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Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso and Rachelle Fender, two women from different paths who were inspired by their experiences and shared core values, united to create Next Table Entertainment & Media. With Rachelle’s previous work as a high-net-worth fundraiser and International Humanitarian who helped girls’ and women’s stories be told, she had a microphone. With Jennifer’s work as a Tony & Emmy award-winning Producer, they realized that they could plug that microphone into the largest amphitheater in the world – entertainment and media.
MEET THE TEAM
A PROBLEM WORTH SOLVING
Next Table Entertainment & Media is a female-founded and led company that is creating globally impactful, multi-platform projects in television, film, theatre, books, and music, with the mission of building a bigger table for the underrepresented voices of all women, as well as male and non-binary allies, to be seen, heard and supported.
Through our multi-platform expertise, we will tell stories that transform the personal into the universal, using the platform that best serves each project and will spotlight talent of all ages, races, genders, cultures and abilities.
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Do you want to support our mission? We welcome allies and supporters who share our vision of amplifying diverse voices in entertainment. While we can’t take unsolicited material, we welcome the chance to meet with collaborators for future development.
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By The Numbers
In 2023, women accounted for 27% of the nominees for the main non-acting categories at the Academy Awards, down from 32% a year earlier.
Not a single woman was nominated for an Oscar in the Directing (Best Director) category in 2023.
Only two women were among the best-paid actors worldwide as of August 2021.
The roster of best-paid actors lacks cultural and intergenerational diversity and representation of more voices.
A 2022 report found that 38.6% of lead actors in films in the United States that year were female. A decade earlier, the share stood at 25.6%.
Throughout the second half of the 2010s, not more than 30% of Academy Award-winning movies had a female lead actor.
The latest reports on gender diversity among U.S. movie directors revealed that women made up less than 22% of all directors in the country in 2021.
No women are featured among the 20 highest-grossing directors worldwide.
The percentage of women directing top-grossing films even declined in 2021 after reaching historic highs in 2020.
In 2019, 10.6% of film directors in Hollywood were women, marking a huge jump from the 4.5% reported in the previous year.
In 2008, 8% of directors in the U.S. movie industry were female, but in 2013 and 2014 the share dropped to below two.
In 2022, 27% of movie writers in the United States were women - a slight decrease in comparison to the previous year.
The share of female film directors in the U.S. decreased in 2022 compared to the previous year.
Women accounted for one-third of all persons eligible to vote for the Oscars in 2022.
In 2022, less than 30% of the nominees for non-acting categories at the Academy Awards were female.
The distribution of employees in the broadcasting industry in the United States in 2022, by gender are 61.2% Men, 38.8% Women.
Share of female employees in behind-the-scenes jobs on broadcast network programs in the US in the 2021-22 season, by role: Writers – 36%, Executive Producers – 29%, Creators – 29%, Editors – 23%, Directors – 18%, Directors of Photography – 16%
Between 1980 and 2022, there have been 11 female nominees and 208 male nominees for the Golden Globe Best Director Award.
In the 2017-2018 season, 25.4% of episodic TV directors on broadcast, cable and streaming services were female, up from 14.6% between 2012 and 2013.
92% of the winners of the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical between 1982-2015 were male.
Over the last five years, only 28% of commercial Broadway plays or musicals had women lead producers.
As of 2020 on Broadway, women account for 17% of behind-the-scenes talent.
As of 2022, musical theatre is curiously male-dominated – male musical theatre writers outnumber women nine to one in the UK
As of 2022, only 13% of Broadway shows are written by women, with non-binary writers and composers so underrepresented that they are statistically insignificant.
As of 2018, plays on Broadway authored by men constitute 57% of all productions, down from 62% last year.
As of 2018, plays by women comprise 30%, up from last year's 26 (plays co-written by men and women take up the slack, this year comprising 13%).