Throughout the Fall 2021 semester, students in Ashley Lucas' Latina/o Theatre for Social Change course worked together to research, devise, rehearse and perform a play about diversity, equity, and inclusion issues on U-M's campus. They focused on the Theatre & Drama Department where undergraduates in the Fall of 2020 had gone on strike to demand more diversity in the roles being offered in the department’s season of plays, more people of color on faculty, and greater representation of diverse voices and plays in the core curriculum of the department, among other things. After much research, including interviews with theatre faculty and students, the Latina/o Theatre students in this class decided to focus on the ways in which faculty and students communicate with one another in times of conflict over diversity issues. The resulting fictionalized play, Everybody Needs an Accountabiliabuddy, was performed at a Faculty Advisory Committee meeting on December 7, 2020, and later recorded.
View the recording of the performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bon84zfVMNg&t=42s
