Marking 1 Year of the BIPOC Director Database
Kareem Fahmy launched a database to match diverse directors with theatres who were hiring, and while it has made a difference, there’s still a need for it.
Category Archives: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Daveed Diggs (center) as Thomas Jefferson in “Hamilton.” (Photo by Joan Marcus)
This column is designed to feature voices and issues that are underrepresented in the American theatre. Please send ideas and tips to American Theatre magazine at at@tcg.org.
The Alchemy of Funding Theatres of Color
A new study from SMU DataArts found the metrics of success for smaller, community-oriented theatres to be both similar and different from their larger peers.
Cultural Staying Power
How 2 arts organizations of color, Apollo Theater and Cultural Odyssey, have persevered despite funding disparities and other challenges.
Can Theatres of Color Get Support Without Strings or Hurdles?
TCG’s THRIVE! regranting program, led by the needs and concerns of BIPOC artists and leaders, aims to rewrite the theatre funding process.
Gennean Scott: Broadway Can and Will Change
For the Broadway League’s first director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, action is going to be as important as words.
Facing Our Failure: The Power of Acknowledging Racism Within the American Theatre
Some Washington, D.C., theatre leaders gathered last month to discuss their anti-racism work, both individually and collectively.
How to Be an Antiracist Theatremaker
Five producers gather to talk about what they do and the power they hold to make change.
Support for Latinidad Onstage: A Lifelong, Not a Month-Long, Job
For Hispanic Heritage Month, four Latinx/Latine play festival producers talk about their vision for a more expansive and inclusive American theatre.
Theatres of Color: How Did They Fare in the Past 18 Months?
The pandemic brought deep-seated disparities to light, but has the theatre field really reckoned with them?
Touch the Wound, But Don’t Live There
Why we need resilience services as much as we need fight choreography.
