programs: Word for Word Performing Arts Company

Founded in 1993 by Susan Harloe and JoAnne Winter, Word for Word is a professional theatre company that stages short stories, performing every word the author has written. Our goals are to excite people about the written word, to inspire them to read more, to create new audiences for the theatre, and to share the world's diverse cultures and stories. This program annually employs more than 100 Bay Area theater professionals while attracting more than 20,000 people each year to public performances.

"Their brilliant inventiveness in performance, choreography, and staging, has created a new art form, and a deeply affecting experience."
-- Tobias Wolff

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Founders
Susan Harloe, Artistic Director
JoAnne Winter, Artistic Director

Charter Group
Sheila Balter
Jeri Lynn Cohen
Stephanie Hunt
Amy Kossow
Delia MacDougall
Wendy Radford
Nancy Shelby
Patricia Silver

Friends of Word For Word
Greg Sarris, Honorary President

Authors Council
Julia Alvarez
Dorothy Bryant
Sandra Cisneros
Paul Fleischman
Richard Ford
Ellen Gilchrist
Joanne Greenberg
Daniel Handler
Barbara Kingsolver
Octavio Solis
Amy Tan
Tobias Wolff

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