On Tuesday, Jerome Davis, artistic director of Burning Coal Theatre Company, issued a press release announcing that an alliance of nine theater companies in Raleigh, Durham, and Sanford had agreed to hire women to direct any 2017–18 season productions their organizations had not already assigned.
This was a response to the election season, to “make the point that women are a central part of our world and our work, and that they deserve to be in positions of leadership as much as men do,” Davis said in the press release.
The companies that signed onto the agreement included Black Ops Theatre Company, Honest Pint Theatre, Justice Theater Project, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Sonorous Road Productions, Temple Theatre, and the Women’s Theatre Festival.…