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.
Parity is also proud to include its own co-production this month with Yonder Window Theatre Company and Civil Disobedience - Romy Nordlinger's Places. Places will play 6 performances in July at 59E59's East to Edinburgh Festival before traveling to Edinburgh, Scotland for the 2017 Fringe Festival where it will have 25 performances over the month of August.
To submit your production, go to www.parityproductions.org/submit-your-qualifying-production.html.
To purchase tickets to Qualifying Productions, go to www.parityproductions.org/qualifying-productions.html or the individual show website.
July's Qualifying Productions are:
15 Villainous Fools
07/07/17 - 08/19/17
The PIT Loft
https://www.15villainousfools.com
Expecting Isabel
06/10/17 - 07/08/17
The Barrow Group
TBG Theatre
https://www.barrowgroup.org/expecting-isabel
Indecent
04/04/17 - 08/06/17 (extended)
Vineyard Theatre
Cort Theatre
Julius Caesar
06/21/17 - 07/08/17
Access Theater
https://www.caesarbeware.com/tickets
Places
07/21/17 - 07/30/17
59E59 Theaters, Theater C
08/03/14 - 08/27/17
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
New Town Theatre (Venue 7)
https://www.placestheplay.com/the-show/
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
http://www.puffstheplay.com/#tickets
A Raisin in the Sun
06/17/17 - 10/14/17
Harlem Repertory Theatre
Tato Laviera Theatre
http://www.harlemrepertorytheatre.com/current_season.html
RED
07/06/16 - 07/16/17
First Person Xperience
http://www.firstpersonxperience.com/red
Singing Beach
07/22/17 - 08/12/17
HERE
Theatre 167
http://here.org/shows/detail/1920/
The Suitcase Under the Bed
07/21/17 - 09/26/17
MINT Theater Company
The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
http://minttheater.org/production/the-suitcase-under-the-bed/
Then She Fell
12/2016 - 12/31/17 (extended again)
Third Rail Projects
The Kingsland Ward at St. Johns
Waitress
04/24/16 - TBA
Brooks Atkinson Theatre
http://waitressthemusical.com/index.php
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.
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