“We’ve been having these discussions for a long time, and the needle hasn’t moved much in terms of the actual numbers,” Hall says. “That’s troubling because it means this huge portion of the population doesn’t have a voice.”
Change has to start with female writers — not just in theater but in all forms of media, she says.
“One of my primary projects as a writer is to create female protagonists with the same kind of psychological scope and depth that we afford male protagonists,” she says. “To have their stories be about who these women are as individuals, rather than about a gender they belong to. To let women be at the center of stories with universal heft.
“We need so many more kinds of stories about the ways women can be in the world. That’s why it’s long past time to move that needle.”
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