June 2022
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Madrona woman finds her voice by amplifying others’ with The Shattered Glass Project
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By Laura Marie Rivera Contributing writer
Rebecca O’Neil, a longtime Madrona resident, was looking for ways to connect with and amplify other women’s voices and talents when she created The Shattered Glass Project as a graduate school project. The program grew out of O’Neil’s desire to create opportunities in theater for women and other voices marginalized because of sex or gender and tell those untold stories in the Seattle area. “I wanted a place that would give women and nonbinary folks the opportunity to work as actors, directors, playwrights and producers,” O’Neil said. During her journey, she said she has learned a lot more about the benefits of diversity and “how heterogenous teams achieve more than non-heterogenous teams. “When we work with a group that is not the same as we are, we can achieve more and be more creative,” O’Neil said. The Shattered Glass Project came together while she was working toward her arts leadership master’s degree at Seattle University. The graduate program brings together leaders from across the arts communities with the goal of empowering a new wave of arts professionals. It teaches business, management and community engagement skills, while incorporating social justice into all it does. O’Neil started the master’s program in 2017 while she was working at Seattle University’s Law School doing continuing education and events management. Her cohort was larger than usual, but she said members “really liked each other,” and they all had their “little quirks.” “I knew from the beginning that I wanted to start a theater company that would feature women and especially older women,” O’Neil said. O’Neil, a Pacific Northwest native who studied drama at Mills College and in England for a year, has been acting semiprofessionally for years. She knows, however, that no matter how good an actor is or how great their training, only so many roles are created for women, and even less for women of a certain age.
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Photo by Laura Marie Rivera The Shattered Glass Project creator Rebecca O’Neil sits outside the Madrona library last month. O’Neil created the TSGP to connect with and amplify voices marginalized by sex and gender in theater.
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