Who We Are?
Creating In Color is a meeting place for BIPOC who work in music in the theatre. That includes all musical positions: musical directors, arrangers, pit and session musicians, audio engineers, composers, lyricists, copyists, rehearsal pianists, programmers, etc. Anyone who is a person of color who is involved in the creation of music for the theatre is welcome here. Connected to this website is a Facebook discussion group, also named Creating In Color. Here you will find a growing directory of music makers of color to expand your networking and hiring capabilities. We are here to encourage a deeper connection among all of us and we are here to collectively hold the theatre responsible for doing better by all of its artists of color. In the past we have not been allowed access to tell our own stories on stage and we want to be part of changing that paradigm and creating greater opportunity for all of us behind the table and in the rooms where decisions are made. Music teams on Broadway, regionally, educationally and around the world remain overwhelmingly white and here is where we begin to make the world of the people who create and maintain the musical lifeblood of our work more closely resemble the world outside of the theatre’s doors.
Who We are?
Creating In Color is a meeting place for BIPOC who work in music in the theatre. That includes all musical positions: musical directors, arrangers, pit and session musicians, audio engineers, composers, lyricists, copyists, rehearsal pianists, programmers, etc. Anyone who is a person of color who is involved in the creation of music for the theatre is welcome here. Connected to this website is a facebook discussion group, also named Creating In Color. Here you will find a growing directory of music makers of color to expand your networking and hiring capabilities. We are here to encourage personal and professional growth and to hopefully encourage a deeper connection among all of us, and we are here to collectively hold the theatre responsible for doing better by all of its artists of color. In the past we have not even been allowed access to tell our own stories on the stage, and we want to be a part of changing that paradigm and creating greater opportunity for all of us behind the table and in the rooms where decisions are made. Music teams on Broadway, regionally, educationally, and around the world remain overwhelmingly white and here is where we begin to make the world of the people who create and maintain the musical lifeblood of our work more closely resemble the world outside of the theatre’s doors.
FOUNDED AND ADMINISTERED BY JOHN BRONSTON
John Bronston served as the musical director of the last North American tour of Hair and has served as the associate musical director of tours of Ain’t Misbehaving, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and Five Guys Named Moe. He has worked with major regional theatres including Long Wharf Theatre, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Florida Studio Theatre, and the Barter Theatre and has worked on developing new works in Manhattan with New York Theatre Barn, New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), The Women’s Project, Music Theatre Factory, and others. His compositions have been heard off-Broadway and in regional theatre productions and festivals and he has served as an adjunct professor at Earlham College and Kean University as well as working as a teaching artist in New York and for Stagedoor Manor.