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2020 was a wack year for all of us. On top of a pandemic sweeping the globe, the United States was finally forced to reckon with the racism entrenched in its heritage, ignited on May 25, 2020 with the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police. Rocked by a firestorm of protests, and with little entertainment or escape due to Covid-safety protocols, a group of theatre designers, directors, actors, managers and technicians, produced an open letter titled ‘We See You White American Theatre’, and laid it square in the public eye. The letter detailed the many transgressions accumulated toward theatre-makers identifying as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, by the predominantly white American theatre in the United States, and has reverberated through management structures, teaching institutions and theatre producing organizations at all levels prompting a new, thorough, unavoidable level of public conversation and accountability. Joining Alan to discuss these topics is award-winning Scenic & Costume designer and activist Clint Ramos, Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor Adjunct in Theater Management for Yale School of Drama and General Manager of Yale Repertory Theatre Kelvin Dinkins, Jr, and Managing Director of the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University Al Heartley.
We See You White American Theatre
https://www.weseeyouwat.com/
We Don’t Want Your Statements
https://howlround.com/we-dont-want-your-statements-american-theatre
Broadway League Pledges Change Amid National Uproar Over Racism
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/theater/broadway-league-racial-injustice.html?searchResultPosition=6
Theatre Artists of Color Enumerate Demands for Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/theater/we-see-you-theater-demands.html
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2020 was a wack year for all of us. On top of a pandemic sweeping the globe, the United States was finally forced to reckon with the racism entrenched in its heritage, ignited on May 25, 2020 with the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police. Rocked by a firestorm of protests, and with little entertainment or escape due to Covid-safety protocols, a group of theatre designers, directors, actors, managers and technicians, produced an open letter titled ‘We See You White American Theatre’, and laid it square in the public eye. The letter detailed the many transgressions accumulated toward theatre-makers identifying as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, by the predominantly white American theatre in the United States, and has reverberated through management structures, teaching institutions and theatre producing organizations at all levels prompting a new, thorough, unavoidable level of public conversation and accountability. Joining Alan to discuss these topics is award-winning Scenic & Costume designer and activist Clint Ramos, Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor Adjunct in Theater Management for Yale School of Drama and General Manager of Yale Repertory Theatre Kelvin Dinkins, Jr, and Managing Director of the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University Al Heartley.
We See You White American Theatre
https://www.weseeyouwat.com/
We Don’t Want Your Statements
https://howlround.com/we-dont-want-your-statements-american-theatre
Broadway League Pledges Change Amid National Uproar Over Racism
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/theater/broadway-league-racial-injustice.html?searchResultPosition=6
Theatre Artists of Color Enumerate Demands for Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/theater/we-see-you-theater-demands.html
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