2026: Now Seeking...YOU...to produce a STAR-STUDDED Reading!
How to Join The Movement!
For too long, the most powerful title in American theater — Producer — has belonged exclusively to those with the deepest pockets. This year, we're giving that power to you.
Dress of Fire is a play that has been called "a poem" — a sweeping, intimate reimagining of the fall of Troy told from inside the palace walls, through the voices of the women and wise men history forgot. Written by playwright Nina Kethevan over more than a decade of development, it is a work of rare ambition: ancient in its setting, urgent in its questions, and devastatingly human in its heart. Your contribution will fund an exclusive salon-style reading of Dress of Fire — featuring Broadway actors — taking place in Manhattan on October 1st and 2nd.
This intimate, invitation-only event (directed by Mindy Cooper) will bring the play to life for the first time before an audience of theater industry professionals, artists, and the people who made it possible: you. Every single person who contributes to this campaign — at any amount, even one dollar — becomes a producer of Dress of Fire. Your name will be displayed at the salon. You will be invited to attend. Your credit. Your stake in this story.
VISIT OUR FUNDING LINK TO JOIN US AS A BONA FIDE PRODUCER FOR AS LITTLE AS $1: www.fundrazr.com/DressOfFire
This is not charity. This is not a donation. This is an invitation to join a community of producers who believe that the most important stories belong to everyone — and that the power to bring them to life should too.
Playwright
Nina Kethevan
Was Gregor's violen-playing sister in Kafka's metamorphosis and Anna in Chekhov's Ivanov in Paris. Her Adaptation of Nijinsky's journal won unanimous praise! Reviews in Le Monde, Le Figaro, Elle, New York Herald Tribune had her invited to London's National Theatre for two guest performances in english. She recalls with amusement that having repeated so many times in both French and English Nijinsky's words: "I no longer dance as before because all dancers are death so now I write" (Which she substituted for I no longer act as before), she ended up by taking her own advice and began to write. When she met Joseph Brodsky in Manhattan he was teaching at Queens College; his frenzied passion for poetry made a lasting impression on her. Both French (Dress of Fire was read in Geneva Switzerland with the title of L'Habit de Feu) and readers of her play on both sides of the ocean have referred to it as "a poem".