Word: hrdc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case of any wrongdoing during Common Casting, it is the HRDC's role to adjudicate disputes, a third role unmentioned by Uphoff. It is in this capacity that the board has faced controversy and censure by some in the theater community...
During the fall season, Marc Jones asked the HRDC board to intervene in casting for the show Reproducing GeorgiaJones contends that Common Casting rule was broken when Director Dvora Inwood and Producer Hubert Lin retracted a previous offer for the male lead part...
Upon Jones' request, the HRDC executive board looked into the matter. After separately meeting with the director, producer's and actor to hear their version of events, the board decided that the director and producer's actions constituted an infringement of casting policy. Consequently, both Inwood and Lin have been banned by the board from putting on shows next semester at the Loeb's Mainstage or Experimental theaters, the two most coveted and prestigious locations to have an HRDC show...
Inwood also declared that there was no appeals process available to her. The bottom line: a small group of undergraduates, the HRDC board, controls her entire theater career at Harvard. Since Inwood wanted to continue to participate in Harvard theater, she did not protest the decision, In her words, "I was new, and I didn't want to make waves...
...mind, these mix-ups "shouldn't happen in HRDC." And unlike Inwood, Jones does not feel that either his career or his reputation has been adversely affected by the incident...