Partnered for Empowerment

This year, Bechdel Project became one of the last remaining lifelines for feminist storytellers in NYC and demand for our free programs has now tripled. As developmental spaces continue to close, more than 800 artists relied on us in 2025 for free studio space, public programming, and the support necessary to keep creating in an increasingly hostile cultural climate.And even with commercial rental revenue cut in half and national arts funding contracting, we delivered one of our strongest years ever:1,500+ hours of free studio space and 35 free public events - a 50% increase in accessA landmark year for ROO Resident Nikki Brake-Sillá, including a two-week residency in Germany, attaching an award winning director to the project, a developmental workshop and reading at LPAC, and a forthcoming real moot-court collaboration with a DC HBCU law schoolFive new feminist plays developed through the FIFE Fellowship, including an O’Neill semifinalistA powerful expansion of the Interstate Initiat…