Gender

The contributions to this series focus on solutions and ways forward as much as critiques of existing practice, creating a kind of toolkit for creatives and critics alike to approach the genuinely difficult questions raised by the issue of staging gendered violence ethically and responsibly.

This is a series of four reports written by Porsche McGovern over the course of five years, looking at who directs and designs set, costume, lighting, sound, and projections in US LORT theatres by gender.

This series chronicles the production process for Love Sonnets: Things Women Say, a compilation of monologues for women.

The project examines what happens when a woman resubmits scripts to previously rejected opportunities, this time using a man’s name.

This blog series analyzes the sanctified “Great Female Roles” written by men, and the patterns in which male playwrights craft female characters from myth, history, current events, or whole cloth.

Aphra Behn from Guerilla Girls On Tour reports on the 2015 Women Playwrights International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

MJ Kaufman begins a new blog series, exploring questions of gender and parity in the world of performance.

A series from trans theatre artists that highlight diverse stories of a trans community of practicing artists working to create visibility in the theatre and the world.

A discussion and response to the call for better gender parity in theatre.

An examination of theatremaking as a collaboration between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women.