Whose Voices Reach the Stage?
Whose stories become part of our shared culture? It depends on who gets produced.
In 1998, three Dallas theatre artists tried to interest local companies in an award-winning play about the exclusion of women artists. They were repeatedly told it was not “their kind of play.”
They decided it was exactly their kind of play—and Echo Theatre was born.
As we launch our 29th season, we continue to produce, promote, and preserve plays by women and nonbinary writers. We give North Texas audiences the chance to encounter perspectives they may not find anywhere else—and create paid opportunities for the actors, directors, designers, technicians, and other artists who bring those stories to life.
This North Texas Giving Day, help us raise $8,000 to rewrite the story.
Your Gift Will:
• Pay North Texas theatre artists for their work
• Produce adventurous plays by women and nonbinary writers
• Develop new work through free staged readings and audience conversations
• Build partnerships that bring artists and audiences together across Dallas
• Preserve important plays by giving them the productions they deserve
Nearly 60% of Echo’s budget directly supports the people who make the work: local actors, directors, designers, technicians, producers, and other theatre professionals.
The World of Eva Luna
Echo’s 29th season enters the richly imagined world of internationally celebrated author Isabel Allende through two connected theatrical works. In November, Echo and Teatro Dallas will join forces for the regional premiere of Eva Luna, adapted from Allende’s novel by award-winning playwright Caridad Svich. Echo will also present the world premiere of The Stories of Eva Luna, Stephanie Oustalet’s adaptation of Allende’s haunting short stories.
Free Programs
Since 2001, Echo Reads has introduced Dallas audiences to the work of more than 150 playwrights through free professional staged readings and lively post-performance conversations. The series gives artists room to explore compelling scripts and gives audiences a meaningful voice in the conversation.
Echo also creates connections through artistic partnerships, community events, its free-ticket program, and ECHO OFFSTAGE, our podcast featuring intimate conversations with influential women in theatre.
Every gift—whatever its size—helps an artist get paid, a play take its next step, and an audience hear a perspective too often left out of the public realm.
Give to Echo Theatre today.
Echo Theatre champions the diverse voices of women and nonbinary playwrights.
We expand the canon of global theatre by producing, promoting, developing, and preserving plays from female and nonbinary perspectives for all audiences.
We need to hear new ideas.
We need to see people we don't already understand.
We need encounters with perspectives that feel alien to us.
Theater gives us a rare chance to step inside someone else’s experience, question our assumptions, and see more clearly the forces that shape how we understand each other.
Who gets heard, who gets hired, and who gets welcomed into the room.
Echo Theatre centers gender equity while recognizing that race, ethnicity, disability, age, economic circumstance, sexual orientation, and gender identity also shape access and opportunity.
We measure our work by who can participate fully—and by our willingness to keep listening, learning, and changing.
View our current participation opportunities.
City-Wide General Auditions
Ongoing
Dallas, TX
Eva Luna, by Caridad Svich, from Isabel Allende's novel
November 7, 2026 - November 22, 2026
Dallas, TX
Organization name
Echo Theatre
other names
Echo Theatre Dallas
Tax id (EIN)
75-2751998
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
$100,000 - $249,999
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American, Other
BIPOC Leadership
Both the Executive Director/CEO and Board Chair
Address
PO Box 570422