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Making a Statement about Diversity at the Humana Festival of New American Plays by HowlRound

By Dani Snyder-Young. Across the festival, every production I saw had a multi-racial cast; "brownsville song" and "Steel Hammer" deal explicitly with race and cast accordingly, and all the others include actors of color in roles that did not require racially-specific casting. As a result, the festival includes multiple representations of inter-racial couples and multi-racial families, all treated as unremarkable and …

SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:02PM on April 17, 2014

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