Word: colors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assumption of a white audience doesn't necessarily preclude minority participation in theater. For Marcus Stern, a Harvard lecturer and frequent director at the American Repertory Theater, he would be "hard-pressed to believe there is almost any script that can't be casted color-blind. As soon as you start making racial lines in your work, your work becomes half of what it could be. That's true of any field...
...Justin Krebs '00, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, has long been attuned to the problem of minority representation in theater. "Harvard puts high priority on racial and ethnic diversity, and our organization lags behind," he explains. On the subject of color-blind casting, "part of the board thinks it's not important enough to mention, and the other part thinks it's so obvious that it doesn't need to be mentioned." What will it take to make people of color a greater presence in Harvard's dramatic mind...
...Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts '00, herself a minority playwright, warns against assuming that dramatic success can only be found in the dramatic mainstream. "I'm not really sure where I stand on things like color-blind casting. It seems like it all ends up in tokenism. When it comes right down to it, the lack of minority roles isn't going to change unless minority writers and directors create them. I am not so disturbed by having to do my own thing. I don't mind working outside of institutions. How terribly backwards...
...Actually, this is a really pretty color," she says, interest piqued. "I might have to rob my own stock...
Haynie was intrigued, especially when she discovered the company carried makeup shades for women of color--something she hadn't been aware...