AMERICAN THEATRE: Parity Productions has named playwrights Melisa Annis and Corbin Went as the recipients of the company’s inaugural Annual Parity Commission for Women and Transgender Playwrights. The winners were presented with awards on Oct. 25 in New York City, and playwright Jordan Puckett received an honorable mention. Annis and Went each received an award of $2,500, and will get one closed reading and one public reading of the commissioned work, with an optional production.
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“It is an opportunity to create opportunity”. This final line sums up exactly the necessity of the Annual Parity Commission for Women and Transgender Playwrights and other commissions that benefit and affect various different minority groups that aren't traditionally represented in any part of the theatrical process. There are so many plays in the world, but there has been a lack in perspective until only recently, where we suddenly have a boom in representation and efforts for inclusion in the theatre community. Trans people and Women have always had to break boundaries in terms of paving a way in theatre, and thats just the reality, and I hope that theatre strays away from the typical white male director directing a pay about straight white people, and moves towards stories that are hardly ever told. Good art demands perspective, and without perspective from under represented groups, I truly believe that plays have the ability to reinvent and make theatre that reaches an even greater audience.
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