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...there so little literary representation of minorities? As Fortenberry indicates, the assumption is that works by minority playwrights will be chosen by minority directors. Max-Joseph Montel '01, director of Women Beware Women opines: "As a director at Harvard with a limited number of shows I'll have time to direct, I choose plays that are worth it to me. I don't particularly look for diversity either in a play's potential for it or in the casting of it, but as a rule, I leave myself open to it." Perhaps it is that noncommittal stance that discourages many...
...What barriers do minority performers face inside the audition? Some directors note that they let their vision of a particular character be shaped by the actors who come to audition. "I actually had a slight bias toward a diverse cast," says director Dan Berwick '01. "The main character in Jesus Christ Superstar is a mob of people, and I wanted people who looked different from each other." Fortenberry notes her own decision to cast an African-American woman in a part written for a Jewish woman. "She was the best person," she says. "I decided to be race-blind...
...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...
...Everything will get more expensive, because women's papers are gaining in value," says Jane S. Knowles, acting director of the Schlesinger. "What we would have paid for a whole collection 20 years ago, we would pay for a single item today...
...instance, the Institute could adopt the Public Policy Center's focus on "work, family and the community," which has been the center's theme for the past five years, Director Paula Rayman says...