" to include "a minimum of 25% Blak, Indigenous, People of Colour, gender diverse, disabled and body diverse artists working in our companies and on our projects", as well as "working towards a minimum 25% of annually programmed work that is created and led by BIPOC artists".
More than 60 performers applied for the AOC Initiative, from which 30 semi-finalists were selected by a panel of industry practitioners. "I wasn't the African American belt-y girl that my skin colour told them I had to be. I tried so hard and failed so hard to be that."in 1999, Havea said she had found her truest musical theatre self.Havea told ABC she has more in common with Hugh Jackman's take on Curly than many of female music theatre figures she's expected to emulate.
But Carroll believes creatives in his part of the sector have a responsibility to model how musicals can be cast and re-imagined to be more inclusive, and to prove to commercial producers that it makes work "more interesting and alive".Michael Cassel, the Australian producer of Hamilton, is leading the shift to diversity and inclusion in the major commercial musical space.
MCG approached MEAA, the industry union, to negotiate a new enterprise bargaining agreement for performers working across their productions, and to create a 'cultural consultant' role within the team. There are multiple cultures represented in the Hamilton cast, and Briggs and Pradier say they are committed to advocating for everybody.