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SerahRose Roth

Way back in 2008, or maybe it was 2009, I went to the launch party for the Boston-based Awesome Foundation.  A bunch of people who wanted to give money to awesome causes got together and decided to jointly gift $1000 a month to something cool.  They prefer projects like marshmallow launchers and [...]

Where were you last Saturday?

GAN-e-meed joined Actor’s Shakespeare Project and many others to celebrate the bard’s birthday in Harvard Square last Saturday.

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Stay-tuned for some videos of the [...]

The Glass Proscenium Recap (5)

PART 5: NEXT STEPS

Follow-up meetings Salons – theme-centered, limited size Starting a play club – Similar to 50/50 in 2020, creating a group to go to plays by women Gabrielle Orcha is starting Incubator 145, a company devoted to new work across artistic disciplines Hosting non-theatre-related activity nights Gan-e-Meed networking nights in May and [...]

The Glass Proscenium Recap (4)

PART 4: BREAKOUT SESSIONS

At this point, we moved into breakout sessions on the most popular topics that came up over the course of the panel discussion and Q&A: Networking, Mentorship, and Age-Related Issues. I have a summary of the Mentorship discussion, and if the Gan-e-Meed scribes from the other groups would like to post [...]

The Glass Proscenium Recap (3)

PART 3: Q&A

SerahRose asks the directors a question about casting. She says that when she recently cast a production of Hamlet for a high school, she noticed a drastic difference between boys and girls auditioning. After finding herself thinking that the girls (who made up the bulk of the auditioners) were performing worse than [...]

The Glass Proscenium Recap (2)

PART 2: THE PANEL DISCUSSION CONTINUES

Jen is asking if the panelists are surprised by Boston’s data, and the fact that it seems to reflect that Boston is doing better than average with regards to gender parity.

Courtney asked how the Boston data broke down by budget. SerahRose was unable to verify budgets of fringe [...]

The Glass Proscenium Recap

Hi everyone! I’m Jess Ernst, your blogger for the second of Gan-e-Meed Theatre Project’s Career Labs. Now, I originally intended for this blogging of “Boston’s Glass Proscenium” to be live. However, due to the fickle nature of the Internet, my summary of the evening’s stimulating and inspiring discussion was unable to make it online in [...]

Glass Proscenium’s Un-Live Blogging

We got unplugged last night.

Lost our internet.

Sigh.

So although some of us were still tweeting (when we weren’t busy focusing on what was being said because, trust me, there were some thrilling life challenges, questions, and observations soaring around the room), we weren’t able to live blog.

No worries, Katie & Jess still [...]

Employment Parity Panel Discussion on Monday April 4

Panel begins at 6:30 at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Full bios of the panelists are available.

Discounted advance registration is available until 12:30pm on Monday.

Cash only at the door is $8.

If you can’t come, the event will be covered by live blogging and tweeting.  That side [...]

TCG initiates research on gender parity in plays

TCG (Theatre Communications Group) has initiated research about gender parity in theatre.  Namely why female roles are under-represented on the American Stage.

If you are a theatre artist go take their survey. (March 23 correction: they want playwrights to take the survey.  Makes sense.) Make sure your voice is heard.  The best research comes from [...]