mission

Who Are We?

Woman's Will, the Bay Area's all-female Shakespeare company, exists to provide opportunities for women and girls to work together in a supportive yet challenging environment, to entertain and educate through high quality classes and performances, and to expand the boundaries in which audiences and artists see themselves.

Woman's Will is a multi-ethnic company that operates under a strict policy of non-discrimination and strives for triple accessibility at every event: all people must be able to reach our events, afford our events, and relate to our events.

Finally, and most importantly, we love our work, and it shows. Our actor- and text-based productions are both intelligent and visceral, yet clearly told so even the youngest members of your family can join in the fun. Relax with a picnic and some friends, and let us show you what wonders arise under the influence of a Woman's Will.

"Woman's Will proves itself the most imaginative-and one of the best-Shakespeare companies."- Callboard Magazine, August 2001

Notes from the Artistic Director

Every year, I work with a few women whose work I admire, but every year there are many more with whom I cannot work because there are so few good roles for women out there. This company arose from a desire to overcome this problem, to pull together talented women and create a supportive environment where we could grow and play. The decision to use Shakespeare's plays seemed an obvious one - his universal themes allow us to be relevant without any major textural changes, and our use of a unisex cast preserves the gender-bending reality of his original productions while allowing our audience to hear these classic lines from an entirely new perspective. Come see what all the fuss is about!

Woman's Will is a non-profit public benefit corporation. EIN is 90-0122067