About Us

BoxFest Detroit has served and continues to function as a springboard for many women and their directing careers. Directors who have participated in past festivals have gone on to pursue graduate studies at highly competitive universities, become directors at professional theatres, and formed their own successful theatre and production companies. BoxFest Detroit’s importance within Michigan’s theatre community was validated when Between The Lines honored the festival with the Critic’s Choice Award at the 2008 Wilde Awards. Every year the winner of the audience vote competition is given the opportunity to direct a show with Planet Ant Theatre’s One Act Series. In 2017 BoxFest Detroit launched a mentorship program, a portion of the festival proceeds go to support at least one director’s participation in this program.

Be a Director

Gain community with other women directors, get the opportunity to fully stage original work, and access opportunities like mentorship and a late night slot Planet Ant Theatre!

Submit Work

Are you a playwright looking for full productions of your work? Directors at BoxFest Detroit choose work that speaks to them and fully stages them for an annual two weekend festival.

Audition for Us

We can’t do our work without actors! Come participate, meet great people, and help give life to this work!

Thank you very much for your support, for believing in me as a director and for continuing to facilitate BoxFest as an awesome opportunity for women directors. 

Mycah Artis

I love BoxFest so much because it provided me as a young black woman the platform and opportunity to let my voice be heard and share my gift with my community.

RoNeesha Jackson