Who is invited to your space, the space you create when you make a show. If you have barriers to your theatrical space to a particular community then it is as good as saying you are not inviting them. So, for example, if you don’t have ASL interpreted performances, then I have to ask, ‘Why do you not want Deaf people at your theatre?’ And I think that’s a fundamental change for me, to frame that question that way...

Marjorie Chan
Artistic Director, Cahoots Theatre Company
January 28, 2016

The TEAM that you collect around you is so essential...it’s been really wonderful to engage designers on the creative team and the director and the artists and the ASL interpreters and then to have our project manager and our Deaf community consultant all really with the same fabric in their being. It’s so important to have that as a foundation because when you’ve got that, anything is possible... moving toward the same end goal and that’s really what you need, to make change happen.

Kate Ann Vandermeer
General Manager, Cahoots Theatre Company
January 28, 2016