Resources

Want to find out more about women in theatre? Below are useful links, databases and resources with information on  playwrights, designers, performers, productions companies, theatre organizations and more!

Directories & Databases:
The Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance http://ipaa.ca/members/membership-directory/
Playwrights Guild of Canada http://www.playwrightsguild.ca/playwrights
Canadian Women Director’s Catalogue: Click here!
Associated Designers of Canada:  http://www.designers.ca/members
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas http://www.lmda.org/civicrm/profile?force=1&gid=10

Theatre Companies & Festivals
Athena Theatre Company, PEI
B Current (Rock Paper Sistahz Fest), Toronto
Buddies in Bad Times, Toronto
FemFest (Sarasvati Productions), Winnipeg
Frank Theatre, Vancouver
Full Figure Theatre, Vancouver
Gailey Road Productions, Toronto
Half the Sky, Hamilton
HomeFirst, Halifax
Hysteria Festival, Toronto
Imago Theatre, Montreal
Insatiable Sisters, Toronto
Matadanze, Toronto
Nightwood Theatre, Toronto
Ruby Slippers, Vancouver
Sarasvati Productions, Winnipeg
Shameless Hussy Productions, Vancouver
She Said Yes Theatre, Newfoundland
She Speaks Event for IWD/ Flush Ink Productions, Kitchener
SkirtsaFire Festival, Edmonton
Three Sisters, Ottawa
Tomorrow’s Eve Theatre, Toronto
Toto Too, Ottawa
Urban Curvz, Calgary
Wet Ink Collective Society, British Columbia.
White Rooster Theatre, Newfoundland
Windsor Feminist Theatre, Windsor
Women’s Theatre and Creativity Centre, Halifax
Working Women’s Festival, St. John’s

Articles & Studies:
Adding it Up: http://www.playwrightsguild.ca/sites/default/files/AddingItUp.pdf
Ruby Slippers: http://www.rubyslippers.ca/news/invisibilty-factor-women-canadian-theatre
Ontario Arts Council: http://www.arts.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=399
Praxis Theatre: http://praxistheatre.com/2009/12/women-making-and-attending-theatre-up-women-in-charge-of-theatre-still-down/
Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/in-search-of-a-little-play-equity/article4281493/

Journal Issues & Books
http://canlit.ca/reviews/feminist_theatres
http://www.canadiantheatrereview.com/149-queer-womens-performance-2/