Registration will open on Friday, April 10 at 12 PM.
by Zoe Stanton-Savitz
Showtimes
Friday, May 1, 3:30 PM
Friday, May 1, 8 PM
Saturday, Mary 2, 3:30 PM
A museum for its patrons and a prison for its relics, FEMM is a place where women who behave outside of the patriarchal status quo are kept for their own safety. When Char is admitted to the “hysterics exhibition,” she meets four women who have been kept there for longer than they can remember—Ginny, an emotionally volatile recluse who touts complacency but is secretly manipulating her way to escape; Zee, an excitable harpy prone to fits of ecstasy; Via, an apathetic lover of morbidity; and Opi, who often gets lost in familiar places and speaks in strange hallucinogenic riddles. As Char enters their realm, she begins to discover a community among the madwomen but pushes them to begin exposing the injustices of the emporium.
About the Playwright
Zoe Stanton-Savitz is a third-year MFA playwright at Columbia University and a freelance sound designer. Productions include Selkie Woman, Rachel Berry Saved my Life, and Good Numbers (Columbia University), and Agatha (Sarah Lawrence College). Readings include: Agatha (Lakewood Playhouse New Voices Festival), Pennies for Forgotten Words (La Mama Manifestation Reading Series), and Twice Gone (Sarah Lawrence College First-Look Reading Series). Upcoming: Hazel and Bea in the In-Between will be presented as a workshop at Durango PlayFest in June 2026. Zoe was awarded the David Lindsay-Abaire Award for Excellence in Playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College and has been recognized by Distillery New Works, Jewish Playwright’s Project, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, TNT Pops!, Normal Ave’s NAPSeries playwriting festival, Think Tank Theatre’s TYA Playwrights Festival, and the Fresh Fruit Festival with All Out Arts. Recent sound design credits include: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, The Skriker, and The Bog Queen (Columbia), The Wolves (The New School), Little Katie (Harlot prod.), The Slide is the Negative (JCS), and Coriolanus (Nocturne). https://www.zoestanton-savitz.com/
About the New Plays Festival
Columbia University School of the Arts presents a festival of new plays written by the 2026 Columbia MFA Playwriting Cohort. The esteemed faculty who nurtured these students, including Tony©, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as James Ijames, Lynn Nottage, Rogelio Martinez, Blair Singer, Noelle Vinas, Charles L. Mee, Michael Korie, David Auburn, Leslie Ayvazian, and David Henry Hwang, invite everyone to experience these innovative new playwrights.
Organized by James Ijames, Theatre.