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Thursday, November 26, 2015
Dramatists Guild Blasts Directors Who Cast Characters "Outside His or Her Obvious Race, Gender"
Breaking Character: Recent controversy over casting non-white characters in stage productions has prompted the Dramatists Guild to issue a position paper opposing “casting a character outside his or her obvious race, gender or implicit characteristics. To do so without meaningful consultation with the writer is both a moral and a legal breach” of the DG contract.
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