Quoted: Patrick Sims, founding director of Theatre for Cultural and Social Awareness, said it’s important that wider audiences engage with the work of playwrights of color. “You can go through lists of amazing artists, playwrights, storytellers who have captured the experience of their people, and yet those experiences don’t reach the masses… the way they have the potential to,” said Sims, the deputy vice chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion and the Elzie Higginbottom vice provost & chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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