The Boudica Series: Women's Voices

                                    The Boudica Series

The Boudica Series will take place in New York City, during the evenings of the 22nd through the 27th of August at Urban Stages, just off Broadway. 

Our vision is three part. First is to present a weeklong festival of bold and brilliant women hosting talks, workshops, performances and readings on themes relevant to their wellbeing, creativity and empowerment. 

Secondly, the grand finale of the festival will feature an all-female retelling of the story of Joan of Arc by award winning writer and director, Dominique Sinagra. The piece uses stories of women and girls from around the world, including those of refugees, former child soldiers, African AIDS orphans, Untouchables in India, and women in the United States, weaving them into the fabric of the original Joan of Arc tale, celebrating the fierce and indomitable female spirit.

Thirdly, we will raise money, collect clothes and food to donate to a local women’s shelter. We intend for The Boudica Series to become an annual event. 

Women are a vital part of the tree of life, yet for millennia our voices have been oppressed and our bodies harmed. This has damaged the core of humanity. If we are to move into a more balanced paradigm, now is a time for a reckoning and now is the time for healing.

Through The Boudica Series we aim to give a voice to women who otherwise do not have one and a platform to explore aspects of the human experience often overlooked. Taking the women of The Boudica Series and combining them with the production of Joan of Arc, our goal becomes clear: create a global dialogue on what it means to be female today and how to better advance that reality.

 To successfully achieve our vision of the first annual Boudica Series, we need to raise $13,910. This figure allows for the completion of the Joan of Arc script, the rental of the Urban Stages’ space for one week, the salary for one full time organizer, the actors performing in the Joan of Arc reading, and one song writer for original pieces, an assistant director, and advertisement costs to promote the series.

Please consider giving to our event. If you would like any more information about the event  or a more detailed breadown of costs, please get in touch.

We would be more than grateful for any donation. Prizes for contributions are as follows:

$5,000 donation: 4 tickets to the entire Boudica Series and your name on the front of the program. 

$1,000 donation: 2 tickets to the entire Boudica Series and dinner with the organizers. 

$500 donation: a copy of the Joan of Arc script signed by the cast. 

$100 donation: a framed and signed poem by a featured poet. 

$50 donation: a Boudica Series t-shirt.

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Boudica, named after the British queen who led a revolt against Roman occupation, is a new theatre company founded in January 2016 by Dominique Sinagra. Our aim is to make cutting edge theatre that also benefits people’s lives in practical ways. 

We strive to achieve this by developing new work and adapting classic scripts in ways that make them relevant today. We are interested in immersive and space-specific theatre. Each of our productions partners with a charity, some productions actively incorporate the people the charity benefits, effectively bringing the audience face to face with the humanity of the cause. 

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