EPISODE 57:
PAYING A LIVABLE WAGE IN THEATRE WITH RYAN GUZZO PURCELL
Host: Ethan Steimel
Release Date: 06/14/2021
Release Date: 06/14/2021
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Can non profit theaters afford to pay livable wages?
Director Ryan Guzzo Purcell joins us to talk about The Williams Project, a Seattle based theatre company with a core belief to pay a livable wage to its staff while providing a pay-what-you-can model for its audience. The company is six years old and is hoping to break into regional theatre status. If it does so, it will pay the highest wages of any non profit regional theater in the country |
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Links and Resources
The Williams Project
James Baldwin
Blues for Mister Charlie
Actor's Equity Rate Sheets
USA 829 Rate Sheets for Theatre Designers (USA is the design union)
Good Analysis of Non-Profit Broadway by Rob Meiksins
Azuka Theatre - Philadelphia
Theatre MU - Minneapolis
Ryan Guzzo Purcell
Artistic Director | The Williams Project
Ryan Guzzo Purcell is the Artistic Director of The Williams Project, for which he has directed Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending and The Glass Menagerie, James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie, Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding, and Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day. From 2013 to 2015, he served as the Associate Artistic Director of Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where he has directed Mfoniso Udofia's Sojourners, Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, and the world premiere of Christina Anderson’s pen/man/ship. Other directing work has been seen at Intiman Theatre, The Hangar Theater, LaMaMa ETC, Brown Playwrights Rep, The National New Play Network Showcase, The Village Gate, The Olney Theatre Center, FringeNYC, and the Kennedy Center as part of the American College Theatre Festival. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a Princess Grace Award winner, and a Drama League Directing Fellow. He holds an MFA in directing from Brown University/Trinity Rep and a BFA from Boston University in Theatre Studies.
James Baldwin
Blues for Mister Charlie
Actor's Equity Rate Sheets
USA 829 Rate Sheets for Theatre Designers (USA is the design union)
Good Analysis of Non-Profit Broadway by Rob Meiksins
Azuka Theatre - Philadelphia
Theatre MU - Minneapolis
Ryan Guzzo Purcell
Artistic Director | The Williams Project
Ryan Guzzo Purcell is the Artistic Director of The Williams Project, for which he has directed Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending and The Glass Menagerie, James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie, Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding, and Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day. From 2013 to 2015, he served as the Associate Artistic Director of Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where he has directed Mfoniso Udofia's Sojourners, Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, and the world premiere of Christina Anderson’s pen/man/ship. Other directing work has been seen at Intiman Theatre, The Hangar Theater, LaMaMa ETC, Brown Playwrights Rep, The National New Play Network Showcase, The Village Gate, The Olney Theatre Center, FringeNYC, and the Kennedy Center as part of the American College Theatre Festival. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a Princess Grace Award winner, and a Drama League Directing Fellow. He holds an MFA in directing from Brown University/Trinity Rep and a BFA from Boston University in Theatre Studies.
