Parity’s 10th Annual #Pledge4Parity campaign

On May 16, 2016, Parity Productions was launched from two separate longstanding non-profits:
a theatre production company and an advocacy organization for women in theatre.

The #Pledge4Parity is Parity’s annual signature fundraising and awareness campaign. Learn how we are moving the gender needle forward with the help of supporters like you.

For ten years, Parity has expanded who gets developed, produced, and seen in the American theater, where gender equality continues to be a challenge. On Broadway, of the 16 plays that opened in 2025, nearly 69% were written and directed by men, with women accounting for just 31% of those roles, and no publicly identified trans or nonbinary playwrights or directors represented in that cohort.

Parity Productions exists to address this imbalance at every stage, from development through production and hiring. We invest in the moments between drafts. We stay when the field contracts.

When you give to Parity Productions, you are making a tangible impact on the lives of artists such as our 2025 Parity Development Award Winners, Dom Martello and Monet Hurst-Mendoza. Their plays will be heard, because of you.

This #Pledge4Parity, help us protect the next decade. There is work to do.

The #Pledge4Parity is different because we’re different.

Parity Productions:
✨ develops and produces work by women, trans, gender-expansive, and intersex playwrights
✨ follows a 90% gender parity hiring practice for all our creative teams from table readings to full productions
✨ provides tools to make it easier for our colleagues in the industry to practice 50% gender parity hiring in creative teams
✨ models the change we wish to see in the NYC theatre industry.

Your donation helps us develop and produce unique plays by underrepresented writers—staged by talented directors and designers. You’re actively supporting those underrepresented artists and their voices by helping us continue to champion change.