Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Stage Union Concedes Responsibility For Lack Of BIPOC Broadway Jobs
Deadline: Ten years ago, only two black stage directors – and no black choreographers – were hired on Broadway under the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society’s contract. During the last Broadway season, the union says, only one black director was hired under its Broadway contract, and no black choreographers.
'The Safe Way Forward’ Joint Report from the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, and Teamsters
IATSE Cares: In the next major step toward the resumption of film and television production, the Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and the Basic Crafts, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) today released “The Safe Way Forward,” a Multi-Union Report on Covid-19 Safety Guidelines. The Guidelines set forth a detailed set of science-based protocols serving as a path for Employers to uphold their responsibility of providing safe workplaces in a pre-vaccine, Covid-19 world. The Guidelines serve as an essential and necessary element of a return to work for the Unions and Guilds representing film and television casts and crews.
Going Broke in Hollywood: TV Assistants Reel From Pandemic Pay Cuts
Vanity Fair: “Isobbed on the phone with my showrunner—our pay was already too low.”
That’s a Hollywood assistant describing her reaction when her boss let her know that the studio was jeopardizing her income in ways she found “cruel.” This assistant, one of more than 20 sources that Vanity Fair interviewed for this story, is an LGBTQ woman of color who works in TV. She doesn’t blame the showrunner for the kind of reductions that assistants all over the industry have been forced to accept in the wake of the pandemic. But she and many of her peers are furious at the studios that employ them.
Language In Production
SoundGirls.org: Microaggression is a form of bias that can occur in everyday language, often subtle and said inadvertently. Language can be problematic when it’s a common phrase or saying and people avoid understanding its origins or implications. We use language to express ourselves, and even when we have the best intentions some phrases, wording, and terms, in general, are no longer applicable or widely accepted.
How Liberal Arts Theatre Programs Are Failing Their Students of Color
HowlRound Theatre Commons: Many liberal arts theatre programs have predominantly white faculties as well as declared majors. This homogeneity is often reflected in the syllabi and programming. Whenever the mainstage season was announced at my school, the playwrights skewed mostly white and male, the plays lauded as “the canon.” Little space was made for writers of color, and the few glimmers of representation were advocated by the few professors of color.
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