Why I Use Female Protagonists

In my stories and scripts, I tend to use female protagonists, for a few reasons.

1) Most actors are female.
2) Most people reading scripts for theaters are female.
3) Most theater-goers are female.

I found another reason in Jordan and Wilner (2009):
"There's ample evidence that both award committee and the ticket buying public (by every estimate at least 60% female) find female characters extremely likable, whether written by men or women."


References

Wilner, S. & Jordan, J. (2009). Discrimination & the female playwright. The Dramatist Sept/Oct 46--51.

Comments

Jim Davies said…
new link: http://www.giarts.org/sites/default/files/conference_websites/2009/docs/JordanWilner2009.pdf

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