Stage manager Carmelita Becnel reflects on the need to support mothers, women of color, and stage managers as creative collaborators in the rehearsal room. “I have to fight for creative, collaborative recognition as a woman. I have to fight for it as a mother. And I also have to fight for it as a person…
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Skin Tone Formulas
Looking to match to a skin tone? Rit and Ben Nye have developed a library of color formulas for cotton and nylon to match most skin tones. In the guide there are tips for dying, powder to liquid conversion, scaling for dying, and both cotton and nylon formulas. All formulas were developed in partnership with…
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…
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The Unraveling of a Dream My life in the cast of Hamilton: An American Musical [TW: racism, mental illness, heterosexism, sexual assault, self-harm] I was an original cast member in the 1st National Tour of Hamilton: An American Musical (aka the Angelica Company). I have never been certain that I would share my experience, my realexperience, with the…
ANNALIESE M. BAKER 