Wellesley Repertory Theatre Festival

September 24-30, 2025 | Wellesley College campus

The 2024-25 WRT Grant Recipients convene at Wellesley College to present their work for the public and campus community

This September, Wellesley College Theatre–the Theatre Studies Program and Wellesley Repertory Theatre–will host the first biennial Wellesley Repertory Theatre Festival showcasing the work of the Wellesley Repertory Theatre Grant Recipients, Wellesley College grads, and students in the performing arts. To take place over one week, the Festival will include presentations, readings, workshops, and panels by grads and students sharing their multidisciplinary performance work.

All events are free and open to the public!

The Festival includes three presentations by our WRT Grantees:

  • FLOOD SENSOR AUNTY

    directed and written by Sabina Sethi Unni

    Saturday 9/27 at 5pm
    Sunday 9/28 at 3pm

    Halfway between really funny devised theater and culturally competent community disaster prevention, this piece is about how the best way to protect yourself from flooding, climate change, and despair is through knowing your neighbors.

  • SLOW MOTION CUMBIA: STAGES (I)

    by Maia Macdonald
    directed by Krystine Summers
    ft. The Sombras

    Saturday 9/27 at 7pm

    A syncretic, adaptable work in process, moving from haunted reckoning to creation amidst crisis. Based on new music.

  • THE ACTRESS WHO DIED A THOUSAND DEATHS

    Co-created by Cinthia Chen and Annie Jin Wang
    Conceived by Cinthia Chen

    Tuesday 9/30 at 7pm

    In a surreal dreamscape, legendary film star Anna May Wong comes face-to-face with her younger self in the nascent years of Hollywood's Orientalist obsessions, and retakes control of the camera's Gaze.

About our WRT Grant Recipients:

  • Sabina Sethi Unni

    Sabina Sethi Unni is a public theater artist, community organizer, and urban planner dedicated to telling funny stories about our crumbling infrastructure (and neighbors organizing to save it) in public spaces. She’s proudest of performing in open spaces in every corner of her city: Hunts Point Riverside Park, Travers Park, Queens Botanical Garden, Qahwah House Astoria, Washington Square Park, Newkirk Open Street, La Plaza Cultural, Domino Square, Queens College, Lt. Frank McConnell Park, Rockaway Beach, Gowanus Dredgers Community Boathouse, Fordham University, Snug Harbor Botanical Garden, PYO Chai, Edgemere Farm, Orchard Alley Community Garden, Rockaway Community Park, Loisaida United Community Garden, the Astoria Food Pantry, 31st Avenue Open Street, PS Family NYC, & more if you let her! 

  • Maia Macdonald

    Maia Macdonald (b.1983) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and producer living in Brooklyn, NY. Grounded in sound, her work explores the tension between the seen and unseen, tracing concentric circles through iterative projects across mediums. Maia has spent the past five years creating her upcoming album, Slow Motion Cumbia. Stages (I), a collaboration with director Krystine Summers, is a long awaited theatrical exploration of its themes.

  • Annie Jin Wang

    Annie Jin Wang is a first-generation Chinese-American dramaturg for new plays, musicals, and opera. From new play development to revitalizing classic texts for today’s audiences, Annie’s body of work primarily investigates constructs of race, gender, and citizenship through a compassionate and critical lens. Collaborations with Cinthia Chen include: Salesman 之死 (Yangtze Rep, Obie Award for Outstanding New Play), Untitled Seagull Project (Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab), and Bloodlines (Fault Line Theater’s Irons in the Fire); projects in development include The Actress Who Died A Thousand Deaths and 7 Nights in Augustine

    As a dramaturg, Annie is currently supporting new projects in development at Beth Morrison Projects, Signature Theatre, Fresh Ink Theatre & CHUANG Stage, and NYC PAC. She is currently guest faculty at BerkleeNYC and adjunct faculty at Marymount Manhattan College. MFA: Columbia University; BAs: Wellesley College.

Events:

Saturday September 27

5pm: Flood Sensor Aunty
Alumnae Hall Amphitheater

7pm: Slow Motion Cumbia: Stages (I)
Alumnae Hall Auditorium

Sunday September 28

1:30pm: Film Screening of Making Slow Motion Cumbia: Stages (I)
a behind the scenes process film
Collins Cinema

3pm: Flood Sensor Aunty
Alumnae Hall Amphitheater

4pm: Community Gathering
Reception in Alumnae Hall Ballroom

Monday September 29

6:30pm-9:30pm: Open Rehearsal for The Actress Who Died A Thousand Deaths
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

Tuesday September 30

7pm: The Actress Who Died A Thousand Deaths
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

This calendar will continue to be updated as we add events - stay tuned!

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