When Marisela Treviño Orta invited me to co-moderate a Howlround Twitter discussion on gender parity advocacy best practices, I immediately agreed, and then realized I had to find out what theaters, artists, and advocates were doing about gender parity…
I’ve been an activist artist all my life, first in the visual arts and now as a writer and speaker. I often think of my task as speaking truth to power, which can translate into speaking for those who are not able or ready to speak up for themselves. I’m an advocate for inclusion…
When I got my Equity card in 2008, I noticed how much harder it suddenly was to get acting work. In 2010, two other AEA actors and I founded Symmetry. Our mission is simple: We strive to produce stories that have significant female characters…
am a playwright, director and educator in New York City. I run an after-school arts program in Harlem and Queens New York and give low income children access to visual arts, choral music and theater. As a writer and director…
I am a 1st generation Filipino American and openly gay actor, singer, and producer. My three-year old non-profit theater and film production company has been an advocate for gender parity in theater and film since its inception with our Asian American Women Writers Workshop…
I’ve been working in professional theater for over 20 years now – starting in Chicago in storefronts and freelancing with bigger places, then to Philly, Louisville, and now Oregon for institutional positions. Feminism has never been a bad word for me, and fighting for fairness is something I’ve always done. It has come into sharper focus for me in recent years.
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