What Do the Women Say? 2025

General auditions are to be held on Monday, February 17 – with show-specific auditions for The Return, Pilgrimage, and ORIENTAL continuing the following week. We are excited to see actors of all backgrounds and experience levels.

PLAYWRIGHTS! We’re now accepting submissions for the 2026 ReOrient Festival of Short Plays. Please check out the eligibility guidelines and submit your 10-30 minute play by April 30, 2025.

In this co-production with Hakawati NGO, Syrian-Armenian-American theatre and film artist Sona Tatoyan, stranded in her family’s abandoned Aleppo home during the Syrian war, discovers her great-great-grandfather’s handmade Karagöz shadow puppets, salvaged from the Armenian Genocide.