Parity & Expand the Canon @ 2025 RISE SUMMIT

Featuring Ludovica!

Parity Productions is excited to be co-presenting a panel  with Expand the Canon at this years  2025 RISE SUMMIT on September 9th!  With many equity-focused tools already available, what's stopping the industry from using them, and how do we collectively shift from access in theory to access in practice?  This panel explores the resources attempting to shape a more inclusive industry. What's working, what's missing, and what support is needed to move from intention and aspiration to sustained action and systemic change? Panelists will discuss some of the practical resources already available, the barriers to their use, and how organizations within the RISE network and out of it can better collaborate to promote one another's efforts. With an emphasis on accountability, awareness, and action, this session aims to explore with the audience how we move forward without reinventing the wheel. FEATURING: Lee Bynum from RISE THEATRE - Moderator  Emily Lyon from EXPAND THE CANON- Panel Co-Host and Speaker Maria Porto from ACCESS BROADWAY - Special Guest Panelist Ludovica Villar-Hauser from PARITY PRODUCTIONS - Panel Co-Host and Speaker Get Tickets to the 2025 Rise Summit ($10-$20) Expand the Canon champions women and gender-expansive playwrights whose works should have always been considered classics. For over a decade, our partnerships with theaters, educators, and advocates have established a legacy of storytelling with gender equity at its core. By curating a collection of excellent historic plays, we're building a more inclusive and accurate theatrical canon. Learn More About Expand the Canon Access Broadway®, founded by Broadway veteran Ron DeVito in 1998, launched in 1999 as the first "All-Inclusive" Broadway Experience™, combining competition, workshops, and talent searches in dance, acting, and voice. Unlike traditional dance competitions, the program brought the full range of performing arts into one event. Drawing on his Broadway career (Cats, 42nd Street, Starlight Express), DeVito expanded the industry to include acting and vocal arts. For over 25 years, Access Broadway® has produced events nationwide, providing students, teachers, and aspiring performers with constructive competitions, performing arts education, and career opportunities. Many alumni have gone on to launch professional careers through this innovative platform. Learn More About Access Broadway RISE Theatre, a program of Maestra Music, seeks to build a more equitable and inclusive theatre industry by centralizing tools and resources through our network of partners and a national career platform that serves everyone in the industry, but intentionally designed for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds, including but not limited to people of color, women, trans, nonbinary, deaf, and disabled theatre professionals, to be seen, considered and hired. Only together we RISE. Learn More About RISE and Maestra