Theatres of Color Fight Marginalization – Coalition says companies face bias from media, audiences, and grantors. From: backstage.com

Black and Latino theatres face marginalization from the media, grantors, and audiences and companies must band together if they are to survive, according to many of the nearly 400 participants at a town hall meeting at the Little Shubert Theatre in Manhattan May 18.

It was the first public meeting by the Coalition of Theatres of Color, an alliance of 15 African-American and Latino companies that was founded in 2004 by Oscar-nominated actor Ruby Dee and her late husband, the actor and activist Ossie Davis, to unify low-budget minority theatres in New York State. It meets once a month to discuss common administrative issues such as budgets, space, and advertising. The town hall meeting was the first public presentation of issues faced by the CTC as a whole.”*

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