Text of Theresa Rebeck Laura Pels Keynote Address

Text of Theresa Rebeck Laura Pels Keynote Address:

Last night I saw someone do something very brave. My friend, Theresa Rebeck, a very successful playwright, TV writer and novelist, got up in front of a group of theatre people and talked about gender. She talked about how her career has been hampered because she is a woman. She talked about how she became toxic after a bad NY Times review. She talked about the abysmal number of plays produced by women. She talked about the missing women’s plays.

She challenged the theatre community to acknowledge that it has a gender problem and to do something about it.