Cover art of the Radical Hospitality Issue: an illustration of a headless person writing at their desk with multiple faces in boxes floating around where their head would be.
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Business and Career
On Radical Hospitality, Part One
May 01, 2021
Business and Career
photo collage of Cara Reichel, Rhiana Yazzie, Teresa Coleman Wash, and Christine Toy Johnson
Cara Reichel, Rhiana Yazzie, Teresa Coleman Wash, and Christine Toy Johnson .

Christine Toy Johnson: In Season Two of the Guild’s Podcast TALKBACK, we spoke about access and the many things that can mean. I want to talk with each one of you today about a concept called radical hospitality, which to me is the ultimate kind of access, where a space is created in which people not only feel welcomed but also that they belong. This has not always been the case in our theatrical spaces, of course, and I’m always wondering how we might be able to move closer to that ideal.

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Christine Toy Johnson
Christine Toy Johnson

is a Tony and Obie award-honored writer, actor, and advocate for inclusion. Treasurer of the DG, chair of the Guild’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Access Committee, host of the Guild’s podcast TalkBack on the Broadway Podcast Network. More at christinetoyjohnson.com

Cara Reichel
Cara Reichel

is the producing artistic director of NYC’s Prospect Theater Company, which she co-founded in 1998. She is a leader in the field of new musical theatre development. With fellow Prospect founding artist Peter Mills, she has co-created over a dozen new musicals, including the Off-Broadway hit The Hello Girls (Outer Critics Circle & Drama Desk Award nominations, cast album: Broadway Records). www.CaraReichel.com

Rhiana Yazzie
Rhiana Yazzie

is a 2025 United States Artist Fellow. She is also a Lanford Wilson and Steinberg Award winning playwright, a director, and filmmaker. A Navajo Nation citizen (Ta’neeszahnii dóó Táchii’nii), she is the Artistic Director of New Native Theatre, which she started in 2009 as a response to the lack of connection and professional opportunities between Twin Cities theaters and the Native community; it is the recipient of a 2023 Headwaters Bush Prize for social justice.

Teresa Coleman Wash
Teresa Coleman Wash

is a producer, writer, and founding artistic director for the Bishop Arts Theatre Center in Dallas, TX. She is the 2019 recipient of Theatre Communications Group’s prestigious Peter Zeisler Memorial Award for artistic integrity and ingenuity.

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