What Can an EDI Consultant Do for a Play?
When SpeakEasy Stage Company puts on plays featuring cross-cultural currents and racial conflicts, Kira Troilo’s consulting work proves crucial.
All Stories About equity diversity and inclusion
OSF Promotes Anyania Muse to Managing Director
After a year as director of the theatre’s director of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA), she will move up to both oversee a wider variety of operations and to infuse IDEA values throughout the organization.
Dramatists Guild Announces First Inclusion Rider
Guild writers may now use the rider to encourage equitable and inclusive hiring practices in their plays or musicals.
Overworked, Underpaid, Unheard: Chicago Theatre Freelancers Speak Out
Behind and beyond recent reckonings at the city’s theatres are countless tales of exploitation, harm, and silencing—but it’s not too late for change.
Does Your Arts Organization Deserve to Come Back?
If you haven’t committed to dismantling racism and ending harassment, don’t rush to reopen your doors.
What Stacey Abrams Can Teach Us About Changing Our Theatres
She used her anger at a system that betrayed its ideals as fuel to organize against it. We can and should do the same.
Let’s Be Real: These Programs Won’t End Racism at Your Theatre
Ending white supremacy at your institution requires an organization-wide commitment to change in both culture and policy.
In the Boardroom Where It Happens
Diversifying programming and leadership won’t be enough if our boards remain white and privileged.
Tammy Belton-Davis on Theatre’s Business—and Moral—Imperatives
The communications exec, who’s working with Milwaukee Rep for 10 months on EDI, talks about building relationships and engaging diverse communities.
Tammy Belton-Davis to Join Milwaukee Rep as Chief Diversity Officer
The founder and principal of Athena Communications will spend a 10-month appointment focusing on the theatre’s equity, diversity, and inclusion goals.
