As theatre makers confront a rapidly shifting landscape – one of them, a professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, saw her entire department eliminated, all student productions ended, and her position moved to communications – they find inspiration and ideas with each other. “Getting to be in a room and talking with other artists who know the same kind of stress and extra weight that you’re feeling as a person of color, that was probably the most special part of the experience,” one said of her time with the Rising Leaders of Color cohort. – American Theatre