Green Light Produces Women in Entertainment

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Dec. 19, 2014 - PRLog -- Contact: Alex Dilks Pandola

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GREEN LIGHT PRODUCTIONS

Announces our Kickstarter campaign

Raising $5,000 to fund our 2015 season

Featuring an entire year of new plays written & directed by women

We have until January 8^th to make it happen!

Green Light Productions is LA’s newest company dedicated exclusively to producing plays written and directed by women.

In November 2014, we produced GLO (Green Light One-Acts) to sold-out audiences.  After this incredible production that featured 4 new plays by LA women, Green Light is dedicating its entire 2015 season to Los Angeles women playwrights.

Our 2015 season features 3 productions created entirely by LA women writers and directors.  We launched our first Kickstarter to engage our audience and to provide a way for folks to help women theatre artists make their voices heard – we have until January 8^th to make it happen!  Check out our Kickstarter and please consider making a pledge.  Any amount will show us that you care about our coming 2015 season of all women, all the time!

Green Light’s 2015 Season

First up is Shorties, which runs March 19-29th at The Miles Memorial Playhouse.

Shorties is a production of new, short, comedic plays written and directed by women.

Strangely, some people think that women aren’t as funny as men.  We’re doing Shorties to prove them wrong.

In 2007 the late Christopher Hitchens explained “Why Women Aren’t Funny.” To sum it up, Hitchens thought that women weren’t funny because of men, babies and religion. Maybe the women Hitchens knew found it difficult to be funny around him – it’s tough to be funny when you’re laughing so hard.

Where ARE the women writing comedy? In Katla McGlynn’s article “So Wait, Why Aren’t There More Women Writers in Late Night Again?” the amount of female writers working on late-night shows is practically non-existent.  If you look at theatres around the country, it’s not much better.  In 2014, Green Light discovered that out of the 349 theatres currently receiving funding from The Shubert Foundation, 125 of them weren’t producing any plays by women.  That’s definitely NOT funny.

Green Light created Shorties to celebrate women writing comedy and entertaining audiences.   Deadline for submissions is 12/31/14.  Guidelines and details are on our website.  No fee to submit- EVER.  Funny, smart, brave, #shorties.

In June 2015 we’ll be producing Lilys for The Hollywood Fringe Festival.  Lilys is a tribute to the one-woman show.  It’s an homage to Lily Tomlin- the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show, Appearing Nightly.  Tomlin won a Tony for her second solo show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.  Her third solo show Not Playing With a Full Deck opened in 2009 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  Lily Tomlin has been entertaining us for six decades.  It is in honor of her legacy that we create Lilys, a production that showcases three of LA’s most exciting and entertaining one-woman shows.  Submission guidelines will be posted in January.

To end our 2015 season we’re producing GLO 2015, Green Light’s annual production of one-act plays written and directed by women.  Created in 2004, 19 plays have had their world-premiere as part of GLO in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles.  We are thrilled to produce 4 new plays by LA women for GLO 2015.  Submission guidelines will be posted in Spring 2015.

About Green Light:

Green Light Productions is a 501(c)3 nonprofit theatre company dedicated to producing new work created by women.  Founded in 2003, by Alex Dilks Pandola, Green Light has worked with hundreds of women all over the county.  After 12 years in NYC and Philadelphia, Green Light relocated to Los Angeles and produced our LA premiere GLO 2014 in November.

In 2014, Green Light completed “The Shubert Report” to examine the 349 theatres that received $16.4 million in grants last year from the nation’s largest private funder of the performing arts.  GL discovered that only 26% of the plays produced by those theatres were written by women and that 35% of the theatres receiving Shubert grants were producing NO plays written by women.  With women playwrights and directors deeply underrepresented on our stages, Green Light bridges the equality gap one play at a time.

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