Reading Room

2015

Gender Parity Count Ticks Up Slightly, Suzy Evans, American Theatre, 07/20/15

How This Group of Playwrights is Fighting Sexism on Broadway, Marin Gazzaniga, Fortune, 06/26/2015

7 Steps for Achieving Gender Parity in The Theatre, – Martha Richards, American Theatre, 06/9/2015

The Language of “Gender Parity”: 19 Women Playwrights and Their Voices, Emma Weisberg, HowlRound, 3/15/2015

Sexuality Deferred: American Playwrights Retread the Same Story About Repressed Woman Breaking Free. It’s Time for Another Narrative. – Lily Janiak, SF Weekly, 01/28/2015

The Sexism of the Theater World: Anna Pulley, East Bay Express, 1/7/2015

2014

• Theatre’s Gender Inequality is Shocking- but Change Is In The Air – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 09/22/2014
• Facing Facts on Tracking Diversity and Parity – Gwydion Suilebhan, HowlRound, 06/2014
• Gender Roles: The Direction, Development and Drama of Women in Live Theater – Todd Chance, MLive, 05/24/2014
• Grab a Dream and Sing Out – Patrick Healy, New York Times, 05/07/2014
• The Art of Never Giving Up – Jennifer Lane, HowlRound, 03/30/2014
• The Perils of Directing While Female – Holly L. Derr, HowlRound, 03/14/2014
• Defining Gender Parity – Gwydion Suilebhan, Personal Blog, 03/03/2014

2013

• 10 Films that passed the Bechdel Test in 2013 – Olivia Armstrong, Tribeca, 12/20/2013
• Berkeley stage company strives for gender equality – Lou Fancher, Inside Bay Area, 11/26/2013
• How Can We Start the Struggle for Gender Equity? – Philip N. Cohen, Opinionator, NYTimes, 11/23/2013
• Director Lucy Kerbel discusses women on stage – Rosamund Urwin, London Evening Standard, 11/6/2013
• Once More Into the Breeches – Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10/3/2013
  
• Equity Urges Action Over Female Stereotypes – Mathew Hemley, The Stage News, 9/19/2013
• Theatre Communications Group Gender Equality Forum – Theatre Communications Group
• Wobbling on the Political Line (in six-inch heels) Creating Feminist Theater with Girls – Dana Edell
• On Gender Parity – Mike Lew, 6/10/2013, Playwright’s Blog
• Theatre Women March on Broadway – no byline, Broadway World, 5/23/13
• Gender Disparity, Self-Reporting, and Theatre Rhino’s A Lady and A Woman – Lily Janiak, 5/7/2013
•  Weekly Howl on Thursday, May 2: “Gender Parity Advocacy: Best Practices & Concrete Ideas”—a #newplay chat
• A Lot to Put on a Girl: Playmaking in Pseudo-Post-Feminist America, by Rachel Grossman, 4/26/2013
• Gender Parity – Heather Kitchen, 4/25/2013
• We Are Not a Mirror: Theater Must Lead with Women’s Stories – Lauren Gunderson, 4/24/2013
• Too Often I am Force To Choose: A Conversation with Playwright Lydia Diamond – Lauren Gunderson, 4/23/2013
• Push for Parity – Julia Jordan, 4/22/2013
• Weekly Howl on Thursday, April 25: Gender Parity—a Twitter chat using hashtag #newplay
• Interview with Carey Perloff – Brad Erickson, 4/1/2013
• Getting Even: In Search of Gender Parity – Valerie Weak, 5/6/2013, Theatre Bay Area Magazine
• Gender Role: Local Theater Confronts the Lack of Women Behind the Scenes – by Lily Janiak, SF Weekly, 4/10/13
• Emily Mann to Sandi Klein: Women, Theater – Not There Yet – Angela Bonavoglia, 4/6/2013, Huffington Post
• Staging A Sisterhood – Patrick Healy, NYT, 1/31/2013
• Meet the Directors – Eric Grode, NYT, 1/31/2013
• Women Playwrights Applaud Theatres – Monica Bauer, 1/26/2013, Huffington Post

2012

• Women in Theatre: the Key Statistics – Elizabeth Freeston, Chloe Glover, Ami Sedghi, Chris Fenn, The Guardian, 12/11/12
• Women in Theatre: why do so few make it to the top? – Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12/10/12
• Women Missing Out at Top Theatres – Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12/10/12
• Theresa Rebeck’s Laura Pels Keynote Address – Delivered 3/15/2012 to Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York
• How to Build Gender Parity Initiatives and Influence Theater – Laura A. Shamas, October 2012, HowlRound blog
• We Are Theater (video) – NYC event-promoted gender parity in theater hosted by the Guerrilla Girls on Tour, 9/24/2012
• ‘In which my tolerance for sexism in theater reaches a breaking point’ – Songs for the Struggling Artist Blog, 9/12/2012
• In Defense of Supporting Work by Women: Thoughts from a Loudmouthed Feminist Theater Girl – Meghan Arnette, 5/11/2012, HowlRound blog
• In praise of theater by, for and about women – Kelly Kleiman, May 2012, Onstage/Backstage – covering Chicago’s Theater Scene
• Women Aren’t Minorities!!! – Lauren Gunderson, May 2012, Theatre Bay Area Chatterbox blog (San Francisco/Bay Area)
• Theater Audiences Are Mostly Female: Why Not the Roles? – Lauren Gunderson, 4/5/2012, Huffington Post

ARCHIVES

• Ten Famous Films That Surprisingly Fail the Bechdel Test – Ashe Cantrell, 9/22/2011, www.filmschoolrejects.com
• Gender Parity in My Work– Gwydion Suilebhan, 05/02/2011, Gwydion Suilebhan blog
• Discrimination and the Female Playwright – Sheri Wilner, Spring 2010, Grantmakers in the Arts Journal, Vol 21, No 1
• Female Directors Start to Break Through in Theater, but a Long Road Lies Ahead – Peter Marks, 5/13/2010, Washington Post
• Female playwrights still face an uphill battle – Robert Hurwitt, 12/13/2009, San Francisco Chronicle
• Not There Yet – What will it take to achieve equality for women in theater? – Marsha Norman, November 2009, American Theater
• Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater – Patricia Cohen, 6/23/2009, New York Times
• Charging Bias by Theaters – Patricia Cohen, New York Tims, 10/24/2008
• Women in Theater on CUNY TV (video) – 51 interviews with women theater artists conducted by Linda Winer (theater critic for Newsday), 2007
• Women’s Voices Missing From the Theater – Does Anyone Care? – No byline, 2/7/2007, www.womensmediacenter.com
• Why Female Directors Are Broadway’s Smallest – No byline, 12/11/2005, New York Times