The Guerrilla Girls On Tour bring the art of theatre
and activism to a diverse audience through participation
in a variety of outreach options. Each serves to
empower the community to form satellite GGOT groups
in their own backyards.
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HAVING A GREAT TOUR…WISH YOU WERE HERE:
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ACTIONS TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN THEATRE
1979-89 Women's Committee of Dramatists Guild is organized by Gretchen Cryer
1981 - League of Professional Women in Theater is founded by Julia Miles www.theatrewomen.org
1989 - Women's Committee of Dramatists Guild stops meeting.
1989- Coalition of Professional Women in Arts & Media is founded. www.nycwam.org
1997 – A group of women request to revive the Dramatists Guild Committee for Women. Board of DG and then executive Director Richard Garmise deny request.
1998 – The Guerrilla Girls begin addressing discrimination against women in theatre with “In this theatre…” sticker placed in toilet stalls of theatres in NYC that do not include any plays by women in their mainstage seasons. www.ggontour.com
1998 – Women in Theatre: Mapping the Sources of Power, On the 20th Anniversary of the Women's Project and Productions at The New School with support of Ford Foundation.
2001 – Guerrilla Girls split into three new groups. The theatre girls form Guerrilla Girls On Tour, with a mission to end sexism in theatre. They use the Tony Awards to stage a protest shedding light on sexism in theatre. Mother Jones Magazine covers the protest. http://motherjones.com/politics/2000/09/broadways-masked-avengers
2002 - Release of a study, "Report on the Status of Women: A Limited Engagement?" prepared for the New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Program by Susan Jonas and Suzanne Bennett with stats gathered by Guerrilla Girls On Tour! http://www.womenarts.org/advocacy/WomenCountNYSCAReport.htm
2003-Women Count, a group of concerned dramatists come together and request the Dramatists Guild to revive the Committee for Women. Request is again denied.
2005 – The League of Professional Theatre Women include Guerrilla Girls On Tour in their CUNY-TV show “Dialogues with Notable Women In Theatre. The GGOT’s name the Roundabout Theatre and the most sexist theatre company in New York City with a continued record of producing no plays by women and not hiring any female directors. http://www.theatrewomen.org/node/17
- An event - "50/50 in 2020: Parity for Theatre Artists," is held by League, Women's Project, and New Perspectives Theatre resulting in a new group, 50/50 in 2020 being formed by Susan Jonas, Julie Crosby and Melody Brooks to take action on finding solutions re gender disparity in theatre. http://www.facebook.com/5050in2020
- League of Professional Theatre Women create a committee to track stats on women in theater.
– Four members of Dramatists Guild -- Cindy Cooper, Catherine Gropper, Andy Landis, Barbara Masry organize the Dramatists Guild Women’s Initiative.
2010 – TDF and the Wendy Wasserstein Prize committee announce that the $25,000 award for playwriting will not be awarded this year because, out of 19 finalists, they could find no script by a young female writer worthy of the prize. After mounting pressure from the theatre community the administrator of the prize announces that the selection process would be refined and done over in hopes of finding a winner.
WOMEN IN THEATRE FACTS
The Dramatists Guild – only national organization for playwrights.
* 18 of 60 Council members are women
* 224 of 820 Active members are women
* 2069 of 4933 Associate members are women
STATS
* 1969-1975: 7 % of playwrights and directors hired by regional and
Off-Broadway theatres from 1969-7575 are women. Source: NYSCA Report,*
citing "Action for Women in Theatre."
* 1994-95: playwright representation at 17% and directors at 19% for
Off Broadway and regional theatres. Source: NYSCA Report.*
* 1998 – 30% playwrights and 40% directors in off-off Broadway
theaters with budgets under $500,000. Source: NYSCA Report*
· 1999 women write 8% of all plays and only 1% of musicals
on Broadway. NYSCA Report via Guerrilla Girls On Tour’s “There’s a Tragedy on Broadway and it isn’t Electra” poster.*
· 2001-02: 17% women playwrights, 16% women directors at
1,900 Theatre Communications Group members. Women of color write 2.5% of plays produced and direct 1%. Source: NYSCA Report,* citing American Theatre magazine.
· 2009: Women account for approximately 17% of new plays
produced, but are 31% of the top ten most produced plays on the TCG list
of American Theater. Source: Wilner, Jordan**
· 1999-2009: Women write 11% of Broadway shows; these shows
earned 18% higher income and sold 16% more tickets. Source:Wilner,
Jordan**, citing study by Emily Glassberg Sands
· 2009: Women buy 70% of theater tickets and are 60% of
audience. Source: Norman***; Wilner, Jordan**
*NYSCA Study refers to: New York State Council on the Arts Theatre
Program Report, "The Status of Women: A Limited Engagement?" By
Susan Jonas & Suzanne Bennett, released Jan 2002. executive summary: www.womenarts.org/advocacy/WomenCountNYSCAReport.htm
**Wilner, Jordan refers to: "Discrimination and The Female
Playwright," by Sheri Wilner and Julia Jordan, The Dramatist,
Sept-Oct 2009.
***Norman, Marsha refers to "Not There Yet: what will it take to
achieve equality for women in the theatre?" by Marsha Norman,
American Theater Magazine (Nov. 2009).
Also see Jordan, "Women Playwrights: Equality in Production, The
Dramatist, Jan/Feb 2009
