Parity Productions Aims to Honor Shows That Are Closed Due to the Health Crisis in Monthly List of Qualifying Productions
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Apr. 06, 2020
Parity Productions is aiming to update New Yorkers with what productions have been postponed and not canceled, while honoring those that were forced to close due to COVID-19 in its monthly list of Qualifying Productions -their directory of New York City shows in which the individual creative teams have 50% of the positions filled with women and/or trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) artists (directors, designers, and playwrights).
A key part of Parity's mission is to give extensive and free promotional support, through their Qualifying Productions program, to other theatre companies that fill 50% of the creative roles on their productions with women and/or trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) artists. They provide extensive free promotion in the form of social media, email blasts, PR support, and placement in their online directory of Qualifying Productions.
"Parity is going to do what we can to ensure audiences are up-to-date on Qualifying Productions working to resume their runs as soon as it is safe to do so, " says Parity's Founder and Artistic Director, Ludovica Villar-Hauser. "In a time where art is more important than ever, these productions are still extremely important to us at Parity Productions. We are not alone in this time of isolation; we seek to continue promoting the important work these companies and teams did while open and to aid the shows that are able to open later."
Parity Productions is also is working to double the profiles in their Women and TGNC Artists Database to promote artists' visibility to producers, artistic directors, and future collaborators looking to hire both for remote work now, and post-COVID-19.
Per Villar-Hauser: "as a special effort during this COVID-19 crisis, we are aiming to help NYC artists leverage this forced downtime to set themselves up for success when theaters reopen. We hope artists who are not currently part of the rapidly expanding TGNC Artists Database claim their own free profile and let colleagues know about this opportunity."
To visit the websites of postponed and honored productions and learn more about how you can help, go to http://www.parityproductions.org/qualifyingproductions.html or directly to the Qualifying Productions' own website, linked below.
Postponed due to COVID-19
Atlantic Theater Company
Roundabout Theatre Company
Stripped Scripts
Walter Kerr Theater
The Shed
Other Shore at the New Ohio Theatre
The Little Mermaid the Musical
Literally Live! Theatre
The Play Company & Clubbed Thumb
Brooks Atkinson Theatre
St. Luke's Theater
The Hess Collective
Third Rail Projects
Bated Breath Theatre Company
The Public Theater
spit&vigor
What to Send Up When It Goes Down
Playwrights Horizons
SoHo Rep
Closed early due to COVID-19
Roundabout Theatre Company
UP Theater Company
MCC Theater
Atlantic Theater Company
Keen Company
The Pond Theatre Company
The New Collectives
Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical
Love Arm'd Productions
Equally Divine: The Real Story of the Mona Lisa
Theatre 167
First by Faith: the Life of Mary McLeod Bethune
RPR Productions
La Lucha Arts
Carnival Girls Productions
Parity Productions
Ars Nova
WP Theater
Theater for the New City
Women on Fire: Stories from the Frontlines
Royal Family Productions
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