Wellesley Repertory Theatre Festival
September 24-30, 2025 | Wellesley College campus
The 2024-25 WRT Grant Recipients convene at Wellesley College to present their work for the public and campus community
This September, Wellesley College Theatre–the Theatre Studies Program and Wellesley Repertory Theatre–will host the first bi-annual Wellesley Repertory Theatre Festival showcasing the work of the Wellesley Repertory Theatre Grant Recipients, Wellesley College grads, and students in the performing arts. To take place over one week, the Festival will include performances, readings, workshops, and panels by grads and students sharing their multidisciplinary performance work.
WRT Grant Recipients bring their work to campus
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TITLE TBA - Maia Macdonald
Maia Macdonald (Class of ‘06) is an interdisciplinary artist and producer living in Brooklyn, NY. The WRT Grant will fund the development of an immersive stage show built around a deep new body of musical work, traversing ancestral timelines, fragments of memory, and the reconciliation of multiple truths.
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FLOOD SENSOR AUNTY - Sabina Sethi Unni
Sabina Sethi Unni (Class of ‘19) is a public theater artist, community organizer, and urban planner who tells funny stories about our changing climate in public spaces. Flood Sensor Aunty is about a flood sensor working at her aunt’s chai shop who really wants to be a movie star. Halfway between really funny public theater and community disaster prevention, this devised show is about how the best way to protect yourself from flooding, climate change, and despair is through knowing your neighbors.
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ANNA MAY WONG: THE ACTRESS WHO DIED A THOUSAND DEATHS - Annie Jin Wang
Annie Wang (Class of ’14) is a first-generation Chinese-American dramaturg for new plays, musicals, and opera. Anna May Wong takes place in a surrealist dreamscape within Asian American screen icon Anna May Wong’s mind and memories, exploring the racial, gender, class, and cultural tensions an ambitious Chinatown girl faced as she became a Hollywood actress.