To create fair and equitable pricing, Mary C. Parker offers tiered pricing for her public playshops. The rates are comparable to fees charged by other Improv teachers and Applied Improvisation practitioners who deliver workshops independent of theaters or other operating entities like Erica Towe, Shannon Stott, Sloane Miller, and Stephen Davidson. This revenue generated from the rates below support Mary’s wages, benefits, operating costs, and contract hires. The tiered system is informed by Aorta Collective and through conversations in Improv Discussion and Resources. It is our intention in being transparent in pricing that this can serve as a first step to creating a market rate for this type of work.

About Our Rates

Rates included on this page are for public playshop offerings. If you are seeking rates for additional services Mary offers for Corporate, DEI Consulting, or Coaching visit, the “Work with Mary” page for services and fees rate sheet found here. The tiered scale is an intentional and transparent effort to distribute resources equitable among individuals. You can choose which rate you want to pay. Paying at the higher end of the scale allows Mary to make a living and feeds into a gift economy to afford access to those who may need it.

Global Solidarity

This is for those who exchange rates make international classes impossible. This rate allows you to invest in the work without absorbing higher international exchange fees.

Sustain

This rate is for those early in their career and those who may have to pick and choose their pleasures. If you wanted, one pleasure you can afford is to spend money on a takeaway or eat in a restaurant once a week.

Full Cost

This is for those who can easily afford the playshop. At the end of the month, you will have some savings and disposable income to spend. This rate reflects the value of delivering this work for the timeframe.

Redistribution

This is for those who have more than enough resources and will not notice that the money is gone. This rate includes redistribution into a gift economy that provides a Sustain ticket for someone else.

What Your Fees Support

By supporting Mary’s work you are investing in a black and woman-owned business. Mary has been delivering training, consulting, coaching, and facilitation work that for almost 15 years. Her revenue has been supported primarily by work with private clients and work for hire from organizations. In the past, Mary would only have public offerings of her work through conferences or annual events hosted by other organizations. Appearances at these events often did not sustain her cost of living since the work was often unpaid and therefore not sustainable long-term. In recent years Mary has been working to make her work more consistently available and accessible to the public. The sustainability of Mary’s public offerings is based on the gift economy provided through participants’ fees. Mary accepts donations for her work which go towards providing barrier-free participation to Black, Indigenous, People of Color in the form of scholarships.

Let’s Play! our current public offers: