SheDFW Arts Announces Three New Full-Length Plays and Musicals Selected for the 2026 SheDFW Summer Theater Festival
DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX - SheNYC Arts, the country's premier program for showcasing up-and-coming theater writers and composers, has announced their selected shows for the 2026 SheDFW Summer Theater Festival. The Festival, which annually features the works of Texas-based and national women, trans, & non-binary playwrights and composers, will run from September 8-13, 2026 at Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth, TX.
The 2026 SheDFW Summer Theater Festival will present the following three new full-length works:
BATTLE CROWN: The Legend of Princess Pink
A New Musical with Book, Music, and Lyrics by Amanda Dills
When three teenage gamers discover a mysterious 1980s console, they unlock an unfinished 8-bit adventure where the Princess is finally the playable character. Inside the game, castles glitch, wizards rap, and Ribits..well… “ribit.” Battle Crown: The Legend of Princess Pink blends retro video game nostalgia, a synth-pop score, and a coming-of-age story about friendship, failure, and unfinished quests. In this feminist musical adventure, the biggest power-up just might be the courage to act before you know you can win.
Hamill, TX.
By Analisa Salinas
Freshly graduated from a big university, Aurora returns to her small hometown for the funeral of two family friends. While navigating her next chapter and the new grief hanging over her family, she starts to find solace where she shouldn’t. As her visit turns into a quickly spiraling cycle of tension and recklessness, it gets harder and harder for her to admit why she really came back home.
The Other Side of the Shore
By Tilda Grace
What happens when three children become the byproduct of a love that began as free-spirited infatuation but transformed into possessive imprisonment? Following the presumed death of their mother, Orlaith is left to care for her younger twin siblings: Fiadh, a sickly girl with a vivid imagination, and Ruairi, a hot-headed boy often at odds with their brash and abusive father, Cian. The Other Side of the Shore is a reimagining of a classic Celtic folktale where in the face of grief, expectation, and raging ocean storms, the siblings must decipher the mysterious origins of their family and discover their own roots along the way.
"These three shows are a reminder of why we do this work. A genre-bending musical that rewrites gaming history, an intimate Texas drama about grief and grace, and a mythological Irish folk tale rooted in the oldest kind of longing - they couldn't be more different from one another, and yet they all ask the same essential question: what do we do with the things we've lost, and who do we become on the other side of that?” says Sarah Powell, Executive Producer of the SheDFW Summer Theater Festival. “SheDFW has always been about creating a home in North Texas for stories that deserve to be told at the highest level, and we are so proud to bring this lineup to audiences at Stage West.”
This year, MusicalWriters.com returns to SheDFW to sponsor the Festival’s musical production of Battle Crown, which will be directed and co-produced by Rebecca Lowrey of MusicalWriters.com.
Tickets for the 2026 SheDFW Summer Theater Festival will go on sale July 10 at SheNYCArts.org/she-dfw.
About SheNYC Arts
SheNYC Arts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting for gender equity in the entertainment industry. Through its flagship Summer Theater Festivals - SheNYC, SheLA, SheATL, and SheDFW - SheNYC Arts presents full-length plays and musicals by women, trans, and non-binary writers, offering them a fully produced platform to develop and showcase their work. Since its founding, SheNYC Arts has supported over 1,500 artists and reached more than 25,000 audience members across New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Dallas.
For more information, visit SheNYCArts.org or follow @she.dfw.arts on Instagram.
Pictured: OMEN, A NEW MUSICAL and FIRST at the 2025 SheDFW Theater Festival. Photo credit: SheDFW Arts.
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