Julie White (l) and Theresa Rebeck

I am so sick and tired of all the stories about how women compete against each other (lots of them bullshit designed, I believe, to keep women from working together) that it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate when we get a good, positive story about how women work together with much success.  In the NY Times this past weekend there was a great piece on the long-time friendship and collaboration between playwright Theresa Rebeck and actress Julie White.

“Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover,” the playwright Theresa Rebeck said with a laugh the other day.”

Although they are theatrical alter egos, they joke about their differences. Ms. Rebeck has a doctorate in English, while Ms. White just got her bachelor’s degree recently, about 25 years after dropping out of college to work. “She’ll be up in the middle of the night watching Chris Matthews,” Ms. White said of Ms. Rebeck, “and I’ll be up watching ‘The Dog Whisperer.’ ”

This story led me to try and think of some other female creative partnerships. I came up with producer Jan Chapman and director Jane Campion and director Deborah Warner and actress Fiona Shaw.

There have got to be many others. What other female creative partnerships are there? Let’s make a list.

One Writes, the Other Acts. Sparks Fly. (NY Times)

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