Question 1

What is the Glass Ceiling Series Free Rights Initiative?

Accepted Answer

The Glass Ceiling Series Free Rights Initiative is a project where Fox & Dog will make the production rights free for the current Glass Ceiling Series plays to any professional, non-professional, and university theaters outside of the Philadelphia region.

Question 2

What is the Glass Ceiling Series?

Accepted Answer

The Glass Ceiling Series is an ongoing collection of plays about strong, complex womxn finding success in industries typically dominated by men.

Question 3

What are the plays in the Glass Ceiling Series?

Accepted Answer

D-Pad - a game developer in the process of making her first self-produced video game. Go Ahead - a middle school history teacher is chosen for a mission to Mars. Watch Me Jump - a WNBA all-star deals with a potentially career-defining scandal.

Question 4

Why is Fox & Dog releasing the rights to the Glass Ceiling Series for free?

Accepted Answer

Fox & Dog is releasing the production rights for free as an incentive to get theaters to hire more womxn in their season, both on-stage and behind the scenes. By producing one or more of the plays in the Glass Ceiling Series, the participating theaters will have the opportunity to allocate the part of their operating budget normally reserved for production rights into paying a majority womxn creative team, allowing the plays to be interpreted from a femme perspective.

Question 5

How do you define “womxn”?

Accepted Answer

We define “womxn” as cisgendered women, trans*, and non-binary people.

Question 6

What is the character breakdown and running time of the plays?

Accepted Answer

D-Pad features four characters (two womxn, two men) and has an estimated running time of 90 minutes. Go Ahead features three characters (two womxn, one man) and has an estimated running time of 100 minutes. Watch Me Jump features five characters (four womxn, one man) and has an estimated running time of 75 minutes. Apart from the character Audra Bee Mills in Watch Me Jump, all of the characters can be played by someone of any race, and intersectionality is encouraged when considering casting choices.

Question 7

What requirements does a theater need to have in order to produce these plays?

Accepted Answer

If a theater wishes to produce one or multiple of the plays in the Glass Ceiling Series, theywill have to agree to the following requirements:      • The theater is required to hire a 75% majority womxn production and creative team.• No production can be billed as a premiere of any kind, whether it be world premiere,              regional premiere, or otherwise.• The theater will credit the productions as “written by Jeremy Gable”, but any bios or              interviews for any supplemental material will be about Fox & Dog as a company and              not Jeremy Gable as a playwright.• Opening night of the production(s) will be required to happen on or before December            31, 2021. If a theater is not able to meet all of these requirements, they will have to pay Fox & Dog forproduction rights.

Question 8

Why is it a requirement to have a majority womxn production and creative team?

Accepted Answer

We believe it is disingenuous to produce these plays, all centered around strong womxn, if those productions are going to run by a majority male creative and production team. Fox & Dog requires the production to have a 75% womxn creative team to champion creative leadership from womxn, both onstage and behind the scenes.

Question 9

Why are theaters in the Philadelphia region excluded from participating in this  initiative?

Accepted Answer

These plays were written and workshopped in Philadelphia. Fox & Dog is interested in opening up the plays to be interpreted by people in many different cities, with the hope that after the Initiative has ended, the plays can return to Philadelphia with hometown collaborators. If any Philadelphia producers are interested in participating in the Initiative, please send inquiries to WeAreFoxAndDog@gmail.com.

Question 10

What do you consider the Philadelphia region?

Accepted Answer

Any theater that is 50 miles from Philadelphia City Hall is considered as part of the Philadelphia region.

Question 11

Do the plays have to be theatre productions?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The rights for these plays are only available for theatrical productions. These stories cannot be adapted for any other medium such as film, radio, webseries, etc.

Question 12

Are high schools allowed to produce any of the plays in the Glass Ceiling Series?

Accepted Answer

As Fox & Dog is concerned about the adult content within the plays, production rights are currently not available to high schools.

Question 13

Are international rights available?

Accepted Answer

To inquire about international rights, please reach out to Fox & Dog. Please be aware that the plays are written in English, and translations in other languages are not currently available.

Question 14

Who is Fox & Dog?

Accepted Answer

Fox & Dog is a partnership between collaborators Brey Ann Barrett and Jeremy Gable.

Question 15

For any other questions, please reach out to us at WeAreFoxAndDog@gmail.com."

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