Breaking Character: The Count is an ongoing study that asks the question, “Who Is Being Produced In American Theaters?” It is presented here for the first time using three years of data from productions in regional theaters in America. As you will learn later, only 22% of those productions were written by women. This means that if life worked like the theater, 4 out of 5 things you had ever heard would have been said by men. That means you would have missed a lot, given the kinds of things you learn from women. And why are we missing the voices of women in the theater? There is one simple answer: artistic directors and producers choose not to present their plays. Our task from here on is to determine how best to change the way people make the choices that silence the voices of women.
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