Mission

The mission of the Hamilton-Gibson Women's Project is to provide opportunities for women of all ages to enrich and empower their lives through community performing arts. We will create more and diverse roles for women in plays and offer workshops on the full range of theatre skills. As an incubator for female creativity, we will enrich Hamilton-Gibson Productions by funneling trained and talented women into positions onstage and backstage, in the green room and the boardroom.

HGWP 2022 

TICKETS

PERFORMANCES
November 11, 12, 13, 18, and 19
Warehouse Theatre

​Produced by Kacy Hagan
Directed by Linda Young
A full-length comedy with 5 females and 2 males
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Summary: Land-bound former mermaids Coral and Oceana run a seaside B&B and cafe called Sea Hags that is in much need of repairs and customers.  Hilarity ensues when they hear of a young mermaid who rescued a Coast Guard lieutenant, and they rush into action to save her from making the same mistakes they made 30 years ago.

Cast:
Coral: Anne Acker of Wellsboro
Oceana: Pat Balon of Painted Post
Marina: Judith Sornberger of Wellsboro
Sheila: Robin Gaige of Corning 
Pearl: Lexa VanDusen of Westfield
Floyd: Brett Kennedy of Wellsboro
Nathan: Elliot Worthington of Wellsboro

Activities

Whether you like the spotlight or the backstage blue light—and even if you only have a day here and there—you can be part of HGWP!

SET DESIGN WORKSHOP
Saturday, September 17   9 a.m.
Second Floor, Deane Center, 104 Main Street
Instructor: Linda Young

Learn how to envision a performance space and its possibilities, get ideas from a script, and in small groups create a set design. Linda’s hands-on and visual approach makes envisioning options easy and helps avoid spatial miscalculations. Lunch will be provided. 
 
The set design workshop will not involve anything physical--yet. Attendees are encouraged to come to the set building workshop in October (yet to be scheduled). This will be focused on building the set for the November HGWP production of Foolish Fish Girls and the Pearl.
 
Participants can come to one or both of these workshops.  RSVP to:  HamiltonGibsonprod@gmail.com

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About

The Hamilton-Gibson Women's Project began in 2016 as a result of the realization that more women than men audition for HG plays, and that there were often more roles for men than for women.  Barbara Biddison, Linda Iseri, and Lilace Guignard volunteered to work together to provide leadership to address this clear need.  In 2018 Jessie Thompson joined Barbara and Lilace at the helm, after Linda Iseri left the area.

HGWP helps women connect in a variety of ways in the context of theatre arts. Since its inception, women have had greater opportunities to act, but also to write, direct, design (sets and lights), run sound and light boards, and produce eclectic entertainment for Northcentral Pennsylvania. Some seasons there are opportunities for men to act, direct, help backstage, and take workshops. We are grateful for several grants over the years from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and for our loyal sponsors.
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Take a look at what the HGWP has done over the years! Our history