To support women playwrights around the world by: - bringing international attention to their achievements - encouraging production of their plays - translation, publication, and international distributions of their works. - providing means for communication and contact among the sister community of the world's women dramatists Assisting them in - developing the tools of their craft - in determining their own artistic forms - in setting their own critical standards - encouraging scholarly and critical examination and study of the history and the contemporary work and concerns of women playwrights - supporting their efforts to gain professional equality, and to express their own personal, artistic, social, and political vision without censorship, harassment, or personal danger. ICWP has since 2011 given the first International Awards to Professional Theatres around the world which spend their budgets 50/50 equally between male and female playwrights.

ICWP Inc.

• is a registered not-for-profit organisation with the Internal Revenue Service of USA
  Registration granted retrospectively from February 11th 2000.
  DLN: 17053307013026
• is a virtual organisation with no physical base
• is legally incorporated as a not-for-profit organisation in the state of Ohio, USA
• is run by volunteer playwrights, directors, performers who give up some of their time to ensure women playwrights from various countries and cultures can discuss and develop their work.
• is not a producing, funding or grant-giving organisation.

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