International: The Guardian UK has been running a thoughtful, articulate and passionate series of articles this week on representation of women on British stages. There are infographics, data analysis articles, a feature, an opinion piece, and a second infographic that focuses specifically on the gender breakdown in Shakespeare. It was interesting to me to see how similar the British data was to what I've been finding with the Counting Actors project: especially at the higher budget levels, the ratio of representation male to female is roughly 2:1.
Local: Theatre Bay Area's Chatterbox blog has new content relating to last week's Diversity Symposium. Staff member Dale Albright has a wrap-up post that includes suggestions for taking action. And several attendees share their reactions, thoughts and reflections in this blog post (and a few mentions of the Counting Actors project there as well!). Finally, today, there's a post from me on the TBA site as well, which should be cross-posted to the Works by Women SF site very soon as well.
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