Recent Essays

Maria Patrice Amon describes how she developed and produced San Diego Repertory Theatre’s first Latinx New Play Festival. 

Laura Shamas reports on the successes and challenges of launching the year-long social media campaign #52PlaysbyWomen.

Jack Reuler discusses nearly two decades of incorporating work about, for, or with people with disabilities or on issues of disability at Mixed Blood Theatre.

Director and theatre professor Holly Derr gives advice on how to identify whether your theatre department might be ripe for sexual harrassment, and offers tangible steps for professors to change the culture of their departments.

Adriana Gaviria speaks on how entertainment industry unions and institutions in the US can step up to better advocate for parent artists.

Performer Stephanie Hayes reflects on how motherhood helped her reinvent her relationship to her own creativity.

Continuing the series on parent-artists, Ineke Ceder and Catherine Mueller Melwani discuss how research can play a role in creating a bridge between the parent-artist experiencing isolation and the solutions recommended for equity and parity.

Stage manager Carmelita Becnel reflects on the need to support mothers, women of color, and stage managers as creative collaborators in the rehearsal room.

Devon Berkshire lays out some tangible steps for decision-makers on creating a more family-friendly work environment.

Rachel Spencer Hewitt, PAAL founder, kicks off the parent advocacy in the arts series with an overview of the history of PAAL and a rationale for family-friendly practices in the theatre.