Community Theatre

In her study of gender parity in Northeast Ohio community theatre, Christine Wright defined community theatres as “nonequity theatres, those not affiliated with colleges or universities, and those that don’t pay their actors.” In content throughout this section, you’ll find different definitions of and intersections with the term, from a deep-dive into a cross-cultural theatre project in India to a personal reckoning with the term as an alternative to the toxicity of “professional.”