Protect the Artist PHL

Artists protecting Artists. Holding institutions accountable and promoting (long overdue) systematic changes. We are stronger togther. Join us!

[Wendy Rosenfield @WendyRosenfield]

A few things that didn't make it into my Walnut Street Theatre #DEI article in @broadstreview, a thread. #Philly #theatre #theater @Theatre_Critics
1) The company replaced its upcoming performance of On Your Feet with Always...Patsy Cline.

[Broad Street Review @broadstreview]

'Is there a place for me?'
Many months later, how has the Walnut Street Theatre answered a community rallying for #equity?
https://t.co/UgxAO3giXQ #Philadelphia #Theater

[Broad Street Review @broadstreview]

“A lot of amazing, incredible, and talented Black artists, Asian artists, trans artists, Latino artists ... all live here, but they leave because they’re not given opportunities."
An Nichols talks with @PTAPhilly's Jenna Pinchbeck:
https://t.co/cT9yQnCKjK #theater #DEI

[Broad Street Review @broadstreview]

“A lot of amazing, incredible, and talented Black artists, Asian artists, trans artists, Latino artists ... all live here, but they leave because they’re not given opportunities."
An Nichols talks with @PTAPhilly's Jenna Pinchbeck:
https://t.co/cT9yQnCKjK #theater #DEI

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

*questionable source is Brandi Baldwin, who led the DEI workshop: https://t.co/h5RARZ9Ydw

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

What action steps will you be taking after today's DEI training @WalnutStTheatre ? One workshop led by a questionable source does not change make. #accountability

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

@WendyRosenfield @thedoctorbrandi Here's some info on Brandi Baldwin tho - https://t.co/h5RARZ9Ydw

[Broad Street Review @broadstreview]

After a summer of protest and invitations to dialogue that went ignored by the @WalnutStTheatre, @PTAPhilly organizers took their message to the Walnut’s 2021 opening night. @WendyRosenfield was there:
https://t.co/95CPqxLwVr

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

Coverage from last night's rally!

[The Philadelphia Inquirer @PhillyInquirer]

Performers and community members protested the Walnut Street Theatre’s opening night as a follow-up to a series of concerns raised this past summer about discriminatory and exploitative treatment of artists and staff at the prestigious theatre company. https://t.co/wL5AEqv6QR

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

Join us tonight at 6pm at Walnut Street Theatre. We support all artists involved in tonight's production, this is about structural change and systematic accountability. Visit https://t.co/FjOurGqt5L for more info

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

Yesterday WST's instagram comments on a show promo post were enabled for about 4 hours. We are still waiting to hear what has been done in the past 18 months to address systematic mistreatment of marginalized artists. We demand accountability. #ptaphilly #protecttheartist

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

We're not stopping here. Keep talking to your friends, your colleagues, your family. The questions we are asking, the demands we are making, and the responses we've received are not exclusive to one organization or one city. We protect us. 💙

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

@AmericanTheatre @CameronPKelsall Thank you @CameronPKelsall and @AmericanTheatre - this is just the beginning, please join us 💙 #protecttheartist #protecttheartistphl

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

We acknowledge the lands of the Lenape People, now called Philadelphia through colonization. We are grateful to the land for its resources and the space it gives us to create.

[Broad Street Review @broadstreview]

Two weeks ago, the activists of a newly formed Philly coalition, @PTAPhilly took their message to the streets with a protest outside the @WalnutStTheatre.
An Nichols and @writer_Alaina_J were there:
https://t.co/Fuw8aUchiZ

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

@krisvire @treygraham Follow @PTAPhilly for all things Ball-Nut Skreet #crackthenut

[Protect the Artist PHL @PTAPhilly]

Help us get to 1,000 signatures this week!
Demands and pledges in the petition, if you have questions ask us. We are artists protecting artists. Join us. #protecttheartist https://t.co/qe1pzTgcoT

[Broad Street Review @broadstreview]

One week ago on June 18, the activists of a newly formed Philly coalition, @PTAPhilly took their message to the streets with a protest outside the @WalnutStTheatre.
An Nichols and @writer_Alaina_J were there:
https://t.co/Fuw8aUchiZ

[Broad Street Review @broadstreview]

"So here’s what the Walnut executives taught me, then and now. When you ignore or disparage people newer to the field, you ignore and disparage the future..."
@writer_Alaina_J on her time as a @WalnutStTheatre apprentice:
https://t.co/ke4WYquePV #theater #leadership