Bay Area Actor

Recent teaching work has gotten me thinking about how I talk about and model gender parity while wearing my teaching artist hat. This is s...

The project counts 9 shows for the month of June, now up to a total of 281 shows since June 2011 and is now 2 years old!  For more info on t...

A huge thank you to DivaFest and everyone who came out for last weekend's Symposium event!  Though nothing specific is on the books, I...

Let's say you live in San Francisco.  And let's say you have a female friend who is a great chef.  We'll call her Josie.  She ha...

Before you read this month's list - a few places to get even more Counting Actors. 1) the May/June issue of Theatre Bay Area magazine ...

This is a great week for reading about gender parity in the blogosphere. Check the Works by Women SF TACTICS interview series here .  I...

Art and struggle/art and oppression feature prominently in both of these things, and have given me a lot to think about and reflect on in th...

Hey Bay Area Theater Artists - I hope you'll join me in this simple letter writing campaign asking Theatre Bay Area to prioritize gender...

International: The Guardian UK has been running a thoughtful, articulate and passionate series of articles this week on representation of...

I'm so thrilled to be a part of this new project that has both an online presence and a real world monthly meetup event!! Take a look ...

Theatre Bay Area is holding a Diversity Symposium on Monday December 3rd from 2-6 at Berkeley's Aurora Theater. I will be on a panel ...

I'm part of a new group that's forming here in SF.  Taking a page from a NY based group, Works by Women , we're starting regular...

Last Thurs Howlround had a twitter convo on gender parity and diversity.  You can read the collection of tweets here . I highly encourage ...

An amazing event taking place in NYC next week Monday! WE ARE THEATRE is described as a speakout about sexism in global theater.  Monologu...

I love this HowlRound post not just because it gives me a newer, better piece of vocabulary: open-gender casting - the idea that a characte...

I just keep giving you homework , don't I. Two things to read: 1) over at the NY Times, there's a feature in their opinion sectio...

Over on the 2amtheatre blog, Travis Bedard has thrown out a challenge - what season would you program? I've weighed in in the comments...

Must Read #1: Stealing the Herd by playwright Carolyn Gage over on Howlround is about 'likeability' of protagonists in Broadway mus...

This project began in June 2011. To date, we've counted 152 Bay Area shows.  To learn more about the project, including a link to a list...

Quick! Someone buy me this book! An essay in the Guardian UK by Janet Suzman shows me that this 1960's LAMDA grad w/RSC & film ...