UW presents Good Kids as part of a multi-campus playwriting initiative

Although men and women enter theater graduate programs in equal numbers, only 20% of professional productions nationwide have female writers or directors. In the 2013-14 season, not one new play by a woman was produced on Broadway, even though Annie Baker won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her off-Broadway play The Flick. Award-winning playwright Theresa Rebeck and others have noted this glass ceiling: In 1908, only 12.8% of the productions on Broadway were written by women. Some 100 years later, the needle has not budged.