EIT Announces Dr. Michelle MacArthur as Lead Researcher

[Rebecca Burton]

For Immediate Release 



Playwrights Guild of Canada, in partnership with some of the arts industry’s
most vital organizations, has proudly launched the Equity in Theatre (EIT) initiative.





Given the decline in rates of representation for women playwrights in recent years,
and the trickledown effect this has in other areas (such as directing, acting,
and design), EIT has been created to help redress existent gender inequities in
the theatre industry. 




Equity in Theatre is delighted to announce that Dr. Michelle MacArthur has been
contracted to undertake a preparatory research study focused on the successes
and failures of previous equity initiatives. Her final report will provide a
series of “best practice” recommendations that will serve as a foundational
framework for EIT as the project moves forward.


For more information, please see the press release attached here and below. 



Follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/EquityinTheatre), Twitter
(@EquityInTheatre), and/or give us a call at PGC (#416-703-0201).  Cheers, Rebecca Rebecca BurtonEIT Co-Organizer,Membership and Professional Contracts ManagerPlaywrights Guild of Canada  -- 

For Immediate
Release

 

EQUITY IN THEATRE (EIT) ANNOUNCES 

RESEARCHER FOR EIT PROJECT

 (TORONTO, ON – November 10, 2014) Equity
in Theatre is delighted to announce that Dr.
Michelle MacArthur has been contracted to undertake a preparatory research
study focused on the successes and failures of previous equity initiatives.

Dr. MacArthur completed
her PhD at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and
Performance Studies, specializing in Canadian women’s theatre. She has
published articles in alt.theatre, Canadian Theatre Review, and Theatre Research in Canada, and has
twice been awarded the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Award for
Theatre, Drama and Performance in French for her work on Quebec’s Théâtre
Expérimental des Femmes (2012, 2014). Dr. MacArthur is currently a sessional
instructor at the University of Toronto and the book review editor for Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches
théâtrales au Canada. 

The
EIT research study will analyze past equity endeavours and related follow-up
actions at home and abroad, in theatre and elsewhere, in order to create a
series of “best practice” recommendations that will serve as a foundational
framework for the EIT initiative as a whole. This will ensure past mistakes are
not repeated or time wasted “reinventing the wheel,” while successes are
capitalized on, which will maximize the overall effectiveness and impact of the
Equity in Theatre project.

With
this and its other activities (such as a Symposium in April 2015), Equity in
Theatre hopes to foster dialogue on an (inter)national scale, develop social
actions that will help effect change, and generate greater awareness of and
exposure to Canadian women in theatre, all the while drawing attention to the
systemic discrimination that permeates the industry still. 

For
more information about the study, or EIT in general, contact Rebecca Burton or
Jennie Egerdie. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Website coming soon.

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