And Toto Too Theatre Company

And Toto too Theatre Company is a nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) theatre company whose focus is on promoting women in the arts, with an emphasis on producing plays by women playwrights.

nationally, only about 1 in 5 of the plays presented at regional stages are authored by women...

– Bob Mondello, All Things Considered, NPR, March 10 2005

And Toto Too deserves acknowledging. With its first production, it promises to have a huge impact on the theatre community.

– Holly Bartges
coloradobackstage.com

Lots of women don't like to use the F-word in public: "feminist". But when we get together and speak among ourselves, every woman playwright I've ever met, from Juneau to Jakarta, admits to one truth: it's tougher for us to get plays onto the stage.

– Linda Eisenstein, playwright

With more people going to the theater each year, there is an increasing need to satisfy what Margo Jones terms the 'demand for more human material,' and that increase suggests opportunities for diversity. Finally, it was Virginia Valian, one of the few non-theatre participants, who noted what we in the field may sometimes forget: It is the unique creativity of the medium itself that offers the best hope for change. She explained, 'The theatre has a way of making people think about issues of sex, ethnicity and age that isn't possible elsewhere.'

– New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Program
Report on the Status of Women: A Limited Engagement?