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The Summit compilation

2/23/2014

 
Another week in the theatre, another Twitter event! This past Monday, the 17th, there was a, shall we call it a symposium? Here, I'll let Elissa Goetschius explain:
Monday night I attended the first session of The Summit, a series of discussions led by Washington Post reviewer Peter Marks and hosted by Arena Stage. This night was made up of a panel of artistic directors including Molly Smith (Arena), Eric Schaeffer (Signature), Paul Tetreault (Ford’s), Ryan Rilette (Round House), and Paata Tsikurishvili (Synetic). Michael Kahn (Shakespeare) was initially slated to attend but ended up double-booked and spent the evening at his own theatre interviewing Patti LuPone.

The evening was not livestreamed or recorded and there was no official Twitter presence, but several participants, myself included, were live tweeting using the hashtag #TheSummit. The response to the speakers and to the tweets quickly escalated with many theatre artists around the country following along online.
Ilana Brownstein compiled the Twitter comments through Storify. You can catch up there. There were so many responses that I wanted to compile them into one spot so people can find them and join in the conversation. If there are more that you've found, please list them in the comments. GO FORTH AND READ!

"The Role of the Theatre Critic" by Wendy Rosenfield

"Arts Education Won't Save Us from Boring, Inaccessible Theater" by Mike Lew

"Season Programming and Personal Agency" by Brett Steven Abelman

"#TheSummit: Vancouver Stats" by Lois Dawson

"Climbing the Summit" by Elissa Goetschius

"Artistic Directors Show the World Their White-Guy Binders, Twitter Explodes in Their Faces" by Brendan Kiley

A List of Women Playwrights! compiled by Christine Evans

Also, I'll crack open my own personal playwright binders (my binders are not gender specific) and list some women playwrights I know personally (in no particular order).

  • Sarah Sander
  • Sarah Hammond
  • Cristina Pippa
  • Morgan Sheehan-Bubla
  • Melissa Leilani Larson
  • Jennifer Fawcett
  • Lisa Day
  • Lisa Schlesinger
  • Sherry Kramer
  • Diana Grisanti
  • Andrea Ciannavei
  • Megan Gogerty
  • Laura Harrington
  • Melanie Marnich
  • Ruth McKee
  • Carson Kreitzer
  • Ellen Struve
  • Merri Biechler
  • Dana Lynn Formby
  • Madhuri Shekar
  • Christina Quintana
  • Emily Schwend
  • Sarah Gubbins
  • Neeley Gossett
  • Kimberly del Busto Ramírez

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