With support from the California Arts Council, 3Girls Theatre (3GT) will develop, promote, and present new plays by San Francisco Bay Area women+ playwrights. 3GT is an artistic home for emerging playwrights who have been historically excluded from having their work produced: women over 40; Black, Indigenous, and women of color (BIWOC); and lesbian, bisexual, trans, nonbinary, and queer (LBTQ+) artists assigned-female-at-birth (AFAB). 3GT provides everything a playwright needs to bring their script from the page to the stage, including paid dramaturgs, directors, casts, performance venue, and marketing support.
With CAC funding, 3GT will host intensive script development workshops, present FREE professionally staged readings of new plays, and organize professional development and artistic services to nurture the careers of our women+ playwrights and other collaborating artists.
3GT is the only theatre company on the West Coast – and one of three nationwide – committed to exclusively developing and presenting theatre made by women+.
3GT provides an artistic home for San Francisco women+ playwrights (which includes cis and trans women, trans men, and nonbinary/genderqueer artists assigned-female-at-birth) at all stages of their creative and professional process:
-3GT’s Reading Series supports emerging women+ playwrights over 40
-3GT Investigates commissions teams of BIPOC women+ writers to research and dramatize social justice issues, connecting them with community partners
-3GT Workshops offer FREE creative and professional development opportunities throughout the year to support 3GT playwrights and engage other women+ artists in SF
-3GT Presents, our performance initiative, connects artists to audiences around SF
-Our biennial New Works Festival brings together all of our artists and their audiences
3GT assists our playwrights in finding further production and funding opportunities, and invites local theater producers to attend Staged Readings and encourages them to produce our scripts in upcoming seasons. These connections, costs, and technical expertise are daunting and prohibitive for emerging playwrights, especially senior women, queer and trans artists, and artists of color.
Because lack of reasonable compensation is continuously cited as a major barrier for low-income and BIPOC artists, we pay everyone fairly for their work.

