Venus Theatre is an award winning professional theatre company.  Our professional plays are judged by and eligible for DC's Helen Hayes Awards.

Outstanding Achievements Include:

The Helen Hayes Mead Award for Artistic Directors

The Helen Hayes American Express Award

2004 Curve Magazine Play of the Year Award

2005 Curve Magazine Play of the Year Award

2004 nomination for the American Theatre Critics Award

here's just a brief recollection of some wonderful collaborations... 

chris wind

"Not Such Stuff"

chris wind explores the depths of the characters and reveals their interior journeys with poetic text that ripples along the edges of cognition and madness.  Debbie Jackson, DC Theatre Scene

Julianne Homokay

"Homokay's Medea"

Homokay’s Medea is a witty and amusing take on some of the most vexing emotional issues known to man and woman kind.  Homokay is a prolific and talented writer who currently works on the absurdly funny “The Late Late Show” with Craig Ferguson. Her characterizations, theatrical moments and witty dialog cackle with astute observations and energy that’s hard to find around these parts and shouldn’t be missed.  Debbie Jackson, DC Theatre Scene

"Sisters Lunching by the Seaside"

"Cottonmouth"

 Vanda

"Why'd Ya Make Me Wear This Joe?"

As a world premiere, Why’d Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe? is a rich lattice-work of moments, beats, and characters to be explored and fine-tuned with loving care. The piece is a treasured reminder of the pace and values of time gone by, with priceless snippets from Glen Miller and “The Shadow” on the radio. It offers interesting “what if” possibilities heightening and expanding our awareness of what we thought we knew.  And that’s always a delightful discovery which Venus Theatre can be trusted to consistently provide.  Debbie Jackson, DC Theatre Scene

Jacob M. Appel

"Helen of Sparta"

 So what would happen if Homer, the playwright, had written for ‘Saturday Night Live’?  You’d end up with something like Helen of Sparta, Venus Theatre’s campy mish-mash of ancient Greece and modern culture.  Ted Ying, DC Theatre Scene

Carolyn Gage

"The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women"

Directed by Kerri Rambo to critical acclaim from the Washington Post

"Ugly Ducklings"

This went on to be further produced and turned into a documentary by Fawn Yacker.  Today Ugly Duckling kits are used by Northern schools to teach tolerance.  A nonprofit named Hardy Girls has been formed as a result of the project.

"Sappho In Love"

"The Gage and Mr. Comstock"

"The Spindle" 

"Rules of the Playground"

"The Goddess Tour"

Cynthia Cooper 

"How She Played the Game"

"Sor Juana"

 "Tru Luv"

L.J. Voss

"The Hen Gets a Flag"

"Tiny Madmen"

"A Little Rebellion Now"

"Wolf Wistle"

"Pyschodrama" 

Migdalia Cruz

"Cigarettes and Moby Dick" 

John Ford Noonan

"All She Cares About Is the Yankees" 

Aoise Stratford

"Oh, Baby!"

Mary F. Casey

"Women and Horses and a Shot Straight From the Bottle"

Linda Suzuki

"Just Sex (Jazz Hands)"

"All My Silence Is Yours "

Dave Carley

"The Edible Woman"

based on the novel by Margaret Atwood 

Kimberly Moore

"The Ballad of Step-Off Girl"