League Of Professional Theatre Women Announces 2018-19 Season

The League of Professional Theatre Women announces their 36th season of programming, events, and advocacy initiatives dedicated to providing visibility and opportunities for women working in theatre. The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) will officially launch their 2018-19 season with a special event on Tuesday, September 11at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Theatre II (199 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007). Reservations are required. Current members and women interested in future membership are invited to attend and help continue the vital conversation around gender parity in theatre, learn about LPTW advocacy opportunities for our theatrical community, and connect with one another to create a season of joyful engagement.

In October the League of Professional Theatre Women will present the first of three Oral History Project events, a partnership with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts which chronicles and documents the contributions of significant theatre women in all fields through a series of intimate interviews in front of a live audience at Lincoln Center. Later this season LPTW will host their annual Theatre Women Awards, the only awards dedicated to honoring the theatrical work of women and their contributions to the field, across all disciplines. LPTW's season concludes in June with the annual Women Stage the World & Women Count March in Times Square, a march to advocate for equal representation for women in theatre.

This season LPTW will also continue their ongoing social media and direct outreach campaign, #OneMoreConversation, an advocacy action towards gender parity which asks theatre decision makers (artistic directors, producers, directors, playwrights, literary directors, boards, general managers, designers, etc.) to have one more conversation with a female candidate before making a final hiring decision. To date, LPTW has connected with nearly 400 theatre organizations nationwide encouraging #OneMoreConversation.

Additional programming will include Julia's Reading Room (a member project reading series), Theatre Connections (a unique networking opportunity which connects LPTW members with the active leadership of producing organizations who provide insight on how to work with their organization), On Her Shoulders (a reading series which promotes women writers neglected by the classic cannon), The Heritage Committee, (reclaiming the stories and contributions of women to the theatre that have largely been erased from the historical record that is taught and known), and Women in Theatre Online (a collaboration with HowlRound which covers the ways in which women enrich and think critically about theatre).

THE LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN (a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization) has been championing women and leading the gender parity conversation in the professional theatre for over 35 years. Since its founding, the LPTW's membership has grown to 500+ theatre artists and practitioners of all backgrounds, across multiple disciplines, working in the commercial and non-profit sectors. To increase visibility of and opportunities for women in the field, the LPTW spearheads public programming, advocacy initiatives, events, media, and publications that raise awareness of the importance of nurturing women's voices, celebrate industry luminaries, preserve the legacy of historic visionaries, and shine a spotlight on the imperative of striving for gender parity and fostering a diversity of expression, both in the theatre world and the world at large. To find out more about how you can support its endeavors, please visit www.theatrewomen.org.