Lessons from the BIPOC Critics Lab at Five

HowlRound Theatre Commons: As a freelance critic of color who works in a field where Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) voices are often excluded, I wanted to build a space that disrupted traditional paths into arts journalism. In 2020, I started the BIPOC Critics Lab, a free, fully digital training program for emerging critics who meet weekly on Zoom over ten weeks for workshops on craft, ethics, experimentation, and industry advice.