On May 18, Kairos Italy Theater and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò held the online event KIT Intl playwrights series 2020 dedicated to Women in Comedy, a series of 10-minute comic plays from around the globe written by women celebrating Franca Valeri turning 100 this year.

The call received 300 submissions by women playwrights from several countries including Australia, New Zealand, the US, Italy, Greece, Brasil, France, South America, Canada. An international jury of theater makers selected 15 of them. The selected plays were supposed to be presented on April 6 at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò to an audience that would have voted the best 5 plays. The finalists were to be presented in a semi-staged version on Opening Night of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY on April 27.