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The Women’s Project Theater: Good News At Last

July 29th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Philanthropy, Theater Leave a Comment

From the series: The Women's Project Theater

Lisa McNulty

Lisa McNulty, photo by Joan Marcus

The seasoned skipper who takes charge of a ship foundering in a storm has nothing on Lisa McNulty, the recently appointed artistic director of the Women’s Project Theater.

Lisa takes the place of Julie Crosby, unjustly and surely illegally fired without reason by the board after nine years of extraordinary leadership. By spearheading the arduous and ultimately successful drive to rid the theatre of the cumbersome old church (founder Julia Miles and I had, mistakenly as it turns out, helped WP to buy the building a decade ago), she saved the important work of women playwrights and directors from failing under a burden of maintenance costs. Once again, Julie proved that the brilliant work of theatre creatives has nothing to do with bricks and mortar.

The new skipper, Lisa McNulty, has years of work at the WP’s project behind her and knows New York theatre well. How fortunate that she is able to bring her maturity and wisdom to what is sure to be a difficult time, given the board she must dead with. We on the advisory board had asked the current board to resign, to no avail, and so Lisa must find a way to work with the current members, until gradually over time—we hope!—they are replaced by women who understand and support Julia Miles’ vision and legacy, which Lisa surely does, and will.

We will all be watching to see what sort of season Lisa constructs, and how actively the deservedly renowned Playwrights’ Lab moves along its well-established course. Over time, the survival of the Women’s Project, the largest and oldest theatre in this country supporting the work of women, will depend on our ability as past and present and future supporters to believe in a restored vision.

Over time, the survival of the Women’s Project, the largest and oldest theatre in this country supporting the work of women, will depend on our ability as past and present and future supporters to believe in a restored vision. Good luck, Lisa!

Good luck, Lisa!

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A long and fruitful career as a writer began in 1960 with the publication of Sallie Bingham's novel, After Such Knowledge. This was followed by 15 collections of short stories in addition to novels, memoirs and plays, as well as the 2020 biography The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke.

Her latest book, Taken by the Shawnee, is a work of historical fiction published by Turtle Point Press in June of 2024. Her previous memoir, Little Brother, was published by Sarabande Books in 2022. Her short story, "What I Learned From Fat Annie" won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize in 2023 and the story "How Daddy Lost His Ear," from her forthcoming short story collection How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories (September 23, 2025), received second prize in the 2023 Sean O’Faolain Short Story Competition.

She is an active and involved feminist, working for women’s empowerment, who founded the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which gives grants to Kentucky artists and writers who are feminists, The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, and the Women’s Project and Productions in New York City. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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