The Turnaway Play

All proceeds from this live staged reading and post-reading panel discussion will benefit The Turnaway Project and Reproductive Equity Now!

Across the U.S., activists, students, community groups, and theater companies are hosting readings of The Turnaway Play. The play is inspired by the revelatory Turnaway Study, a 10-year scientific research project—led by MacArthur fellow Dr. Diana Greene Foster—that definitively answers the essential question, “What happens to a person who wants an abortion but cannot get one?” 

Written by Dr. Foster’s sister, playwright Lesley Lisa Greene and directed by Jessica Webb, Professor of Theater at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, The Turnaway Play features real-life stories of women who were denied abortions across the United States. Through humor, honesty, and compassion, this compelling play aims to reduce stigma by normalizing and humanizing abortion, and opening a dialogue that affects over half of the population. 

Presented by The Turnaway Project, with the support of Elizabeth Driehaus.