Press for Slut: The Play

TIME Magazine

“Monica Lewinsky and Why the Word 'Slut' Is Still So Potent”

“History met the present recently at a Manhattan performance of a play called SLUT, where Monica Lewinsky watched the story of a teen girl who is assaulted, reports it, and is slut-shamed by her peers. I sat next to Lewinsky as she watched the drama play out. At the end, ​she stood up, surveyed the young faces in the audience, and spoke​: ​’Thank you,​’ she ​told the crowd, ‘for standing up against the sexual scapegoating of women and girls.’"

BUST Magazine

“Teen "SLUT" Speaks Out In New Play (And You're Gonna Wanna Hear It)”

“It’s time that someone tells the world to STOP blaming young women for some of the most disgusting crimes committed against them, and I could not think of a better group of girls to do just that. From the mouths of teen girls comes the disturbing yet important and ultimately empowering battle cry, and I could not be more proud to live in a world where it seems young women are finally being listened to.”

The Cut

“Round Table: Teen SLUT Stars on Sex, Booze, and Catcalls”

“Eleven teenage girls from some of New York City’s most prestigious schools sat in a circle one recent Sunday afternoon, doodling on their sneakers as Starbucks iced coffees melted by their sides. One of the young women studies cello at Juilliard; others have been directed by Woody Allen and Eve Ensler. Asked if they have ever been called a “slut” before, all but three raise their hands.”

Teen Vogue

“Teen Girls Take a Stand Against Slut Shaming: What It Is, and Why You Should Care”

“Girls have been the victims of the trend, and girls have sometimes even been the perpetrators, but now girls are leading the charge to stop slut shaming for good. At the recent New York International Fringe Festival, a group of all-female high schoolers made waves with an original production called Slut."

The New Yorker

“Slut: An activist theatre company looks at the sexual politics of teen-agers.”

“In 2007, the theatre artists and activists Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney founded the Arts Effect All-Girl Theatre Company. There, the directors provided a forum for teen-age girls, where they could make socially relevant art.”

MTV News

“THESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE TALKING ABOUT SLUT SHAMING AND RAPE CULTURE IN A WHOLE NEW WAY”

Read more to see the full interview with Meg McInerney, Katie Cappiello, Amari Rose Leigh, and Winnifred Bonjean Alpart.

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Press for A Day In The Life

New York State Anti Trafficking Coalition

“The Arts Effect Reveals Truth about Youth Domestic Trafficking”

“Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney recently developed Project Impact, a leadership-through-storytelling theater arts program for youth sex trafficking survivors, and Generation FREE (devised in collaboration with The Somaly Mam Foundation, Equality Now, and NOW-NYC), an anti-trafficking activism and community-building workshop for NYC teens. The Arts Effect’s latest play A Day in the Life provided inspiration for the Not So Super campaign and is currently being performed throughout the tri-state area.’"

Huffington Post

“When Girls Are Part of the Solution Everyone Benefits”

“It’s dark outside, 20 degrees, and we’ve taken to Super Bowl Boulevard in NYC with a team of teen girls who are passionate about ending modern day slavery. They’ve traded their usual homework-filled Thursday night for hours of in-the-trenches advocacy. Bundled in Uggs and puffy coats, the girls walk arm-in-arm, encouraging each other with every step, as they engage passers-by with trafficking facts and dispense information on commercial sexual exploitation. “

Thompson Reuters

“Girls for sale: ‘A Day in the Life’”

“A play performed by teenage girls reveals the often overlooked truth about domestic sex-trafficking: it can happen to anyone, anywhere. A diverse, fresh-faced group, the 20 American girls standing still and expressionless on stage create a striking opening tableau. Between the ages of 13 and 17, they could be anyone’s daughter or sister or cousin - or any sex trafficker’s prey. Their voices ring out, one after another, in a litany of the ways in which girls become ensnared in youth sex trafficking.”

Press for facebook me

Playbill

“Arts Effect's facebook me, Revealing the Secret Lives of Teens Online, Will Play NYC's DR2 Theatre”

“In September 2010, the Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company began crafting facebook me. For nine months, under the guidance of company directors Cappiello and McInerney, the 15 members of the all-girl ensemble attended weekly creative sessions to create facebook me through a combination of debate and discussion, improvisation, reflective writing and character building."

Broadway World

“ The Arts Effect All-Girl Theatre Co Presents facebook me”

“Six million girls ages 13-15 are on Facebook leaving countless adults to ponder what it would be like to come of age in the iGeneration. facebook me is a shockingly real look into the lives of ten teen girls as they attempt to navigate the excitement and embarrassment, the shame and the success of their adolescence online...where status is so much more than an update.”

The Lo-Down

“It’s 10 p.m.: Do You Know Where Your Daughter Is? Facebook Me Does”

“If you’re a teenage girl the Facebook thing starts innocently enough with something like this: Hey… there’s this party tonight…and then a ‘hook-up’ gone wrong, or a relationship request (and too much stress!!), an unwanted touch, pressure to get high, parents on your back, comments on your a$$, sexuality mixed-up, our friendship lost, a body not worth the cost…and it’s only 5:30! So, ‘Can you just Facebook me…?’”

Press for Keep Your Eyes Open

Time Out NY

“4 Stars! Like The Vagina Monologues for tweens, Keep Your Eyes Open is a smart, sassy and sophisticated look at how it feels to be a girl.”

The Village Voice

“These sparkling young ones provide moments of sheer, hilarious glee. These girls are barely a decade old, and it's soul-crushing to be reminded that the full burden of Hilton-Richie-Spears-dom is being allowed to fall on their tiny shoulders. But the kids are coping well, and they've pulled an energetic show about female preadolescent hell from their own small wells of angst.”

SLATE

“As DoubleX begins to create its new website identity, I’d like to shine the spotlight on the activities of the next generation of women, the so-called fourth wave of feminists, as today’s teens and tweens have been labeled.”