Early days, but seems male playwrights/directors/producers pitch a LOT more. Women: pitch us shows please. Door is open. We want your work.
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@CMPrendergast_
We're usually after production proposals not unsolicited manuscripts. We work with co-pros. Also, FYI no man has ever asked that question.
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@JSTheatre
Totally right to ask this, but women writers, having been ignored/objectified/vilified for centuries, often find 'pitching' a tough ask.1/2
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@stellduffy
Agreed. Well, in our own small way, we're saying it now. Come in. Send the email. We have no time and no money but let's see what happens.
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@JSTheatre
Are you asking for scripts for your reading pile or proposals for co-productions? Also, what's your email address? Asking for a friend.
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@Hywel_Morgan
Hi! Email on Twitter header. We massively prefer co-production proposals but sometimes just sending the email is the way forward...
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@VictoriaJSadler
@stellduffy
Thanks Victoria. Helpful and makes sense. We are TINY and penniless and we cannot go to the writers/producers. We wish we could.
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@VictoriaJSadler
@stellduffy
This has become a playwright debate - originally aimed at producers and directors too. And we did name agents as they're critical to this.
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@VictoriaJSadler
@stellduffy
No intention to shame anyone, obviously. Best we can do within avail time and money is to say staging female stories is a priority for us.
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@JSTheatre
What Stella & others said. Invite me in. I know about opening space for, and making invitations to, and being, a woman.
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@toksvig
You're invited. Come and see our work this autumn. It's over 50% female on and off stage. If you like what we do, please get in touch!
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@JSTheatre
And if women are holding back perhaps this feeds, partly, into Last weeks discussion abt lack of women's plays on main stages??
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@suzettecoon
Absolutely agreed. It's agents and producers as well - maybe more importantly as we're normally doing plays by people who have rep.
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@JSTheatre
delighted! What to who and where do we send? I’ll pop on the London women’s writers page.
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@SerenaHaywood
Don't get up TOO many hopes. We remain an unfunded theatre and we're ideally after production proposals. Email on Twitter profile for qs.
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@JSTheatre
2/2 it's possible that your ask needs to be different to change the culture of who pitches what.
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@JSTheatre
We run a small scale new writing theatre in Brighton (
@cast_ironacts
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