The Lilly Awards Foundation INC

The Lilly Awards Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to celebrate the work of women in the theater and promote gender parity at all levels of theatrical production.Currently only 22% of the plays and musicals produced in America are written by women. We are eager to change the way decisions are made about production, by spreading the facts, like for example, that plays by women are as profitable as plays by men.In the Spring, we produce a boisterous awards ceremony honoring 12 women writers, composers, directors and designers. In the winter, we conduct a Spotlight Series highlighting the work of emerging women artists, and we produce our celebratory Cabaret gala fundraiser. We run a Family Friendly Summer Colony initiative, which allows women to take their children along to the prestigious summer writing programs which are so vital to getting their work into the pipeline for major production. We initiated and are continuing to carry out The Count, a national study that answers the question “Who is Being Produced in the American Theatre?" The Count has been a game-changer in the conversation about parity, and we are very proud of that ongoing effort, in a partnership with the Dramatists Guild.Our whole goal is to make sure that stories of and by women are heard on the American stage. If there is a way you can help, we would love that.