17PERCENT

The key aim of 17Percent is to widen the debate about why women aren't getting their work produced and help more women get more of their work performed in the UK. We also aim to decrease the gender imbalance in UK theatre through positive interventions, working with other like-minded organisations and theatre practitioners... 17Percent is an organisation set up to support and promote UK-based female playwrights, though we also promote and support women working in all fields of theatre making, and script writing. It is a totally unfunded voluntary initiative... 17Percent was set up by playwright Sam Hall in 2009. While taking writing courses, including an MA in Creative Writing, she noticed a significant imbalance in the number of women to men. In a class of 20, for example, there would be only about 4 men. But the majority of the plays studied on these courses were written by men; and the majority of plays performed at UK theatres were written by men. So why weren't all those women..

Primary location: Edinburgh United Kingdom