; she takes over from outgoing artistic director Philip Akin this summer.
“That is a beautiful place to me. That looks like progress; that looks like a better attempt at and execution of inclusion and not just lip service." This spring, director and choreographer Kimberley Rampersad, seen here, was promoted to that rank at the Shaw Festival.Mengesha says, too, that individual Black artists still have to carry the weight of representation on their shoulders in many theatre contexts.
“Leadership in theatre didn’t look like me until Weyni, two years ago,” Taitt says, noting it took her a long time to imagine herself running a company – and that she didn’t apply for the Cahoots job until she was encouraged to do so, despite having just come off a hit with her production ofMengesha, who took over a theatre company that underwent very public fallout for not pro-actively tackling sexism and racism in its culture, is glad to now have colleagues among Toronto’s artistic director...
GlobeArts How about you talk about LeslynLewis Trying to become our PRIME MINISTER!!! Art is cool but black people dominate arts and music for generations. Ms Lewis needs more MSM support and exposure!!