NEW YORK, NY (April 6, 2020) Theatre production company Parity Productions is aiming to update New Yorkers with what productions have been postponed and not canceled, while honoring those that were forced to close due to COVID-19 in its monthly list of Qualifying Productions —their popular directory of New York City shows in which the individual creative teams have 50% of the positions filled with women and/or trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) artists (directors, designers, and playwrights).

A key part of Parity’s mission is to give extensive and free promotional support, through their Qualifying Productions program, to other theatre companies that fill 50% of the creative roles on their productions with women and/or trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) artists. They provide extensive free promotion in the form of social media, email blasts, PR support, and placement in their online directory of Qualifying Productions.

“Parity is going to do what we can to ensure audiences are up-to-date on Qualifying Productions working to resume their runs as soon as it is safe to do so, ” says Parity’s Founder and Artistic Director, Ludovica Villar-Hauser. “In a time where art is more important than ever, these productions are still extremely important to us at Parity Productions. We are not alone in this time of isolation; we seek to continue promoting the important work these companies and teams did while open and to aid the shows that are able to open later.”

Parity Productions is also is working to double the profiles in their Women and TGNC Artists Database to promote artists’ visibility to producers, artistic directors, and future collaborators looking to hire both for remote work now, and post-COVID-19.

Per Villar-Hauser: “as a special effort during this COVID-19 crisis, we are aiming to help NYC artists leverage this forced downtime to set themselves up for success when theaters reopen. We hope artists who are not currently part of the rapidly expanding TGNC Artists Database claim their own free profile and let colleagues know about this opportunity.”

To visit the websites of postponed and honored productions and learn more about how you can help, go to http://www.parityproductions.org/qualifyingproductions.html or directly to the Qualifying Productions’ own website, linked below.

Postponed due to COVID-19

The Bedwetter
Atlantic Theater Company

Birthday Candles
Roundabout Theatre Company

Canary Snuff Film
Stripped Scripts

Hadestown
Walter Kerr Theater

Help
The Shed

The Karamazovs
Other Shore at the New Ohio Theatre

The Little Mermaid the Musical
Literally Live! Theatre

Lunch Bunch
The Play Company & Clubbed Thumb

SIX THE MUSICAL
Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Sistas the Musical
St. Luke’s Theater

Spoiled
The Hess Collective

Then She Fell
Third Rail Projects

Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec
Bated Breath Theatre Company

THE VAGRANT TRILOGY
The Public Theater

The Wake of Dorcas Kelly
spit&vigor

What to Send Up When It Goes Down
Playwrights Horizons

Wolf Play
SoHo Rep

Closed early due to COVID-19

72 Miles To Go
Roundabout Theatre Company

A Barn Play
UP Theater Company

ALL THE NATALIE PORTMANS
MCC Theater

Anatomy of Suicide
Atlantic Theater Company

Blues for an Alabama Sky
Keen Company

Boys Will Be Boys
The Pond Theatre Company

Bug Play
The New Collectives

Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical
Love Arm’d Productions

Equally Divine: The Real Story of the Mona Lisa
Theatre 167

First by Faith: the Life of Mary McLeod Bethune
RPR Productions

La Paloma Prisoner
La Lucha Arts

The Magazine
Carnival Girls Productions

Mirrors
Parity Productions

Oratorio for Living Things
Ars Nova

The Pipeline Festival
WP Theater

They Came to the Castle
Theater for the New City

Women on Fire: Stories from the Frontlines
Royal Family Productions

Parity Productions is New York’s theatre company that is dedicated to developing and producing new work and committed to filling a minimum of 50% of the creative roles on their productions with women and/or trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) artists (playwrights, directors, and designers). In addition, part of their mission is to provide substantial promotional support to any full productions industry-wide that meet the 50% hiring standard in the form of social media, email blasts, PR support, and placement in their Qualifying Productions Directory.
Parity’s Qualifying Productions Program is part of their slate of advocacy programs that includes The Annual Parity Commission, The Women and TGNC Artists Database, and The Parity Store.

Through the generosity of The Sylvia Sleigh Endowment to Parity Productions, a select number of paintings by the renowned Welsh artist Sylvia Sleigh are now available for sale by Parity. The Parity Store funds Parity’s programming — including its Annual Parity Commission.