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Title: A stage of their own
Post by: LostInTime on August 16, 2007, 08:39:18 AM
Twin Cities Daily Planet (http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/6150)
By Nancy Hedin and Michele St. Martin , MInnesota Women's Press

In contrast, while you might see a man onstage at a 20% Theatre Company production, the words he's speaking were written by a woman, Avitabile said. "We focus on ... taking the script from the bottom of the pile, that was written by a woman," she said. Or, rather, by someone who identifies as female. "Female is not limited to biological women ... we enthusiastically welcome transgender, transsexual, and gender-queer theater artists [which] includes self-identified women."