Lookingglass Theatre Company has always harbored magnificent dreams — chief among them, to enfranchise and empower its artists. We are a company created by an Ensemble of these artists and are governed by that Ensemble and our Board of Directors. But the insularity that developed from building this organization together and making art from within such a tight-knit group, combined with our determination to find consensus, has often delayed change and growth. That insularity has been both our strength and our weakness. It can no longer be an excuse. For it has resulted in us perpetuating institutionalized racism, and benefiting from a system that is profoundly unjust to historically marginalized communities including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). 

While we have been slow to adopt the kind of change which is demanded of us, we have also been available to it, and in our best moments have progressed toward it. For we believe that our work and our lives are infinitely more complex, rewarding, illuminating, and nearer to truth when we have a wider variety of human experiences in our room, at our table, and on our stage. Therefore, with the conviction that today is always the best day for change, and with the hope that, in so doing, we begin living out our dreams with fuller authenticity, we commit ourselves to the following Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion guidelines, which have been developed by a task force of representatives from our Board, Associates Board, Staff and Ensemble.