Parity Productions
Pictured: Paula Ewin. Photography by Trevor Rickner.
Arts Programming: Parity Productions offers workshops, productions, staged readings, and more recently a venture into filmed staged productions.
Job Boards: The Parity Database 2.0 (currently in beta testing at theparitydatabase.org) is a free, centralized, and easily searchable online database of women, trans, gender-expansive and intersex playwrights, directors, and designers of all ages, professional levels, races, and socioeconomic statuses who work in the industry in the New York City area. The Parity Database 2.0 provides much-needed visibility for artists of marginalized genders and provides producers and other artistic leaders with a key resource they need to implement equitable hiring practices. One of the features of the Parity Database 2.0 is the job board, where paid opportunities are listed.
Financial Opportunities: Each year Parity presents two Development Awards, one to a woman (cis or trans) and one to a trans, gender-expansive or intersex playwright who have both demonstrated a dedication to the craft of playwriting and a singular talent for storytelling and whose work is in harmony with Parity’s artistic mission. Each playwright receives a $2,500 prize and one year of new play development with Parity's dramaturgical team, at least one closed door reading and one public reading, with an option for Parity to produce the awarded work.
