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THE PARITY DATABASE
As we've evolved our gender language—embracing the term trans and gender-expansive in place of
trans and gender nonconforming/TGNC—The Women and TGNC Artists Database is now The Parity Database.
Simple, easy to remember, and still here to serve you. Thanks for your support of our name change.
trans and gender nonconforming/TGNC—The Women and TGNC Artists Database is now The Parity Database.
Simple, easy to remember, and still here to serve you. Thanks for your support of our name change.
"When putting together a team for a new show, Parity Productions' [The Parity Database] is usually my first stop. They've made it very easy to find many qualified artists in just about every discipline. It saves so much time to have one source to visit rather than spending hours Googling and asking colleagues for recommendations, and it has introduced me to some wonderful colleagues I might not have known about or found on my own."
–Cody Lassen, Tony Award-winning producer
–Cody Lassen, Tony Award-winning producer
FIND YOUR COLLABORATOR FOR YOUR NEXT PROJECT
Parity Productions’ The Parity Database:
- Creates visibility for women, trans, and gender-expansive playwrights, directors, and designers working in professional theatre in New York City.
- Provides a free online tool for artistic leaders who seek to create more equitable hiring practices for creative teams.
- So that more New York City productions meet our 50% gender parity hiring standard for creative teams.
To be a part of our database, you must be a theatre artist who has worked on at least one production in New York City in the discipline that will be listed on your profile. For example, if you identify as a performer and playwright, you must have had at least one production in NYC of your work as a playwright. If you identify as a director and a playwright, you must have NYC credits in both fields to be listed under both disciplines in the database.
Artists in our database are also added to a closed group on Facebook where they can network and share opportunities.
Artists in our database are also added to a closed group on Facebook where they can network and share opportunities.
A note about profile organization:
We have chosen to organize profiles in The Parity Database by union/guild/society/organization membership in an effort to facilitate the hiring process for producers seeking job candidates, on the recommendation of our industry colleagues. We recognize that union membership or lack thereof comes, in many cases, with certain financial and reputational implications, and want to state here, clearly and publicly, that this feature of our database is not a judgment on the professionalism of artists working at any level in theatre.
Questions about The Parity Database? Email us at info@parityproductions.org.
If you are a fan of our advocacy efforts, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram for updates.
Need to update your profile? Email team@parityproductions.org at any time, and we'll update your profile asap.
If you are a fan of our advocacy efforts, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram for updates.
Need to update your profile? Email team@parityproductions.org at any time, and we'll update your profile asap.
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All members on our database are encouraged to let us know if you get hired through your profile.
We will be happy to shout out about it on social media.
We will be happy to shout out about it on social media.
Looking for an artist to employ/collaborate with? In addition to our database, check out these resources:
- Asian American Stage Directors - Google Sheet; Self-populated. Send additions or corrections to Peter J. Kuo (contact info inside).
- Black Female Theatre Directors - Created by Jocelyn Bioh. Google Sheet; Self-populated.
- Black Women Directors - List and profiles of Black women and non-binary filmmakers. Created by Danielle A. Scruggs. Website.
- Deaf Theatre Artists and ASL Interpreters (Access Issues and Solutions) - Google Doc; Self-populated.
- Disabled Actors - Largest database of disabled actors in the United States, privately managed by Disability Inclusion Consultant Christine Bruno. Contact her at BrunoDisabilityInclusion@gmail.com or visit BrunoDisabilityInclusion.com for casting inquiries and her full range of services.
- Diverse Dramaturgs: Racially, Ethnically, Culturally - Created/administered by Martine Kei Green-Rogers and LMDA. Google Sheet; View-only.
- Film Fatales - A Nonprofit advocating for parity in the film industry and supporting hundreds of women feature film and television directors around the world who meet regularly to share resources, collaborate on projects and build an environment in which to make their films. Founded by Leah Meyerhoff in 2013.
- Free the Work - A curated talent discovery platform for underrepresented creators in film. Created by Alma Har'el. Website.
- Indigenous Artist Network - Native American, Alaskan Native, First Nations, Indigenous, and Aboriginal individuals in theatre. Google Sheet; View-only.
- Indigenous Direction - For companies and artists who want to create accurate work about, for, and with Indigenous Peoples. Created/ran by Larissa FastHorse and Ty Defoe.
- Latinx Stage Artistic Personnel - Google Sheet from Form responses; View-only.
- Latinx Stage Managers - Google Sheet from Form responses; View-only.
- Latinx 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.
- Latinx Theatre Scholars - Google Sheet from Form responses; View-only.
- Maestra Directory - Search here to find women of the theater who are hirable 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.
- Maia Directors - For organizations and artists engaging with stories from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA). Includes a performer database. Created/ran by Kareem Fahmy, Evren Odcikin, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, and Pirronne Yousefzadeh.
- The Mix - A new play resource list highlighting new and underproduced plays that feature casts of intersectional and intersecting social identities. Website; Curated by Steppenwolf.
- The No Excuses List - Women/Non-Binary/Two Spirit Dramaturgs of Color. Google Sheet; View-only.
- POC Theatre Designers and Technicians - Created and curated by Megan Sandberg-Zakian. Google Sheet; Self-populated. Includes "Other Lists and Links" tab curated by Megan Sandberg-Zakian.
- Primetime - An inclusive and supportive network and database of women working in the Film, TV, and Commercial Industries across pre-production, production and post-production. By ‘women,’ we mean all women (trans, intersex, and cis); all those who experience oppression as women (including non-binary and gender non-conforming people), and all those who identify as women. Web-hosted database; by membership only. Created/ran by Veritas Sine Metu (UK-based).
- Ring of Keys Directory - Queer women and TGNC artists working on and offstage in musical theatre. Website. Created by Andrea Prestinario and Royer Bockus and maintained by Ring of Keys members.
- South 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.
- The T List - Transgender Professionals in Theatre, Film, Television, Music, and New Media. Created by Shakina Nayfack. Google Sheet; Self-populated.
- Trans* Theater Makers List - Trans, gender non-conforming, and gender variant theater professionals. Created by Calvin Anderson. Google Sheet; Self-populated.
