About the Project
Thursday, March 26th, from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
ZOOM | Livestream
To watch digitally, visit the Hollywood Fringe YouTube channel during or after the event.
To join in on the Zoom chat, reserve your ticket no later than 6:00 pm PT on the event day.
Learn from our brilliant panelists how to practice fully inclusive producing and intersectional approaches to personal stake in ending white supremacy in and out of the theatre space. From auditions & casting, community building, audience engagement, marketing, and show content. Recommended for new & veteran producers alike! This isn’t about white savior-ism, this is personal stake work, as it relates to multiracial spaces.
GOALS OF THIS EVENT
- - To build a shared understanding of racism and how it functions on interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels
- - To unpack systemic racism, white supremacy, and their effects on the theatre industry at large
- - To share tips and tools for challenging racism in theatre spaces
- - To identify how these issues affect our daily and work lives
- - To build a community understanding of how to decenter yourself in multiracial spaces, while also having a personal stake in ending white supremacy.
This workshop will include a learning session with definitions and resources, a facilitated conversation with white antiracist organizers, and a Q&A, where white artists can ask questions they may feel uncomfortable asking in multiracial spaces.
This workshop is centered around white artists, not to take power away form BIPOC, AAPI, MENA artists, but to alleviate the burden of education on those folks. Any artist, from any racial background, is welcome to attend.
There is a BIPOC affinity space, led by our Access Committee, to hear feedback in making Fringe a more inclusive space and build community together, available during the Festival! More info coming soon!
This event will have live captioning. To request live ASL interpretation, please email [email protected] at least 72 hours in advance, and we will provide one.
ABOUT OUR PANELISTS
Socks Whitmore (they/them) is a neuroqueer performer, creative, educator, producer, and otherwise professional overachiever. As a crossdisciplinary artist rooted in voice and text, their work spans from live performance to digital media to print — including theater, film, music, VO, games, poetry, essays, & more. As an organizer, Socks works with queer, trans, & disabled communities to create spaces built on radical compassion, accessibility, and joy. They are a co-founder & company manager of the all-trans polystylistic vocal collective 8TPS, the marketing & communications director at the gender-expansive Bolero Game Studio and the advocacy organization CIPA (the Creative & Independent Producers Alliance) and the 2024 recipient of Celebration Theatre’s Vibrant Voice Award. For those who are curious, they hold a BFA Performer-Composer degree from the California Institute of the Arts with minors in Digital Arts and Creative Writing. Learn more on their website, https://sockswhitmore.com.
Olivia Finnegan (she/her) is an LA local whose decade-long Fringe career defies a single job title: artist, producer, stage manager, volunteer coordinator, social media captain and, just once, mascot. She also spent 6 years running the Reykjavík Fringe Festival in Iceland and has served as a judge for 8 international Fringe festivals. Hollywood Fringe staked its claim as her first true Fringe love after she stumbled into a production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” at the inaugural HFF in 2010. She is also a yoga instructor and events marketing professional.
Rosie Glen-Lambert (she/her) is a bicoastal theatre director originally from Los Angeles currently based in Brooklyn. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of The Attic Collective, an award-winning Los Angeles based theatre company. Off-Broadway: and her Children (SoHo Playhouse). Regional: Associate Director Babbitt (Shakespeare Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse), Denim Doves (Sacred Fools Theatre Company). Other Theatre: Half-Life (HERE Arts Center), Swallows (La Mama), The Robots: A New Chamber Opera (Project [BLANK]), Iphigenia in Splott (The Attic Collective), I Decided I’m Fine: A Roach Play (The Attic Collective), The Last Croissant (The Attic Collective), What Happened to Where I’ve Been (The Attic Collective), Dead Dog’s Bone: A Birthday Play (The Attic Collective). Awards/Honors: Top Of Fringe 2025 and 2019 (Hollywood Fringe Festival), Directing Fellow 2025 (Moxie Arts Incubator Lab), Theatremacher 2020 (Alliance for Jewish Theatre). Affiliations: Member of The Kilroys, SDC Associate Member. MFA in Directing: UC San Diego. rosieglenlambert.com
