As we’ve all known for too many years to count, Black folks are seen on Broadway stages but don’t have many places behind-the-scenes as producers, general managers, company managers and stage managers.
Well, there is a nonprofit that is trying to rectify that situation. Begun in 2020, The Theatre Leadership Project launched a fellowship program in Fall 2021 to ensure that Blacks had a place in commercial theater leadership. TTLP sought to make sure Black people being in these positions became a reality and not a pipe dream through a three-year fellowship program.
Isabella Schiavon has been hired as a producing assistant at Orin Wolf Production, through a connection made by TTLP. BTC GM Fellow Devon Miller, after the first year of the fellowship, has been offered and accepted a full time role as associate GM at Foresight Theatrical. In its first three-year cycle TTLP has been the link with its fellows to jobs at 101 Productions, Bespoke Theatricals, Foresight Theatrical, RCI Theatricals, ShowTown Theatricals, and Thompson Turner Productions.
BTC co-founder and Artistic Director T. Oliver Reid said, “We realized that there was a necessary element that no one has talked about: long-term, sustained, paid apprenticeships and fellowships. Through Black Theatre Coalition’s Management Fellowships, in partnership with TTLP, we can make certain that when these general and company management fellows are given opportunities, they are ready for it.
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