| ‘We failed’: Amid accusations of racism, calls for resignations, Philly theater organization cancels season | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 08:56 am EDT 07/21/20 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 08:55 am EDT 07/21/20 | |
| In reply to: Change.org Petition detailing some of the behavior and abuses - Singapore/Fling 01:32 pm EDT 07/20/20 | |
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| Posted in part because of the lengthy and thoughtful discussions here about the Pinkins Medium piece. Not unrelated. “We allowed the comforts of familiarity to stall our progress toward making PlayPenn’s administration and board more welcome to different voices, to LGBTQ+ people, to people of color. Our shared culture, whiteness, history, and vernacular, comfortable to us all, lulled us into inaction,” the letter says. “We allowed this year’s Conference playwright selection not to adequately represent the diversity of the field. We made bad judgements in equitable promotion, in reader diversity, in the curatorial selection of our playwrights.” Among the transgressions Meshejian addressed was a recent Metro Philly article about this year’s conference that overwhelmingly featured pictures of Black actors and directors, even though only one Black playwright was expected to participate. (The online story has since been updated with different pictures.) “We didn’t realize what impact it would have,” Meshejian wrote, “because we have been largely blind to those concerns.” |
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