I wish I had been at the findings presentation of Emily Glassberg Sands this week. She conducted three separate studies and apparently the examination was championed by the playwright Julia Jordan, who has been speaking out about the huge disparity between the number of shows by men that are produced and the number by women. Here is the link to the full article in the New York Times today and there you can also download a copy of the researcher’s full paper. Once I’m unburied from boxes, I will bury myself in it.
This is just a teaser – go read the whole thing!
When more than 160 playwrights and producers, most of them female, filed into a Midtown Manhattan theater Monday night, they expected to hear some concrete evidence that women who are authors have a tougher time getting their work staged than men.
And they did. But they also heard that women who are artistic directors and literary managers are the ones to blame.
That conclusion was just one surprising piece of a yearlong research project that both confirms and upends assumptions about bias in the playwriting business.
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