EIT Announces Dr. Michelle MacArthur as Lead Researcher

[Louise Forsyth]

Congratulations to you, Michelle, and good job Rebecca!!

 

Your work is so important to all of us in keeping us actively aware of the
serious and tenacious inequities in Canadian theatre. This has got to
change! Let’s all speak out and work aggressively to support Michelle and
Rebecca. Take a look at the seasons announced in theatres in your city,
whichever one it is, just to see how institutionalised and deeply rooted are
the imbalances. 

 

Louise Forsyth

 

De : Canadian Theatre Research [mailto:CANDRAMA at listserv.unb.ca] De la part
de Rebecca Burton
Envoyé : 10 novembre 2014 11:00
À : CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
Objet : EIT Announces Dr. Michelle MacArthur as Lead Researcher

 

  
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
<http://www.facebook.com/EquityinTheatre> ), Twitter (@EquityInTheatre),
and/or give us a call at PGC (#416-703-0201). 

 

Cheers,

 

Rebecca

 

Rebecca Burton

EIT Co-Organizer,

Membership and Professional Contracts Manager

Playwrights Guild of Canada 

 

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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
<https://www.facebook.com/EquityinTheatre>  and Twitter
<https://twitter.com/EquityInTheatre> . Website
<http://www.eit.playwrightsguild.ca/>  coming soon.

 

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