Members of the improv community have begun to organize and demand change at their home theaters in regards to equality, diversity, and racist work cultures
UCB Sunset in Los Angeles. Photo: CBS Photo Archive/CBS via Getty Images After the killing of George Floyd in May and the resulting Black Lives Matter protests across the country, members of the improv community have begun to organize and demand change at their home theaters in regards to equality, diversity, and racist work cultures.
Upright Citizens Brigade After Zollar’s Twitter thread about her unpaid work as a diversity coordinator on June 3, other members of the UCB community began sharing their experiences of racism at the theater. This included Native performers Kelly Lynne and Joey Clift as well as Black performers like Shaun Diston, who outlined the tokenization of Black students and performers at the theater in a post on Instagram. “This is a common experience for people of color at UCB.
Prior to the UCB 4’s announcement, members of the UCB community had already been organizing toward actionable goals. On June 15, a group of diverse veteran UCB performers announced on Twitter the launch of a new initiative called Project Rethink, in which they demanded to be directly involved with developing the way UCB is structured moving forward.
Second City Dewayne Perkins’s widely circulated Twitter thread, which outlined his experiences with racism at Second City, prompted other performers and alums from the theater to speak out as well, including Ali Barthwell, Aasia LaShay Bullock, and Shantira Jackson. On June 4, the day after Perkins’s thread, the theater announced that its longtime CEO Andrew Alexander would resign from his position. “The Second City cannot begin to call itself anti-racist.
The Second City responded with an open letter of its own on June 11. “Over the last few days, we have read and heard condemnations of the Second City’s culture and work environment shared by our BIPOC, Latinx, and LGBTQIA+ communities. We hear you, and we apologize for the extraordinary pain, trauma, and erasure that you have experienced. The Second City has long defended itself behind the excuse of upholding ‘tradition.’ That ends now,” the letter stated.
While Halpern wrote that she will commit to the changes demanded in the Change.org petition, the future of the theater is financially uncertain. “Every day that we cannot open, the financial situation gets worse, and there is only so much time we have before the business will not be able to return … Regarding all seven of the petition’s demands, we only ask for your patience while we try to stabilize the future viability of the theater,” she wrote.
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