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Kathie Rasmussen Women's Theatre
The Kathie Rasmussen Women's Theatre, founded in 2008 in Madison, WI, is a community theater company that promotes women playwrights and directors. The founders, Artistic Director Jan Levine Thal, Program Director Heather Renken, and Technical Director Ben Emerick, were joined in the first year by a number of active volunteers including Development Director Deanna Reed.

Welcoming both women and men to its ranks, the organization began with an ambitious project of workshopping plays by nine writers, performed fall 2009. The inaugural production of the Kathie Rasmussen Women's Theatre brought together work selected from a large number of submissions, exploring issues as intimate as family relationships and as global as the Middle East. And talking turtles. Comedies, dramas —at times whimsical, at times thought-provoking, at times both — these are original works by women writers whose voices deserve to be heard.



The Smart Women Project includes plays by Betty Diamond, Elena Hartwell, Kathleen Allison Johnson, LynleyShimat Lys, Karen Milstein, Gail Sterkel, Aoise Stratford, Amy White, and Andrea Varda.

Directed by Deanna Reed, the show was produced by Jan Levine Thal and Heather Renken for the Kathie Rasmussen Women's Theatre at TAPIT/new works Studio Theater, 1957 Winnebago Street, Madison

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