Lunch at the Hall: WRITING THE SHOW: Talking to Women Creators

Lunch at the Hall: WRITING THE SHOW: Talking to Women Creators

Free admission 

Cox & Palmer Second Space

Equity In Theatre (EIT) is a new and inclusive initiative designed to help redress gender inequities in the theatre industry. Although women form the vast majority of theatre school graduates, support workers, amateur practitioners, and audience members, when it comes to key creative roles in the sector (e.g. AD, director, and playwright), their numbers diminish substantially, dropping below the 35% marker. With funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Trillium Foundation, EIT will work for change:

-fostering dialogue

-generating greater awareness of and exposure to Canadian women practitioners

-developing community actions to help rectify industry imbalances.

This will be achieved via a multi-faceted and multi-partnered response involving the national community as a whole. Our panel is just a part of this initiative.

Panel moderated by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (Steering Committee for Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Equity in Theatre initiative (EIT)

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a prolific wordslinger, working for change through the arts as a playwright, director, and performer. Notable works for the stage include Salome’s Clothes, The First Stone, and Cake. She has been playwright-in-residence at Obsidian Theatre, lead vocalist for Belladonna & the Awakening, and contributor to Afrotoronto.com. DM is currently the general manager of Native Earth Performing Arts.  In 2013 Donna-Michelle received a Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts.