In this class, students will read a large canon of plays by current female playwrights working in the American Theatre today. These will include: Sibyl Kempson, Annie Baker, Annie Washburne, Frances Cowhig, Lisa Damour, Kia Cothron, Shiela Callaghan, and Lynn Nottage, Theresa Rebeck, Laura Eason, Anna Ziegler, Katori Hall, Lucy Thurber, Ruby Rae Spiegel, Dominique Morrisseau.  We will also look at current initiatives by groups such as The Lilly Awards and the Kilroy List, to level the playing field and will attempt to explore the systemic reasons for this gender inequity where women playwrights are concerned.

Work will include:  play discussion, staging of selected scenes read, research and some field trips.