Tools & Directories
Trans* Theater Makers List
Trans, gender non-conforming, and gender variant theater professionals. Created by Calvin Anderson. Google Sheet; Self-populated.
Learn MoreThe Women and TGNC Artists Database - Parity Productions
Parity Productions is the only organization to host a free database of women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) playwrights, directors, and designers working in professional theatre in New York City.
Learn MoreThe T List
Transgender Professionals in Theatre, Film, Television, Music, and New Media. Created by Shakina Nayfack. Google Sheet; Self-populated.
Learn MoreThe Parity Database
A database of women, trans, and gender-expansive New York theatre artists. The Parity Database commissions and develops original plays; produces and promotes the work of playwrights, directors, and designers; and provides opportunities for underrepresented voices to work in theatre.
Learn MoreThe No Excuses List
Women/Non-Binary/Two Spirit Dramaturgs of Color. Google Sheet; View-only.
Learn MoreThe Mix - Steppenwolf Theatre
The Mix is a new play resource highlighting plays that feature casts of intersectional and intersecting social identities. The goal of this project is to assist in the collective effort to move towards a holistic, nuanced, and equitable approach to diversity in the theatre.
Learn MoreThe Lilly Awards
Celebrating, supporting, and advocating for women theater artists by promoting gender parity at all levels of theatrical production. The Lilly Awards were started in the Spring of 2010 as an outlet to honor the work of women in the American theater. In partnership with the Dramatists Guild, The Lilly Awards have gathered resources and conducted a national survey simply called The Count that accurately showcases which theaters are producing the work of women, and which are not. The Lilly Awards Foundation is dedicated to honoring the work of women in the American theater.
Learn MoreThe Kilroys
The Kilroys is a gang of playwrights, directors and producers in LA and NYC who are done talking about gender parity and are taking action. They mobilize others in their field and leverage their own power to support one another.
Learn MoreThe Cultural Intifada Creative Toolbox
Creative and practical resources for standing up in solidarity for Palestinian rights and against artistic censorship, compiled by artists, activists, human rights groups and cultural organizations.
Learn MoreStateraArts
UPLIFT. AMPLIFY. ADVANCE. Statera takes positive action to bring women* into full and equal participation in the arts. Extensive resources on their website (many of which have also been shared here), mentorship and leadership opportunities, and intersectional feminism at its core.
Learn MoreSouth Asian Theater Artists
Theatre artists from the South Asian diaspora. Google Sheet; self-populated. Curated by Natasha Sinha. Includes "Other resources!" tab curated by Roger Tang.
Learn MoreQueerMusicals.com
An A-Z list of queer musicals, including segmented lists of Musicals with Trans and Nonbinary Characters, Musicals with Queer Black Characters, Musicals with Queer Asian Characters, Musicals with Queer Disabled Characters, and more.
Learn MorePOC Theatre Designers and Technicians
Created and curated by Megan Sandberg-Zakian. Google Sheet; Self-populated. Includes "Other Lists and Links" tab curated by Key Member Megan Sandberg-Zakian.
Learn MoreNon-Binary Monologues
A collection of monologues written for non-binary actors (actors whose identities lie outside the gender binary of male/female.) Created by Key K. Woodzick.
Learn MoreMaia Directors
For organizations and artists engaging with stories from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA). Includes a performer database. Created/run by Kareem Fahmy, Evren Odcikin, Key Member Megan Sandberg-Zakian, and Pirronne Yousefzadeh.
Learn MoreMaestra Resource Page
A huge list of resources for women of the theater who are hireable as composers, music directors, orchestrators, conductors, arrangers, rehearsal pianists, songwriters, music assistants, lyricists, transcribers, music producers, pit musicians, music educators, and more - many resources for women specifically, LGBTQ artists specifically, and diverse artists specifically.
Learn MoreMaestra Directory
Search here to find women of the theater who are hireable as composers, music directors, orchestrators, conductors, arrangers, rehearsal pianists, songwriters, music assistants, lyricists, transcribers, music producers, pit musicians, music educators, and more. Created/run by MAESTRA, a membership group of female-identifying, non-binary, and gender non-conforming composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, rehearsal pianists and other musicians who are in an underrepresented minority in musical theater. Website.
Learn MoreLatinx Theater Directors
Lists only active directors with at least 2 fully-realized productions in the past five years, or recent experience in new or devised work. Google Sheet; View-only.
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