30th Anniversary
The League will acknowledge those who have played a major role in its success and will launch the next 30 years of increasing visibility and promoting opportunity for women in theatre. Our 30th anniversary activities will include:
- A special edition of Women in Theatre Magazine;
- An Oral History Exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts;
- Celebrations featuring Legendary Women in Theatre;
- Co-Productions with theatre companies throughout the country and international community;
- An Educational Outreach Guide;
- Community Outreach.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Celebrating Our Legacy - Oral History Exhibition
On March 8, 2012 a two-month Oral History Exhibit, presented in association with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, will open to the public. It will feature over 100 women in a Photographic Gallery Exhibition of the distinguished theatre women whose Oral Histories and Women in Theatre television series interviews form a part of the Library’s Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) Archive. Audience access to the interviews housed in the Archive will be provided by means of reference numbers affixed to each photograph.
Edith Meiser Oral History Series
On Monday, November 7, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the League of Professional Theatre Women will tape an Oral History interview with a notable theatre woman (name to be announced). Future tapings will be announced in the Spring of 2012.
Women in Theatre Magazine
This greatly expanded 30th Anniversary issue of WOMEN IN THEATRE Magazine is a celebration of the League’s 30 years of advocacy for women in professional theatre. The Magazine takes a look at women’s role nationally in the artistic leadership of theatres across the country in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. Penned entirely by women writers, it contains profiles of women-led theatres large and small, ethnically diverse, mainstream and experimental, as well as some recent history of women producers and directors and a look at the future for women in all types of professional theatre.
International Award
The first Rosamond Gilder/Martha Coigney International Award will be presented on October 16, 2011 at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy to recognize an artist who, in her own right, has had a powerful impact on her community and the international community at large. There were 21 nominees from 10 countries. This year’s awardee is Rwandan artist, Odile Gakire Katese, a playwright, novelist, screenwriter, poet, drummer and actress.
30 Plays Celebrate 30 Years
We honor professional theatre women and thirty years of League history by presenting thirty theatrical events ranging from intimate readings to full productions, beginning in January and produced throughout 2012. Members will curate women-led events which will appear in New York City, as well as in national and international venues.
Photo: Julia Miles