Auditions for The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek scheduled for this week-end are now FULLY BOOKED.

If you were unable to get at time-slot but would still like to audition, please note walk-ins will be welcomed, time permitting.

Please bring your headshot/resume and prepare a 2 to 4 minute monologue.

Auditions will be held at Links Hall (Saturday and Sunday from 2-5PM)

It is an article that gets to the heart of what we, as part of 20% do, and why we do it.

Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald
Artistic Director

Not There Yet

What will it take to achieve equality for women in the theatre?

By Marsha Norman

Discussing the status of women in the theatre feels a little like debating global warming. I mean, why are we still having this discussion? According to a report issued seven years ago by the New York State Council on the Arts, 83 percent of produced plays are written by men—a statistic that, by all indications, remains unchanged. Nobody doubts that the North Pole is melting, either—we see it on the news. These are both looming disasters produced by lazy behavior that nobody bothered to stop. End of discussion. What we have to do in both cases is commit to change before it is too late.

But, you ask, why is it a disaster that women writers are wildly underrepresented on the American stage? Actually, it's awful all over the arts world for women. My painter pals tell me that at one big museum in New York City, the new acquisitions by men are on the walls, while the new work by women is all in crates in the basement. Only in the orchestra world are the gender numbers equal, and that's because they started holding blind auditions a few years ago.

The U.S. Department of Labor considers any profession with less than 25 percent female employment, like being a machinist or firefighter, to be "untraditional" for women. Using the 2008 numbers, that makes playwriting, directing, set design, lighting design, sound design, choreography, composing and lyric writing all untraditional occupations for women.