Diversity and Inclusion how wonderful it would be if those two things went hand in hand. If they were simply how things are. In the past six years we have found we are one of the few groups actively working with and for the disabled artist and audience, as well as for the mixed ethnic and racial community. It has been a huge surprise in New York City to find we were the only company providing regularly interpreted work into American Sign Language (ASL). We have actively sought out artists and designers and advocated for their continued work, educated theater owners and renters, spoken on panels, written for papers hoping to be a leader at the forefront of a new reality in diverse and inclusive working conditions.
We want what we do to reflect the world around us in New York City. We want all casts to be as varied as the people we see on the street each day. And when the artists do a show they should be impacted and changed the show should be one that years later when many others have blended together in their brain, the one or more they did with us stick out because maybe they worked opposite a deaf or hard of hearing actor or designed a set even though they are in a wheelchair, or played a legendarily white role even though they are Hispanic or Black or simply that they played so frighteningly against type that they never thought they could do it.