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The 2nd Union Women Actors' Coalition "EMPOWERING WOMEN" Play Festival
On Monday September 21st at 8pm, the 2nd "Empowering Women" Play Festival will be presented by the Union Women Actors' Coalition (UWAC) at the John & Jean Knox Center for the Performing Arts, 2600 Mission Bell Drive, San Pablo, California. "Empowering Women" will showcase the talents of local women theatre artists: actors, directors, stage managers and playwrights, most of whom are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Tickets are $25 each.
New plays by Torange Yaghiazarian, Madeline Puccioni, Kirsten Brandt, Lynne Kaufmann & Betty Shamieh
Directed by Chloe Bronzan*, Amy Crumpacker*, Susan Shay*, Erin Gilley, Erin Merritt (*Member of Actors' Equity Association)
Stage Managed by Becky Sackville-West*, Nicole Langley*, Les Reinhardt* (*Member of Actors' Equity Association)
Performed by Allison Rich, Amy Prosser, Anne Buelteman, Bonnie Akimoto, Claudia Rosa, Éowyn Mader, Janis Bergmann, Kelly Ground, Liz Anderson, Louise Chegwidden, Maria Affinito, Mary Baird, Rebecca Castelli, Susan Monson, Susan Soriano, Tiiu Eva Rebane, Wanda McCaddon (members of Actors' Equity Association) & EMCs Maura Halloran and Anne Hallinan!
The "Empowering Women" Play Festival was first produced in 2013. This year, UWAC's Festival is raising money to support female theatre artists at Contra Costa College the funds will be designated as a scholarship for an enrolled female theatre student and help fund the hiring of Equity women in CCC theater productions. Our goal is to employ more female actors and stage managers, have professional theatre women as role models in a school setting and to support women studying theatre in the Bay Area.
Who is UWAC?
The Union Women Actors' Coalition (UWAC) was created by a group of female AEA actors and stage managers in the San Francisco Bay Area who are vitally concerned about the limited opportunities, locally and nationally, for professional Equity women in the theatre.
What is the "Empowering Women" Play Festival?
The Saturday before the performance, five playwrights will be given an individual prompt, inspired by the theme "Empowering Women," upon which to base a 10-minute play. The playwrights will meet with the women on their team: AEA actors, AEA stage managers and directors. The playwrights will then have 24 hours to create their play, at which time the scripts will be turned over to the directors and actors, who will have the night to read and the following day to rehearse, stage, and mount the play. A few more hours to work out sound and lighting cues with stage management and then it is Show Time!
Why "Empowering Women"?
Women are over 50 percent of the population. Studies find that nationwide, over 70 percent of theatre ticket buyers are women. Studies also show that plays by and about women consistently find the most success with US theatre box office tallies. Yet women are not represented equally on US stages, and women playwrights are produced far less than their male counterparts the ratio is about two or three men to one woman (in both cases). Why is that?
UWAC is working to bring this disparity into the public eye and to foster a conversation about how we as a community can create positive change, working towards a day when gender parity will be achieved in the awarding of union contracts.
Our Beneficiary:
Contra Costa College is a public community college serving the diverse communities of West Contra Costa County and all others seeking a quality education. Contra Costa's Drama Department offerings include a wide variety of performance and technical theatre courses as well as the opportunity to perform in fully staged productions alongside theatre professionals at the John & Jean Knox Center for the Performing Arts. Recent productions include SILENT SKY by award winning Bay Area playwright Lauren Gunderson and FOR COLORED GIRLS by Ntozake Shange.
Donations and $20 of a full priced-ticket benefit the Contra Costa College Foundation (a 501 (c) 3): http://coast.contracosta.edu/aboutccc/CCCFOUN/Shared Documents/default.aspx
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LocationJohn & Jean Knox Center for the Performing Arts (View)
2600 Mission Bell Drive
San Pablo, CA 94806
United States
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