Help Us Create a Plan for Lasting Change at WebCo!

I support my peers with everything I have. I am so lucky to have been able to attend school with every single one of you. No question or hesitation, I stand with you.

Thank you for this. This is a tremendous time and I’m overwhelmingly grateful to be a part of it. I feel change is coming and I honor your voices. I will do anything I can to change our ways and to change my own personal conduct, actions, thoughts and beliefs. I acknowledge and will reject my privileged part in the systems built on injustice and racism. I support any action to tear these barriers down. Thank you Michael & Kiah for your courage, hope and advocacy. The greatest gift a teacher receives is to learn.

Class of ‘10

Thank you Michael and Kiah. <3

This issue is a large part of what drove me to leave Webster before graduating.

I loved my time at WebCo. I am all for growth and change and more acceptance from this important place. We can all do better!

We stand with you. We are ready to change and to take the necessary steps needed to create a much better Conservatory for all students, faculty, and staff of color. Thank you!

DO BETTER!

I'm all in -- hopeful that I'm not too late

I am the parent of an alumni. Would love to see Webster act on these items!

It is imperative to acknowledge the massive inequality in the conservatories design programs. While I was a student at Webster (2012 - 2016) the DTSM Program was largely white. This pattern continues to repeat itself in the professional marketplace as well. I urge the current Conservatory leadership to adhere to the proposals in this letter. Doing so would not only make WebCo a leader in theater education but would also start reinforcing the foundation that BIPOC need in order to be given a seat at the table in the professional marketplace.

Class of 2011

I am grateful for your tenacity. For your fight for truth. It’s time our voices be heard. To have opinions and to not be feared. Thank you for leading the way. All these vulnerable souls uniting is hopeful and restores my faith! Thank you!

Solidarity Forever. BIPOC Matter. <3

Stop doing diverse shows and whitewashing the casts. Stop touching BIPOC hair. Stop being offensive when it comes to learning dialects. Learn peoples names! RECRUIT! And THEN do the shows that you’re so desperate to do without a whitewashed cast.

Class of 2009 here to support! Thank you.

Please hear and make the painfully necessary physical changes outlined in this petition. Make uncomfortable conversations an expectation, a requirement, of being an artist. Of being a student in your classrooms. As you prove to us in freshman year in an incredibly viscerally and powerful lesson in movement, physically digging into the discomfort is where true growth, learning, and change actually happen. You teach us to listen openly and actively respond/change/grow in scenes and songs. Which also shapes how we listen and respond in our every day lives Please actively respond and listen to this. Fight and find longevity in your response and change. I love WebCo. Their teachings guided and taught me to be an artist. A human with opinions and passion and a work ethic like no other. I have faith the professors will practice what they so passionately teach us and collaborate by listening with empathy, kindness, without unproductive/warranted pride, and a fire for change.

We need to do better. DTSM really, REALLY, needs to do better. It's crazy that I can only think of 3 people who are poc that were in school when I was in the DTSM program.

I’m entering WebCo as a freshman this year and I will always be there to support and do what’s right for the people of color who have been oppressed in our industry.

Thankful someone is finally bringing these very apparent issues into the light