Like many others, Covid19 forced me to retreat into unemployed isolation at home. This period allowed me to reflect on my journey, my experiences, my practice and my values on and offstage. I could finally untangle and put a name on a number of things. These reflections turned into the following piece, that I first shared independently on my personal social media platforms.

. Last Thursday, I was part of the first panel Wake Up Call for Inclusion – Institutional Barriers and Individual Biases in the Performing Arts by CircusTalk, alongside fellow artists of color Johnathan Lee Iverson, Joseph Pinzon, Noeli Acoba and Marco Motta, and it all clicked. I believe times are changing, and that with the rise of more diverse voices and actors in the ...