TDF, Please Reconsider 2010 Wasserstein Prize
- target: Theatre Development Fund and Wasserstein Prize Committee
- sponsored by: American Theatre Community
- signature goal: 5,000
- signatures:
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
-- Wendy Wasserstein
Dear TDF and 2010 Wasserstein Prize Committee,
Please reconsider your decision regarding the 2010 Wasserstein Prize and select a recipient, or recipients, to receive the award. Your claim that "none of the plays were truly outstanding in their current incarnation" sends a discouraging message to early career theatre artists at a time when these artists need more support than ever. The prize is not to support a production of the play, but the promise of the writer.
We must nurture the next generation of women playwrights. In these times, when theatres are closing and cutting back on new play development, and when still only 20% of plays produced by American theatres annually are written by women, recognition by the Wasserstein Prize has the power to change the life of the recipient.
As members of the American theatre community, we ask you to reconsider your decision and do something remarkable for a young woman playwright.
-- Wendy Wasserstein
Dear TDF and 2010 Wasserstein Prize Committee,
Please reconsider your decision regarding the 2010 Wasserstein Prize and select a recipient, or recipients, to receive the award. Your claim that "none of the plays were truly outstanding in their current incarnation" sends a discouraging message to early career theatre artists at a time when these artists need more support than ever. The prize is not to support a production of the play, but the promise of the writer.
We must nurture the next generation of women playwrights. In these times, when theatres are closing and cutting back on new play development, and when still only 20% of plays produced by American theatres annually are written by women, recognition by the Wasserstein Prize has the power to change the life of the recipient.
As members of the American theatre community, we ask you to reconsider your decision and do something remarkable for a young woman playwright.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
-- Wendy Wasserstein
We the undersigned respectfully request that you reconsider the decision regarding the 2010 Wasserstein Prize and select a recipient, or recipients, to receive the award. Your claim that %u201Cnone of the plays were truly outstanding in their current incarnation" sends a discouraging message to early career theatre artists at a time when these artists need more support than ever. The prize is not to support a production of the play, but the promise of the writer.
We must nurture the next generation of women playwrights. In these times, when theatres are closing and cutting back on new play development, and when still only 20% of plays produced by American theatres annually are written by women, recognition by the Wasserstein Prize has the power to change the life of the recipient.
As members of the American theatre community, we ask you to reconsider your decision and do something remarkable for a young woman playwright.
-- Wendy Wasserstein
We the undersigned respectfully request that you reconsider the decision regarding the 2010 Wasserstein Prize and select a recipient, or recipients, to receive the award. Your claim that %u201Cnone of the plays were truly outstanding in their current incarnation" sends a discouraging message to early career theatre artists at a time when these artists need more support than ever. The prize is not to support a production of the play, but the promise of the writer.
We must nurture the next generation of women playwrights. In these times, when theatres are closing and cutting back on new play development, and when still only 20% of plays produced by American theatres annually are written by women, recognition by the Wasserstein Prize has the power to change the life of the recipient.
As members of the American theatre community, we ask you to reconsider your decision and do something remarkable for a young woman playwright.
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"If you want people to hear you, go viral." - WSJ 11/15/10
Thank you so much for signing the petition asking TDF to reconsider the 2010 Wasserstein Prize. We were pleased to learn on Monday that TDF is now rethinking and refining their selection process with the goal of choosing a winner. This reversal was in large part due to this petition and the outcry that spread throughout the theatre community via the Internet last weekend. Our voices were heard. Moreover, an impassioned dialogue around the importance of encouraging early career (and not-so-early career) playwrights was sparked and is continuing.
For more information, please see: "A Do-Over for the Wasserstein Playwriting Prize" - New York Times, 11/15/10.
"If you want people to hear you, go viral." - WSJ 11/15/10
Thank you so much for signing the petition asking TDF to reconsider the 2010 Wasserstein Prize. We were pleased to learn on Monday that TDF is now rethinking and refining their selection process with the goal of choosing a winner. This reversal was in large part due to this petition and the outcry that spread throughout the theatre community via the Internet last weekend. Our voices were heard. Moreover, an impassioned dialogue around the importance of encouraging early career (and not-so-early career) playwrights was sparked and is continuing.
For more information, please see: "A Do-Over for the Wasserstein Playwriting Prize" - New York Times, 11/15/10.
"If you want people to hear you, go viral." - WSJ 11/15/10
Thank you so much for signing the petition asking TDF to reconsider the 2010 Wasserstein Prize. We were pleased to learn on Monday that TDF is now rethinking and refining their selection process with the goal of choosing a winner. This reversal was in large part due to this petition and the outcry that spread throughout the theatre community via the Internet last weekend. Our voices were heard. Moreover, an impassioned dialogue around the importance of encouraging early career (and not-so-early career) playwrights was sparked and is continuing.
For more information, please see: "A Do-Over for the Wasserstein Playwriting Prize" - New York Times, 11/15/10.
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