The Antiracist Theatre with Nicole Brewer

The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications,  The Antiracist Theatre with Nicole Brewer-  A Talkback, signing and live podcast recording.

About the Book 

 In The Antiracist Theatre, Nicole Brewer, theater director and acting faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and originator of the Antiracist Theatre model, offers a bold and deeply practical framework for transforming collaborative processes from the inside out. Rooted in  transformative justice core principles of harm reduction, harm prevention, and relationship repair, this book invites readers to develop their own antiracist theatre ethos and reimagine what collaboration, accountability, and care feels like in artistic spaces.

Part memoir, part self exploration, and loaded with practical tools The AntiRacist Theatre guides readers toward greater awareness of position, power, and privilege while disrupting the systems and behaviors that perpetuate harm throughout the performing arts.

Written with honesty, rigor, warmth, and humor, The Antiracist Theatre lovingly welcomes readers into deeper responsibility and care for how people move through processes. Rather than offering quick fixes, Brewer presents her framework as a healing technology and ongoing, collective commitment to building healthier, more liberatory creative spaces.

For artists, educators, students, administrators, and anyone invested in the future of performance, The Antiracist Theatre is both an invitation and a call to action because the work of liberation belongs to all of us.

About  the Author

Nicole Brewer is a theater director whose work has been seen at theaters such as Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, and Folger Theatre. She is an educator with more than 18 years of teaching experience. Brewer is notably known as the originator of the internationally recognized Antiracist Theatre (ART) model. A leading voice in the movement to transform theater culture through accountability, care, and liberation-centered practices, Brewer serves as acting faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

For more than sixteen years, Brewer has developed and facilitated anti-racist and anti-oppressive training methodologies that challenge harmful industry norms and reimagine what collaborative artistic processes can be. Her work has been featured at conferences and institutions across the United States, Canada, and the UK, including workshops with Shakespeare's Globe and the University of Cambridge.

A dynamic speaker known for blending rigor, humor, honesty, and deep compassion, Brewer has taught at Howard University, her alma mater, the National Theater Institute, and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, among others. Her widely discussed essay, “Why Equity Diversity and Inclusion Are Obsolete,” was named one of the most-read articles of 2019 by American Theatre.

In her debut book, The Antiracist Theatre, Nicole Brewer invites readers to consider the cost of business as usual and reclaim their power to challenge and shift extractive, exclusionary, and exploitative processes. Brewer creates space for readers to reimagine how creative spaces can function in healthier, more humane, and accountable ways. The book offers practical tools for building healthier creative environments where everyone can thrive.

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