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As a volunteer-centered organization, we are engaging in a thoughtful restructuring of organization-wide governance and leadership, including boards and committees in order to prioritize anti-racist and anti-oppressive values. As our community begins the transition back to more in-person performances, we felt it was critical to make some changes to the nomination process for Helen Hayes judges and provide bias-awareness training to them before we resume adjudicating productions. This is a good time to reevaluate our process given COVID’s impact on live performances and the work we have been doing to consider the biases that have been part of our institutional systems.