A STATEMENT FROM THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING
“I’m grateful to AAPAC for their continued partnership in collecting, analyzing, and presenting the data in this essential annual report — the only of its kind. Understanding this information is an essential first step in achieving our shared goal of a fairer and more inclusive theater ecology.
With the help of the Wing’s Diversity Committee, led by our chair David Henry Hwang, this report has been expanded to include playwrights, composers, lyricists, and directors, thus providing a much more expansive view of the state of our community vis-à-vis fair representation.
This issue is central to the Wing’s mission, and we look forward to our continued work with the theater community in order to make lasting progress across our industry, on stage and off."
-Heather Hitchens, CEO & President
Earlier today, the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC) released its annual report, “Ethnic Representation on New York City Stages,” detailing the ethnic distribution of actors hired in the 2016-17 theater season on Broadway and at the top eighteen not-for-profit theater companies in New York City, the only publicly available report of its kind. The full report is available for download on the AAPAC website: www.aapacnyc.org |
