Stats for New York this season are absurd:
Plays by Living American Playwrights for 2008-09 Season:
Roundabout: 3 white men, 1 white woman
Lincoln Center Theater: 4 white men
MTC: 5 White men, 1 black woman
Public Theater: 6 white men, 1 black woman
Second Stage: 3 white men, 1 white woman
Playwrights Horizons 4 white men, 2 women (1 black, 1 white)
Vineyard: 1 white man, 1 black man
NYTW: 1 white man, 1 white woman
Primary Stages: 3 white men, 1 white woman
Soho: 1 white man
Rattlestick: 2 white men, 1 white woman
New Group: 2 white men
Atlantic 5 white men
Total: 40 white men, 10 the rest of the world
Zero plays by Asian, Latino, Middle-Eastern playwrights. No plays with lesbian content.
Population of New York City:
Non-Latino Whites: 35%
Latinos: 27%
Blacks: 26.6 %
Asians 9.8 %
Other 1 %
White Males: 14% of New York City, 80% of 2008/09 Theater Season
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I'm a theatre producer and damn..you caught us. We routinely get fantastic scripts from Chinese-Iranian black lesbians that we know will be blockbusters but instead produce things by white men just to spite the "diversity" crowd. And, as well all know, every theatre, fashion magazine, movie production, etc., must exactly represent the population. Gee, now that I think of it, I haven't seen too many white guys on the cover of Ebony. Wonder why...hmmmm.
Well hello, Mr. Snark!
I pulled this whole blog entry from The New York Times, and I was never intending to state a reason for the lack of females in the playwriting biz, only to bring the situation to light. Perhaps there simply aren't as many female playwrights as there are male- but then, shouldn't we try to figure out why? I'd like us to have a theatre history that includes all types of playwrights and all types of subjects. To have only the white male perspective limits us greatly.
Also, your "Ebony" analogy doesn't work, unless you are suggesting that as Ebony is made for black people, theatre is made for men.
I'm a script reader for an Off-Broadway house, and in one of my posts, I included the stats of the plays that I read. There are not nearly as many female submissions. But I do not feel that the women are any worse at writing than the men. Indeed, they are all equally terrible, most of the time.
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