The Kilroys' List

The Kilroys' List is a gender parity initiative to end the "systematic underrepresentation of female and trans* playwrights" in the American theater industry.Gender disparity is defined as the gap of unproduced playwrights' whose plays are being discriminated against based on the writer's gender identification and intersectional identities of race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, and ability. Recent statistical research released in November 2015, entitled The Count, gathered that 22% of total surveyed professional productions from 2011-2013 annual seasons were written by women playwrights, 3.8% of the total were written by women playwrights of color, and 0.4% of the total were written by foreign women playwrights of color. 78% of total surveyed professional productions were written by men playwrights.

First released in June 2014, The List is an annual collection of highly-recommended contemporary plays written by female and trans* identified authors, which are read or seen by an industry professional within the last twelve months.The List was established by the The Kilroys, a group of Los Angeles-based female-identified playwrights and producers who were tired of their plays remaining unproduced while artistic directors claimed "We chose the best plays" for their theater companies' annual seasons. The namesake of The Kilroys originated from the World War II graffiti tag, "Kilroy Was Here." The tagline for The Kilroys is "We Make Trouble and Plays." The Kilroys members include: Zakiyyah Alexander, Bekah Brunstetter, Sheila Callaghan, Carla Ching, Annah Feinberg, Sarah Gubbins, Laura Jacqmin, Joy Meads, Kelly Miller, Meg Miroshnik, Daria Polatin, Tanya Saracho, and Marisa Wegrzyn.

The List 2014 featured the Top 46, a collection of 46 plays highly-recommended by selected Nominators. The Nominators consisted of a number of contemporary theater artists and administrators currently working in the theater industry.

The 2015 List: The Top 7% featured 53 plays.

To qualify as eligible for The List, a play must be:

Gender Parity is a term that has grown to widespread popularity in the theater industry in recent years. There have been several initiatives started to address the underrepresentation of, and discrimination against, women and trans* artists and administrators. Much of this work has been statistical research based on numbers of women and trans* artists and administrators filing roles within a theater organization's staff and theatrical season.

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