Study Credits ‘Hamilton’ For Boosting Cast Diversity But Says Gains Insufficient For Industry Hiring Problems
deadline.comGreg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe first Actors’ Equity diversity and inclusion report since 2017 finds “modest improvement” in the hiring of actors and stage managers of color in the last three years, but describes the slight shift as “extremely gradual, inconsistent and not enough to change longtime problems in the industry.”In fact, the increased representation of people of color in the nation’s theater industry can be attributed solely to multiple productions of Hamilton, the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical that casts non-white actors as the nation’s Founding Fathers.In addition, women, the report found, continue to suffer from a gender wage gap, and trans, non-binary or gender-nonconforming Equity members usually earn less than.
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