NEW YORK, NY (September 1, 2017) Theatre production company Parity Productions has released its monthly list of Qualifying Productions for July – their popular directory of New York City shows in which the individual creative teams include 50% women and transgender artists (directors, designers, and playwrights).
Parity Productions is New York’s theatre company that is dedicated to developing and producing new work and committed to hiring a minimum of 50% women and transgender playwrights, directors, and designers on each show they produce. In addition, part of their mission is to provide substantial promotional support to other shows that meet the 50% hiring standard in the form of social media, email blasts, PR support, and placement in their Qualifying Productions Directory. “We've become a unique and unprecedented resource for free promotional support for shows that meet the 50% hiring standard in the New York theatre community and we are so very glad to help spread the word at this time of diminishing theatre coverage," says Artistic Director and Founder Ludovica Villar-Hauser.
September’s Qualifying Productions are:
The Baroness
09/02/17 – 09/24/17
Scandinavian American Theater Company
The Clubman Theatre at Theatre Row
A Clockwork Orange
09/02/17 — 01/06/17
New World Stages, Stage 4
Cradle Two Grave
08/25/17 — 09/03/17
Corkscrew Theater Festival
The Paradise Factory
Ex Habitus
08/23/17 — 09/03/17
Corkscrew Theater Festival
The Paradise Factory
Identity Crisis
09/06/17 — 09/15/17
Fringe Encore Series
Soho Playhouse, Huron Club
Mary Jane
09/06/17 — 10/15/17
Yale Repertory Theatre
New York Theatre Workshop
Power Over POTUS
07/21/17 — 10/17/17
See You Next Tuesday Productions
The Laurie Beeckman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe
Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic
10/13/16 – 07/02/17 (extended)
The Elektra Theatre
07/08/17 – 01/14/18 (extended & moved)
New World Stages
A Raisin in the Sun
06/17/17 – 10/14/17
Harlem Repertory Theatre
Tato Laviera Theatre
The Rape of the Sabine Women
08/25/17 – 09/23/17
The Playwrights Realm
The Duke
RED
07/06/16 – 10/29/17
First Person Xperience
A Ribbon About a Bomb
08/18/17 — 10/01/17
Exquisite Corpse Company
Governors Island Colonels Row House 407B
Romance of the Western Chamber
09/16/17 — 10/01/17
Wildly Productive Productions and Bob Ost
Tada! Theatre
Stairway to Stardom
09/12/17 — 09/23/17
cake face
HERE Arts Center
The Suitcase Under the Bed
07/21/17 – 09/26/17
MINT Theater Company
The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
Then She Fell
12/2016 – 12/31/17 (extended again)
Third Rail Projects
The Kingsland Ward at St. Johns
Too Heavy for Your Pocket
09/15/17 — 11/19/17
Roundabout Theatre Company
The Black Box Theatre
The Voire Dire Project
09/07/17 — 09/16/17
Cosmic Orchid
Theater for the New City
Waitress
04/24/16 – TBA
Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Where Angels Fear to Tread
09/07/17 — 10/01/17
THML Theater Company
The Players Theater
Whiskey Pants: The Mayor of Williamsburg
09/28/17 - 10/28/17
Mind The Art Entertainment
HERE Arts Center
To be listed in the Parity Productions Qualifying Productions Directory, each show must meet three criteria: 50% of the playwrights, directors, and designers working on the production must be women or transgender artists; shows must be full productions (design elements included) that run for at least two calendar weeks in a New York City venue; and there must be a minimum of six performances over the course of the two week period.
Parity’s Qualifying Productions Program is one of their slate of advocacy programs that includes The Annual Parity Commission for Women and Transgender Playwrights, The Women and Transgender Artists Database and The Parity Store – a digital storefront that offers works of art, exclusive products, and professional services – many at a discount – to the industry and audiences. One out of every $10 the company makes from The Parity Store funds The Annual Parity Commission for Women and Transgender Playwrights.
