Performing Arts Feature | Chicago Reader: "Sadly, I'm the 100th white guy standing up here tonight," remarked Nick Bowling at the Jeff Awards ceremony last October as he accepted his trophy for best director of a musical. Then he pointed to his corecipient, Lili-Anne Brown, and said, "It's time to change, and this is where it starts, right here." The audience responded with the night's only standing ovation.
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I loved watching and reading this interview. These women are intelligent, passionate, woke, and just extremely honest about the prevalent problems with our society’s ingrained methodology and the discussion of incremental and arduous change that has been and still is occurring. The amount of female playwrights and directors is still significantly smaller than men. However, if the MeToo movement taught me anything, this world isn’t a man’s world. The discussion about theatre’s needing a “woman slot” for their director was super interesting. While some might perceive this profiling as negative, the choice of picking a woman director over a male director has to come from somewhere. These female directors all hope that once having a female director becomes more natural and normal, it’s a great opportunity for females to prove their worth. A female can be a director of anything, just like a male. Theatrical companies just need to realize that.
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