REGION VII - Festival 50
There will be examination of resources: What do individual theatre departments have or do not have in achieving some of the principals and directives in the Kennedy Center Diversity and Inclusion Statement? This may include examining faculty roles and recruitment, staff, curriculum, budget, casting, creating or producing new work; non-biased respondent training, guest artists and evaluating artistic processes.
How to avoid cultural appropriation in season selection and casting by examining the ways that under-represented groups are portrayed onstage, and finding was to oppose acts of cultural appropriation and character depictions that deepen existing cultural divides.