photo credit: Ruthie Stephens At a time when most theatre folks are looking for ways to fill their days, Joanna Carpenter has been busy. She’s meeting me between meetings as the grassroots organization she started last year continues to evolve. “We’re kind of off to the races this year,” she tells me. “We are going …

I’d like to start this article by thanking everybody who’s been following along—and to apologize for taking a month-long hiatus from this project. A lot happened last month, most notably an insurrection against American democracy…and in the wake of that, it felt crude and tone-deaf to ask people to read my blog, so I took …