Broadway News: Broadway Stage Managers See Strides in Diversity
December 22, 2021
Check out this article from Broadway News by Caitlin Huston that discusses how Broadway & Beyond: Access for Stage Managers of Color has helped place 30 stage managers of color in jobs across the country, including 11 group members who booked a job on Broadway this season! A small excerpt can be read below. Click here to read the full article.
"When stage managers Lisa Dawn Cave and Beverly Jenkins held the first Broadway & Beyond event last December, their goal was to make general managers and directors aware of the number of diverse candidates ready to take on new work.
One year later, Broadway & Beyond has helped place 30 stage managers of color in jobs across the country, including 11 group members who booked a job on Broadway this season. The organization is one of several pushing to make the theater industry more diverse and inclusive, in a move that Cave and Jenkins say is beginning to bear fruit."