StageSource co-sponsors The Power To Ask: A Workshop on Negotiation

GAN-e-meed Theatre Project is proud to announce a partnership with StageSource to co-sponsor The Power to Ask, a workshop for female Theatre Artists, featuring prominent author Sara Laschever who co-wrote Ask For It! How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want.

"StageSource is pleased to support GAN-e-meed Theatre Project in this endeavor. Their mission to advance the role of women in theatre is so very vital to the New England Theatre Community, and professional development workshops are at the core of what we do StageSource. We look forward to partnering with them on more Career Labs in the future" says Dawn Simmons, Director of Programs for StageSource. StageSource's mission is to unite theatre artists, theatre companies, and related organizations in vision and goals that inspire and empower our community to realize its greatest artistic potential.

"The community is increasingly aware of the "Glass Proscenium" (the gender gap in theatre) and StageSource is stepping up to help support women in theatre" says Jen Alison Lewis, Director of the Career Labs. "We are incredibly pleased to have the support of such respected local institutions as our co-sponsor StageSource and host Boston Center for the Arts."

This workshop will look at "best practice" negotiation principles within issues that impact women theatre artists and explore some of the causes of women's learned propensity to avoid negotiating. Informal networking begins at 6pm; attendees should bring business/show cards and a brown bag dinner. At 6:30pm, we will begin in earnest with an hour-long presentation by Laschever, who will then lead attendees through a workshop designed to immediately enhance their negotiation skills. Attendees will walk away with practiced techniques at their fingertips to continue their own development processes, and get out there and Ask for It!

The Power to Ask opens GAN-e-meed's Career Labs, an essential new program developed to address the specific challenges of Women in Theatre through skills workshops, panelist discussions, and community building, hosted by the Boston Center for the Arts. On April 4, a round-table discussion will address "The Boston Glass Proscenium." Our mid-summer workshop "Perfecting Your Pitch" comes July 11. The 2011 series concludes on September 12 with a round-table discussion on "Balancing Act: The Work/Life continuum for Artists." "The Career Labs," Lewis continues "challenge artists to have honest discussions and generate immediate and long-terms solutions, empowering a corps of female theatre artists who are ready to take their careers in their own hands."

About Gan-E-Meed Theatre Project
GAN-e-meed Theatre Project advances the role of women in theatre. Their inaugural 2010 season "Gender In Leadership" launched in May with an acclaimed Hamlet, featuring an all-female cast and starring SerahRose Roth in the title role. It concluded December 18 with Silence by Moira Buffini which played at the Elizabeth Peabody House in Somerville and was hailed as "rich with imagination and talent" (EDGE Boston) and "an evening of gripping theater" (ArtsFuse.org.)
The One Page Play Experiment, on display on the walls of the theatre during Silence featured a staged reading of the 14 finalists and a performance by Guest Artist Whistler in the Dark. Based on audience votes, the five winners will be produced in full during GAN-e-meed's 2011 season.
GAN-e-meed's inaugural season also included collaborations with other arts organizations for shorter engagements. Lucy Dreaming by Stacey Lane and directed by SerahRose Roth, performed as part of FeverFest2010 produced by STAB (the Small Theatre Alliance of Boston). Ties That Bind: three short plays written, directed, and about women was presented by GAN-e-meed as part of Whistler in the Dark's Second Act Series at the Factory Theatre. Funds for Hamlet were partially raised by BOOBFest: Bringing On-Stage Opportunities to Babes, a wildly successful variety show celebration hosted by GAN-e-meed at Boston Playwrights' Theatre.
The 2011 season, "Generational Collision," will be announced in the coming months. GAN-e-meed Theatre Project is currently reviewing proposals by female directors, playwrights, actors, designers, and stage managers.

GAN-e-meed Theatre Project was founded in 2009 to advance the role of women in theatre. It promotes the study of and visibility of gender bias within the theatre community and with the goal to establishing gender equity in New England theatre. For additional information about Career Labs, the upcoming season, to join the mailing list, or to learn more about GAN-e-meed, visit www.ganemeed.org.

About the Boston Center for the Arts
The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts complex that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works; builds new audiences; and connects art to community. The BCA serves arts audiences through exhibitions, live performances and community events, and supports artists through affordable studio, rehearsal and performance space on our historic South End site. The BCA's two-acre campus is home to hundreds of working artists, as well as several nonprofit arts and educational groups that provide a wide spectrum of services. To learn more, please visit www.bcaonline.org.

About StageSource
Founded in 1985, StageSource is a non-profit theatre service organization led by staff in our Boston offices, a Board of Directors, member volunteers and advisory committees representing our members. StageSource reaches over 6,000 households and businesses including individual theatre artists (actors, directors, designers, playwrights, and other theatre professionals), 220 theatre, film, casting, audio, video, service and theatre support companies, and over 50,000 patrons directly and hundreds of thousands more through our member theatres. Our members are located throughout New England, New York and beyond.
StageSource provides leadership and services to advance the art of theatre in the Greater Boston region. Our mission is to unite theatre artists, theatre companies, and related organizations in vision and goals that inspire and empower our community to realize its greatest artistic potential.

StageSource is dedicated to:
Increasing cultural participation through advocacy, communication, and education.
Providing information, initiatives, and resources to established and emerging theatre artists and organizations in the areas of employment, professional development, and institutional growth.
Fostering access and non-discrimination in the belief that theatre should shape, as well as be shaped by, the diversity of the community it represents.

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