Identity-Conscious Casting Moving Beyond Color-Blind and Color-Conscious Casting

02 February 2021 ESSAY

BY LAVINA JADHWANI

VICTOR VAZQUEZ

In 2014, Lavina Jadhwani, a text-based director and adaptor in Chicago, wrote a piece for HowlRound about color-conscious casting after directing a production of Duchess of Malfi. In the years since, Lavina has shifted to using the term “identity-conscious casting,” because she believes identity contains multitudes and race is just one part of that. In this conversation…

https://howlround.com/identity-conscious-casting

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