I am so pleased to announce that I have joined Mint Theatre Company as a consulting dramaturg for their newsletter series, "Lost Voices in Black History." In this position, I will co-author a monthly newsletter that features a Black playwright that our cannon has forgotten. This is part of a larger effort to make historic Black writing more accessible to a wider audience by introducing readers to the lives and triumphs of these inspiring artists. Visit https://minttheater.org

I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, I believe in its power to heal, “to hold the mirror as ’twere up to nature,” to the truths we uncover, to the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities. All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. —August Wilson, 1996. August Wilson’s 1996 speech “The Ground on Which I Stand” was a moment of reckoning for the world of theatre, which