Broadway Women Celebrate New Holiday at Lincoln Center Library

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - March 25, 2009) - New York's League of Professional Theatre Women will host a panel of award-winning Broadway artists in honor of the second international SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day). The panelists will discuss "PERFORMANCE COLLABORATIONS: How Women Theater Artists Make It Happen" at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, 2009. Admission is free.

The League's panel is part of a worldwide SWAN Day movement that aims to increase visibility, funding, and employment for women artists. The panel will feature Robyn Goodman (producer of "In the Heights," winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, founder of Second Stage Theatre), costume designer Carrie Robbins (designer of over 30 Broadway shows including the original production of "Grease"), playwright/performer Lisa Kron (2 Tony nominations for her Broadway production of "Well"); director Leigh Silverman ("Well," "Beebo Brinker Chronicles"); Holly Hynes, costume designer for the New York City Ballet; and Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Director of Exhibitions for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Following the panel, the public is invited to tour the League's exhibition, "CURTAIN CALL: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance," on the first floor of the library in the Oenslager Gallery.

The range of events for SWAN Day 2009 is as diverse as the artists involved. In San Francisco there will be a four-day women's film festival; in Washington, D.C., an exhibit of Mary McFadden's fashion designs at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In New York City there will be 20 events including a showcase of women's short films organized by New York Women in Film and Television, the Lady Got Chops jazz series in Brooklyn, a carnival at the Women's Project, a discussion with playwrights Kia Corthron and Migdalia Cruz at Revolution Books, premieres at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, and dance events in Queens and the Bronx. Groups in the U.S., Kenya, Germany, Canada and Ghana are planning their second annual festivals, while new events will take place in Jamaica, Argentina, Israel, and China.

SWAN Day is a project of The Fund for Women Artists. For more information, please contact info@SwanDay.org or visit www.SwanDay.org or contact Eileen Koch at Eileen Koch and Company, 310.441.1000, Eileen@eileenkoch.com or www.eileenkoch.com.

Contact Information: Contact: Eileen Koch Eileen Koch and Company 310.441.1000 www.eileenkoch.com