. Sally McCoy tells a harrowing and deeply personal story, while
also taking a hard look at women’s role in history.
April 21-23
Friday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
In the midst of the first gruesomely violent event of the legendary Hatfield and McCoy feud, one woman
does what she must to save her family. Sally McCoy tells a harrowing and deeply personal story, while
also taking a hard look at women’s role in history.
Image by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
The A Word by Rosemary Frisino Toohey
May 17-21
Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
THE A WORD looks at the pressures exerted by love, family, career, religion and society on
four young women. A high school senior in a single parent household, the wife of a wealthy
businessman in India, a young black woman struggling to make her name in an all-white office,
and a happily-married mom who’s told her unborn baby has big problems …four women, four
takes on a controversial subject.
May 17-21
Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
THE A WORD looks at the pressures exerted by love, family, career, religion and society on
four young women. A high school senior in a single parent household, the wife of a wealthy
businessman in India, a young black woman struggling to make her name in an all-white office,
and a happily-married mom who’s told her unborn baby has big problems …four women, four
takes on a controversial subject.