The LA Arts Standards document was created by a collective of Los Angeles theatremakers and artists who are dedicated to creating and implementing long standing systemic change within the theatre community. Building off of the work of We See You White American Theatre, and answering a call to action that was blaring in the summer of 2020, this ever changing document was created. With consultation from various BIPOC creatives in the area and beyond, we forged forward in an attempt to create a document that brings attention to the ways equitable changes should be implemented. This document challenges, and calls upon the Los Angeles theatre institutions to invest their future efforts in establishing foundational and functional change. 

It is our aim that all theatre companies sign onto the document,  implement these standards themselves, and add their own as well. We will use these standards as a working guide in establishing change within.

Pre-Launch Endorsers

  • Ammunition Theatre Company

  • Artists at Play

  • Assembly Theatre Company

  • Black Lives Black Words

  • Breath of Fire

  • Celebration Theatre

  • Company of Angels

  • East West Players

  • Hero Theatre

  • Independent Shakespeare Company

  • Latino Theatre Company

  • Lower Depth Theatre

  • MACHA Theatre Co.

  • Ophelia’s Jump Productions

  • Playwrights’ Arena

  • Scribe Stages

  • Support Black Theatre

  • TEADA

  • Towne Street Theatre

NEWLY Committed

  • A Noise Within

  • Boston Court Theater

  • Coeurage Ensemble

  • Center Theatre Group

  • Cornerstone Theater Company

  • Dean Productions Theater Company

  • Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA

  • Foolish Productions

  • Fugitive Kind

  • IMPRO Theatre

  • LA LGBT Center

  • Native Voices at The Autry

  • Pasadena Playhouse

  • Playground-LA

  • Playwrights Arena

  • Pothos Arts & Theater House

  • The Vagrancy

  • The Victory Theatre

 

Committed by oct. 1st

  • Academy for Children’s Theatre (ACT-1)

  • After Hours Theatre Co.

  • Antaeus Theatre Company

  • The Braid

  • Celebration Theatre *

  • Chase What Flies

  • Coin & Ghost

  • Echo Theater Co.

  • Hollywood Fringe Festival

  • IAMA Theater

  • Independent Shakespeare Company *

  • Infinite Jest Theatre Company

  • The Inkwell Theater

  • MeetCute Los Angeles

  • The Open Fist Theatre Co.

  • Ophelia’s Jump Productions *

  • The Pack Theater

  • Project Nongenue

  • Rogue Artists Ensemble

  • SORORITY

  • Theatre of Note

  • Watts Village Theater Company *

  • Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum

* - Endorsed as well as committed.