In 1999, Sasha Eden co-founded Women's Expressive Theater in New York to promote better roles for women. After years of auditioning for parts she found demeaning, Eden believed that if more plays by female playwrights were produced, female actors would reap the benefits. "I found that most women were being pretzeled into a type," Eden said, "whether it was the bitchy one, the ethnic one, the not-pretty-but-funny one. But if you have a balance of male perspective and female perspective, you have a human perspective, and it is going to affect women's employment across the board."A decade later, however, statistics seem to show that female playwrights lag far behind their male counterparts when it comes to having their work produced. According to playwright Julia Jordan (Boy, Walk Two Moons, the book for Sarah, Plain and Tall), only 17 percent of the plays produced at nonprofit subscription theatres in New York, New Jersey,...
- 1/6/2009
- backstage.com
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