Identity-Conscious Casting
Moving Beyond Color-Blind and Color-Conscious Casting
Director Lavina Jadhwani and casting director Victor Vazquez contemplate how identity and inauthenticity manifest on stage, and the limits of 'colour-blind casting'.
“Here are the givens of the text and here are the givens of how the artists working on it identify. Both of those things have value in the space.”
“Color-blind” says to me: the truths of the text matter and everything else doesn’t matter."