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Casting call from Wirtz raises questions on racism in theatre
On April 28, the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts sent out a casting call to their email list. The call listed 15 available roles, but only one, at the very bottom, was for a woman of color who the call noted had to be “sensual.”
This casting call is neither atypical for the theatre industry as a whole, nor at Northwestern. The Wirtz Center sends out casting calls for both theatrical and outside films or projects nearly every other week. 
When Communication senior Alessandra Hernández received the April 28 call, she said she scanned the email for a role she could fill when she saw the listing for any woman of color who is “fiery.” For Hernández, the casting call suggested Wirtz didn’t care whether she was Black or Latinx, because they just needed their “token person of color.”.  ....

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