Financial gifts from Tonya Pinkins and Stefaniyemiya Ingram paved the way for 13 additional scholarships to be awarded beyond the first-, second-, and third-place winners this year.
In June, the Off-Off-Broadway theatre said it would commit to paying its artists for future programming. Now, it’s unclear what that programming might be.
Since its establishment in June, the organization established by Black theatre artists like Phylicia Rashad, Billy Porter, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Allyson Tucker, and more, has gotten to work.
Teaming up with Questlove, Tony Cornelius,Anthony E. Zuiker, Live Nation’s Shawn Gee, and his co-lead producers Matthew Weaver and Jeffrey Tick, this producer brings Soul Train to Broadway.
The producer had four productions as part of the announced 2019–2020 season including the Jake Gyllenhaal-Tom Sturridge Tony nominee Sea Wall/A Life and fellow Tony-nominated play The Sound Inside.
If we want more diverse stories, more representative casting, more inclusive staffs, it begins with producers. We illuminate the names behind the marquee lights working to change theatre from the inside.
Looking at works on Broadway and at major Off-Broadway companies, 38.5 percent of roles were filled by non-white performers, indicating limited progress.
.jpg)
