The SheNYC Spring Fundraising Challenge
Your donation goes directly toward producing film & theater by women, trans, & non-binary artists.
The Spring Fundraising Challenge is where each SheNYC team member gets 30 people to donate $30 each during the 30 days of May, OR $900. Use this page to make your contribution!
Founded in 2015, SheNYC Arts is the country's premier nonprofit supporting women, trans, & non-binary artists as they pursue leadership careers in the entertainment industry. We give them the tools they need to succeed as playwrights, producers, composers, directors, and more in the form of training, physical resources, mentorship, networking, and performance opportunities.
We founded SheNYC as a group of women working in the Broadway and off-Broadway industry, witnessing first-hand the gender disparity in the upper echelons of the industry, and experiencing the barriers women face that keep them from leadership roles. We started counting: In a typical season, 90% of the shows on Broadway are written by men.
But when shows written by women make it to Broadway, they stand out: Broadway shows written by women earn 19% more in weekly box office receipts than shows written exclusively by men.
Our programs are aimed at fixing the "pipeline issue" by eliminating the many barriers to entry that women face as they pursue sustainable careers in the entertainment industry, from school to Broadway and Hollywood. Our writers & composers are all chosen by a totally open, anonymous submissions process with no pre-requisites required.
- The SheNYC Summer Theater Festival, which presents 8 full-length plays & musicals by women writers each year - in 2025, at Classic Stage Company!
- The SheLA Summer Theater Festival, which presents 5 full-length plays & musicals in Hollywood's Zephyr Theatre each year
- The SheATL Summer Theater Festival, which presents 4 full-length plays & musicals at 7Stages in Atlanta, Georgia each summer
- The SheDFW Summer Theater Festival, which premiered in 2024 and will enter its second year in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2025
- Sheepwell, our first-ever feature film adapted from the play that shocked and wowed audiences at our SheNYC Festival in 2022
- CreateHER, a career training program for high school students who identify as girls and non-binary, where they learn how to be playwrights and producers from the top women working in the field
- And more networking and educational programs throughout the year!