This year's Getting Played Equity Award winner is the Coalition of Black Women Professional Theatre Makers in the Bay Area, California. In 2017, Marin Theatre Company's production of “Thomas & Sally” offended with its "irresponsible, deeply harmful project with no accountability to black women and girls." The Coalition organized a collective response and Call To Action for MTC and for our National Theatre Community as consequence of "many years of watching our stories be misrepresented, censored, appropriated, and exploited. People of color across the country continue to face these issues and we recognize our allied communities in this intersectional struggle for equity and representation on stage, particularly when these representations have real world consequences." The Coalition's activism continues to resonate as an example of what the Getting Played Equity Award strives to recognize: courage to advance Industry equity through pivotal actions typically less visible and celebrated but nevertheless foundational to positive change.

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For more information about the Coalition: https://blackwomenbayareatheatre.wordpress.com/ 

 

More information about past winners at tinyurl.com/GettingPlayedSymposium