Company member Pun Bandhu is quoted in a recent American Theatre article by KT Shorb examining the state of funding for theatres of color. Pun references the Asian American Performers Action Coalition Visibility Report and the funding mechanisms and size and eligibility criteria that have often disqualified theatres of color from access to funding.

Company member Reynaldo Piniella joins the cast of the Broadway production of Trouble in Mind with Roundabout Theatre Company, understudying the role of John Nevins. Now playing through January 9, 2022.

Congratulations to our colleagues as they return to Broadway to re-open their respective shows this fall! Rachel Leslie returned November 12 to the cast of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre; Myra Lucretia Taylor returned October 8 as Gran Georgeann in TINA – The Tina Turner Musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre; William Youmans returned October 5 to the cast of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Shubert Theatre; and Ato Blankson-Wood and Irene Sofia Lucio reprise their roles in Slave Play starting previews November 23 and running for a limited 8-week engagement at the August Wilson Theatre.

Vivienne directs her company’s first in-person production in 19 months in Chapel Hill, NC. From Vivienne: “Thornton Wilder said The Skin of Our Teeth works best in a time of crisis. He began working on the play in the middle of World War II. The last time I worked on this play, it was the month before 9/11 and the play has stayed with me in that resonance for twenty years. Coming out of our current crisis, I wanted a play that could hold all of what has happened to us, all that we’re feeling together about resilience and starting again.”