Photo Flash: League of Professional Theatre Women Launches 35th Season at The Players Club

The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) launched its 35th season, championing women and leading the conversation about gender parity in the American theatre, on Tuesday, September 26th, at The Players Club on Gramercy Park. Scroll down for photos!

The event began with mingling. The co-presidents, Kelly Lynn Harrison and Lisa Rothe looked forward to the new year, in which LPTW will honor women like Betty Corwin, who founded the live theatre on film archives at Lincoln Center on November 8th, with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and Adelheid Roosen of the Netherlands, on October 23rd, with the LPTW Gilder-Coigney International Theatre Award (the only award of its kind, with nominees from around the globe, which honors international women in theatre), and celebrate women like Daryl Roth in our Oral History series on November 6th.

Visit www.theatrewomen.org for more information.

Photo Credit: Carlotta Brentan and Nina Galicheva

LPTW Board Members chat about the new season. Left to Right: Co-Secretary Frances McGarry, Co-Secretary Gwynn MacDonald, Co-VP Programming Ludovica Villar-Hauser.

Attendees at the LPTW 2017-2018 Season Launch at The Players Club on Tuesday, September 26th

LPTW members mingle and celebrate the 2017-18 season.

The League of Professional Theatre launched its 35th season, championing women and leading the conversation about gender parity in the American theatre on Tuesday, September 26th at The Players Club on Gramercy Park. The event began with mingling.

LPTW Playwrights (left to right) Penny Jackson and Jenny Lyn Bader

LPTW members mingle and celebrate the new season. Photo Credit: Carlotta Brentan

LPTW Mentoring Committee Chair Paula Ewin and new LPTW Apprentices mingle at the Season Launch.