Our Programs
Training built by and for Black and Brown artists, ready to run at your theatre, and collaborations made with arts organizations like yours.
Bring a program to your stageTRAINING
Free programs built by and for Black and Brown artists. Each one can run at your theatre, school or organization.
DIRECTORS CIRCLE
A free, self-led directing lab with guest directors and a theatre match.
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A free course on building a musical from the ground up.
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Voice and music classes at Boys and Girls Clubs and Pace Center for Girls, with Central Florida Vocal Arts.
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Work made with partner institutions for a multicultural audience. These show what we can build with you.
ONIJA
Portraiture and poetry by Central Florida artists of the African diaspora.
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Five short plays by Idris Goodwin, read live online and directed by five Black women.
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Post-show conversations that center Black and Brown women in theatre.
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What the BTGM community does for its own.
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Live conversations with working artists, from self-tape coaches to Broadway performers.
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Open meetings where members hear from leadership, vote on proposals and say what they need.
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WHITE SUPREMACY IN REGIONAL THEATRE
Rising to the Challenge
A presentation and facilitated conversation led by Executive Director Mandi Jo John. She speaks from her own lens as a Black actor who has worked in nearly every Equity house in Central Florida, and asks the room to be as honest as she is. It goes further than a standard equity, diversity and inclusion training: the group names where white supremacy lives in its own organization and what it will change.
- Your lens. A written thought exercise about a production you loved and who was in the room.
- A shared definition. What white supremacy means beyond overt racism, and why everyone absorbs it.
- How it shows up at work. The characteristics of white supremacy culture, such as perfectionism, urgency and power hoarding, with questions for your own organization.
- A case study. A real exchange from the American theatre in 2020, read aloud and discussed.
- Through my lens. What it has been like to work as a Black biracial actor in Central Florida.
- What you can change. Actions for boards and leadership, built on the obligation to dissent.
- Past host. Garden Theatre, 2020.
Bring it to your stage
Host Directors Circle or Musical Theatre Anatomy for your own community, or partner with us on something new. Choose how much of it you want us to carry.
USE THE CURRICULUM
Session plans and materials your own teaching artists or curators can lead.
BOOK OUR PRACTITIONERS
The artists who built and taught the programs lead a cohort at your theatre or online.
COLLABORATE WITH US
Partnerships and collaborations, like ONIJA and Theatre Sparks, shaped with your arts organization for a multicultural audience.