Promoting theatre and music projects from the perspective of women+ for 20 years.

Co-Artistic Directors

KAREN BERMAN

Karen Berman has directed over 200 plays and musicals at locations from the Smithsonian to off-Broadway. As co-founder and co-artistic director of Washington Women in Theatre she has directed and produced numerous new plays for WWIT including Astra, Uncle Julie, and On the Road to Havana, among others. She is past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a dean emerita of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. She received the Georgia Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2017. After teaching at Georgetown University for 15 years she was chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Georgia College (GC) for 12 years. She directed and co-wrote four original plays about Czech heroes that WWIT co-produced with GC students performed in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016 in Prague and at an international theatre festival in the Czech Republic. She is currently co-editing a two-volume book entitled Stories of the Holocaust Onstage and In Concert: Art for Healing and Renewal (Volume One) and Stories of the Holocaust On Screen and In the Gallery: Art for Healing and Renewal (Volume II).

Susan Lynskey’s work has garnered multiple Helen Hayes nominations for Outstanding Lead/ Supporting Actress and Outstanding Acting Ensemble, The DCTS Audience Choice Award and Individual Artist Awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Susan is a DCCAH 2023 Artist Fellowship award winner. She has recently appeared twice Off-Broadway and has an extensive roster of regional productions; DC, and its extraordinary theatre community, are her Artistic home. Susan just finished a tour-de-force run as ‘Gloria’ in Gloria: A Life, at Theater J, portraying feminist activist-author Gloria Steinem, (attended by Ms. Steinem herself, Eleanor Holmes-Norton and Justice Sonia Sotomayor opening night)—an important feminist work by Emily Mann which uplifts and celebrates the women’s movement, Steinem, Flo Kennedy, Dorothy Pittman-Hughes, Bella Abzug and others and their dedication to women’s rights and the fight for equality. Lynskey is dedicated to new work development that centers womxn’s voices, our contributions to the past and present and work that paves a way for future art and artistrts.

Laurie Mufson is a faculty emeritus of Mercersburg Academy, and was inaugural holder of the Palmer Family Chair in the Arts. Over a 23 year career there, she served as Arts Department Chair, Director of The Burgin Center for the Arts, Director of Theatre and Director of the Arts. Before moving to PA, Laurie was an active member of the Washington DC theatre community. She served on the board of the Actors Center and directed new plays for Source Theatre Company’s Washington Theatre Festival ( Best Director for Burying Fiona by Jeanie Marshall in 1996). Laurie also directed for The American Century Theatre and received a special citation by the Maryland House of Delegates for her work as Artistic Director for Potomac Theater Company in 1998. Her acting career has included stage, television and film work. Laurie is a certified Lessac Kinesensics bodyvoice trainer and served on the Board of Lessac Training and Research Institute as President and is currently on its Executive Leadership Team as past president.