Her works needs to reach out to the people and not exclude some because they are too young or too old. The challenge is how to bring various communities into the theatre, how to diversify. The casting pool of minority actors is limited - you have to share with ethnically specific theatres. You have no budget or institutional history to get the corporate support that the big theatres get. OS -The work responds to the needs of the community.
People can see themselves represented on stage.
Sometimes you need to put on ethnically specific theatre for your community members, and sometimes for those outside your community. Some organizations fail because they don't know how to make it to the next level. JA -Sometimes there is a quality of ensemble that can be developed in the small local theatres that can't be found on the big theatre stages because they cast from out of town and the very talented individual actors don't get a chance to know each other and work together in a way that the audience can grasp and share. African American women who were right for a role were not available, so the role went to a Chinese American actress. Seattle has a very generous theatre community.