Celebrating a #FirstDayOfSchool win but also a #SanDiegoTheatre community loss. I was so lucky to have been able to help workshop this new TYA work #HOOPLA in 2021 with a rockin’ cast & now we’re finally bringing it to full life in 2022! Forever thankful for the team at @lajollaplayhouse 🎭 But today, I also woke up to a message asking if it was real that a theatre in San Diego just opened an all-white cast… to which the answer is, unfortunately, yes. It has been a dream to get to step away from the San Diego theatre community since we moved. To see the diverse works and artists working and thriving in other communities. People don’t believe our stories when we talk about the problematic things that have happened in San Diego. Alas, they’re all true. We need to do better. We need to produce more equitable, inclusive, and diverse works- otherwise our art form will die. We need to stop catering towards one audience demographic- we need to have our stages represent our world if we to continue to have artists interested. WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY in producing trauma-informed work that creates SAFE environments for all artists to work. How? Hire consultants. LISTEN to the community members speaking out. These call outs are more than just angry rants. Our lives as artists depend on it. Thank you for coming to talk. DISCUSS. (at La Jolla Playhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2Yv6fpgfy/?utm_medium=tumblr
