![]() ![]() It’s to create theater that challenges stereotypes, advance and complicate the conversation about feminism, and expand perceptions of what it means to be a woman. JG: The mission of The Hearth is to make room for the next generation of female artists in the landscape of the American theater. ![]() We believe that what we see on stage can affect how we interact with the world, so we also believe that how we represent women and make room for them has the power to further the conversation about feminism, and that we can contribute to a very important fight for greater equality. We hire women, we tell their stories, we cast them in roles that are active and meaty and diverse. We started The Hearth to address and confront discrimination and inequality head-on. They do things that, when we see them on stage or on screen, we often call "unlikeable." Julia and I are committed to producing theater that doesn't shy away from those things. They are brave and they are unapologetically themselves. During rehearsals for their inaugural production FOR A NNIE by Beth Hyland, the artistic directors caught up with us about personal style and creating socially conscious work.įrom right: Emma in the Jessica Dress and Julia in the Suzanne TopĮM: The girls and women I know are ambitious, complex, and sometimes make mistakes. This summer, Julia Greer and Emma Miller founded The Hearth, a company dedicated to telling the stories of women. ![]()
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